Writing an app to stream video to iPhone

Question

I\'m interested in creating an iPhone app that can stream video from a central server, YouTube style. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried to do this before, what is the

Answer 1

Apple has a detailed article about setting up server side for media streaming:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/StreamingMediaGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

and Best Practices Note:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/technotes/tn2224/_index.html

Not only it contains info about streaming service architecture and tools used to build it but also has some requirements to such kind of service that must be fulfilled and references to live test streams.