Support other types of media besides YouTube

[gbl08ma]

JungleTV could support other types of online media besides YouTube videos, as long as these can be legally embedded on 3rd party pages.

• YouTube streams (users would specify how long the stream should play for, and pay accordingly)
• Twitch streams (same thing)
• SoundCloud audio tracks (still subject to length limits like YouTube) - not sure if their player is controllable via API, but I think it at least used to be

Much of the system was originally modeled with this in mind, but some corners have been progressively cut in order to meet deadlines, so to speak. So some things are not as "generic" as they could be.

[stjet]

Just floating an idea out here (might not be a good one), what if they were different 'channels', like a real TV, instead of supporting twitch, youtube, soundcloud, etc etc all in the same place? Maybe one for twitch streams and one for audio only? Or hell, maybe two for youtube, one primary and another secondary (the secondary one could serve as a way for poorer monkeys to enqueue videos or to reduce congestion on the primary one)? I'm not sure how complicated this would be though. What do you think?
(This might be supposed to be a seperate issue, if so, sorry.)

[sebrock]

Just floating an idea out here (might not be a good one), what if they were different 'channels', like a real TV, instead of supporting twitch, youtube, soundcloud, etc etc all in the same place? Maybe one for twitch streams and one for audio only? Or hell, maybe two for youtube, one primary and another secondary (the secondary one could serve as a way for poorer monkeys to enqueue videos or to reduce congestion on the primary one)? I'm not sure how complicated this would be though. What do you think?
(This might be supposed to be a seperate issue, if so, sorry.)

While I like the idea in gerneral for a site like this, I don't think it is viable to have different channels because it would multiply the effort for moderation by the number of channels.

Just my 2 cents

[stjet]

Good point.

[ninjamar]

Just floating an idea out here (might not be a good one), what if they were different 'channels', like a real TV, instead of supporting twitch, youtube, soundcloud, etc etc all in the same place? Maybe one for twitch streams and one for audio only? Or hell, maybe two for youtube, one primary and another secondary (the secondary one could serve as a way for poorer monkeys to enqueue videos or to reduce congestion on the primary one)? I'm not sure how complicated this would be though. What do you think? (This might be supposed to be a seperate issue, if so, sorry.)

I think this would be a good idea but only like 2 channels. Could you also add a report button so people can report bad/inappropriate content?

[gbl08ma]

Support for SoundCloud tracks added in 226a565, 20cd0ba, 0a43dca, 9969543, 930d1ea, cf17d1a and other commits. This feature will be available in the next update.

Twitch should be technically doable, it's pending on me understanding whether JungleTV would be able to abide by their terms for embeds.