Live streaming using YouTube on iOS

Question

I've successfully streamed normal YouTube videos on iOS using the iOS YouTube helper, but live stream does not seem to work.

I am not sure whether live streaming is even supported, but I could not find it in their docs.

Any idea how to make it work on iOS (without breaching ToS)?

Answer 1

The playback of YouTube Live Events is supported by the YTPlayerView iOS helper classes. The player will treat the Live Event video just like a regular YouTube video (as the iFrame player should), and your video should play back no problem with the "Live Broadcast" message replacing the scrubber of the player like so:

The only difference I have noticed is that the video will return an "auto" quality value. I have submitted a patch to handle this case which has been merged in to the official repo here.