Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch

It’s an interesting experiment, albeit one that doesn’t make much sense to me from a product perspective. I guess producing the content at a loss is something Cloudflare is uniquely positioned to do. And it’s probably a good chance to dogfood some video delivery products.<p>Personally, I would almost always prefer a blog format over a live segment. If it is a live segment, then I’d hope I can at least watch the recording later.<p>I’m curious about engagement. Is anyone watching this? Does anyone seem to actually care?

Here&#x27;s the original motivation for the project:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-tv&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.cloudflare.com&#x2F;ladies-and-gentlemen-cloudflare-...</a>

Very cool for multiple reasons! The first is that it seems a lightweight and straightforward approach to launch first and thereafter iteratively improve, e.g. using Zoom to push live video to Cloudflare. Secondly the content, while all Cloudflare-related, seems useful to learn about internet infrastructure, etc.<p>Perhaps the elephant in the room is &quot;what&#x27;s next&quot;? Seems like it could at least become a Twitch competitor, if not also to YouTube if Cloudflare is able to figure out the monetization, privacy and copyright aspects.

Given all the important things sitting behind Cloudflare, how do you justify having Zoom installed on employee machines?

&gt; When the live programming ends at 1100, the video experience would break and the user would need to hit refresh to see the next show on the schedule.<p>If that was the only problem, why wouldn&#x27;t changing the stream with a small amount of JS have worked rather than having to add a muxing layer in front of the streams?

Is cloudflare at a scale where it would be possible for them to provide cheap enough prices on video hosting and bandwidth to enable someone to build a profitable YouTube alternative on top of that? Assuming that a youtube competitor can get to similar scale and make similar revenue.

I can&#x27;t wait for this to become available as part of Cloudflare Stream!<p>I need a simple API that would allow both a basic user with browser and a webcam, or an advanced one with OBS (RMTP...) to just live-stream as part of my product. And building everything at scale is just super painful.

Seems very close to &quot;rolling your own (internet) TV station using open source and Zoom&quot;.<p>That&#x27;s exciting that it&#x27;s become so accessible.<p>Of course the hard part then is having a producer running the content all day + getting enough content.

Hmmm.. works in Chrome but not Firefox for me. Firefox plays the live stream but not recorded videos.

Will there be any support for DRM or video protection?

&gt; Cloudflare TV is a 24x7 TV channel that takes you behind-the-scenes and let’s you hear directly from the builders working on your favorite Cloudflare products.<p>So 24x7 monitoring of developers&#x27; screens overseen by the <i>world</i>? RIP devs X_X