YouTube has had their live service available for a few years now, in experimental mode, for concerts or other events. Â It was just this month that YouTube showed off this service as available to it’s users. Â This service provides an interface for it’s users to broadcast a live stream onto the internet, basically how Justin.TV or Ustream work.
Originally the service was all Flash based, and because iOS devices can’t play Flash, we were missing out. Â Not anymore. Â Thanks to YTLive, a new webapp that has just been released, we can now watch those live videos right from our device. Â All that is needed to do is past the link of the YouTube Live video into the text box in the webapp, and hit the watch button. Â The app then converts it and you can watch the embedded video. Â So hoping that YTLive’s servers can handle the load, this may be a viable option.
The one thing that worries me is that it appears that the first test of this app will be the Royal Wedding in Britain. Â If YTLive’s server crash from load, that would be a bit disappointing. Â You can head over to their site here, and try it out for yourself. Â Be sure to browse it from your iOS device and on Safari.