FITC Toronto 2015

2015-04-12 00:00:00 2015-04-15 00:00:00 America/Toronto FITC Toronto 2015 A three-day professional celebration of the best the world has to offer in design, web development, media and innovation in creative technologies. Toronto FITC Toronto

Overview

As progressive as the web is today, there are still many major limitations around delivering live video across all connected platforms. In this presentation Matt Fisher, Video Playback Engineer at Twitch, will discuss how Twitch manages to deliver live content over the web to over 60 million visitors per month over a variety of platforms and devices.

In this presentation, you’ll gain a better understanding of how live video is delivered via the web and where many of the limitations are found. By using the Twitch.tv platform as example, you will get a much clearer understanding of each of the important steps in getting video from a users PC or console to millions of viewers around the world.

Objective

Understand the process and limitations of delivering live video content to users all around the world via modern web browsers.

Target Audience

Web, video and content creators and developers.