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On Friday the 13th of January 2006, YSTV made student television history by launching a live, 24/7 global web stream. | On Friday the 13th of January 2006, YSTV made student television history by launching a live, 24/7 global web stream. | ||
[[File:BBC - North Yorkshire - Students - YSTV goes worldwide.png|thumb|left|BBC North Yorkshire feature on the launch.]] | |||
That means that anyone in the world can now watch YSTV as it happens. We got pretty excited about it - it was one of the biggest things to happen to YSTV ever - and to celebrate it, we put on a huge live show. You can watch the show [http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/vids.php?cat=19 here]. | That means that anyone in the world can now watch YSTV as it happens. We got pretty excited about it - it was one of the biggest things to happen to YSTV ever - and to celebrate it, we put on a huge live show. You can watch the show [http://ystv.york.ac.uk/watch/vids.php?cat=19 here]. | ||
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All this is free for anyone to watch, and true to the spirit, they're all in a format that's just as free. All the videos are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, and it's all made possible by [http://www.xiph.org/ xiph.org], who support and develop open software for today's multimedia. All the content, including the live stream, is encoded in their free [http://www.theora.org/ theora] video codec. This makes YSTV the first TV Station in the World to be broadcasting live in Theora! The live stream itself is powered by the [http://www.flumotion.net/ Flumotion] streaming media server and [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ GStreamer], the open source multimedia framework. | All this is free for anyone to watch, and true to the spirit, they're all in a format that's just as free. All the videos are licensed under a [http://creativecommons.org/ Creative Commons] license, and it's all made possible by [http://www.xiph.org/ xiph.org], who support and develop open software for today's multimedia. All the content, including the live stream, is encoded in their free [http://www.theora.org/ theora] video codec. This makes YSTV the first TV Station in the World to be broadcasting live in Theora! The live stream itself is powered by the [http://www.flumotion.net/ Flumotion] streaming media server and [http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ GStreamer], the open source multimedia framework. | ||
BBC North Yorkshire also made a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2006/01/05/ystv_web_launch_feature.shtml feature] about us on their | BBC North Yorkshire also made a [http://www.bbc.co.uk/northyorkshire/content/articles/2006/01/05/ystv_web_launch_feature.shtml feature] about us on their website. | ||