How it works
- Plan it in your agenda. Add an entry and make it a Live stream: a start, an end or none (“runs as long as it runs”), where it happens and who is in it. It sits in your agenda and your calendar feed like everything else.
- Give it its stream address. Your streaming setup gives you a playback address (an HLS playlist, ending in
.m3u8, on https). Put it on the agenda entry; that is all the page needs. - Put it on your page. Add a Live stream block and pick the entry. From then on the page shows the countdown, the live player or the ending — by itself, at the right moment.
What you get
- A countdown that ticks to the second, with the day and time in each visitor's own time zone.
- A player that works in every current browser, on a phone or a laptop.
- Your page, your design: the block takes your page's fonts and colours, as a full-width stage or a card.
- Streams without an end time count as live for six hours after they start, then read as ended.
- For streaming partners: the planned streams, with their times, venue and people, can be handed to a streaming app through a secure key that we can revoke at any moment. Ask us to set it up.
Not yet
- We don't take in your camera feed ourselves: the stream comes from your own streaming setup or partner.
- No chat, tickets or paywall around the stream.
- No replay on the page after the stream has ended.
Questions
Where does the small W in the corner of the player go?
Here. It marks a stream that runs on Spot TV and opens this page in a new tab, so the stream keeps playing.
Why does the stream start without sound?
Browsers only start a video by itself when it is muted. One tap on the sound and it plays out loud.
Does it work on my own domain?
Yes. A page on your own domain shows the same block and player as your page at Spot TV.
What kind of stream address works?
An HLS playlist on https — the address ends in .m3u8. Most streaming services and encoders give you one.
Want to stream with us, or connect your streaming setup? Write to support@bandedit.com.