Livestream Clipping

Overview

This update allows builders to easily create clips of ongoing livestreams. Currently, builders can create clips from the most recent N seconds of a given stream, or clip arbitrary sections of a long-running stream, such as a particular session from a live-streamed conference.

This release includes:

Flexible Clip API
Player integration for simple clipping use cases (e.g. last 30 seconds)
Reference implementation of a social livestream clipping experience

To access these features:

SDK and Player users should update to @livepeer/react@3.0.0 or later.
Builders using the Clip API should follow the guides below to implement their clipping experience, but do not need to take additional action.

Details

This release of clipping is an expressive API to enable sophisticated livestream clipping workflows. By specifying arbitrary start and end times from a given viewer's perspective, application developers can create clips of ongoing livestreams to capture and share exciting moments.

Resources

Known Limitations

These updates only allow clipping of livestreams; asset clipping will be included in a future release.