YouTube Live – The Story of Enhancing RTMP

RTMP was first introduced in 2002 with the launch of Macromedia’s Flash Player 6. 20 years later, it is still among the most popular ingestion protocols for live-streaming, despite not being updated in over 10 years. Here, YouTube explains the background behind enhancing RTMP, bringing new capabilities to RTMP for the first time in a decade. They are excited to work with the community to help push the live-streaming ecosystem forward together to benefit creators.


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