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

While the existing answers are good, if you need to use non HTTP streams (mms or rtmp for example) or non Apple supported audio / video codecs, things get a bit more complicated.

I'm not an expert myself, but I've been using this VideoStreaming SDK to solve those problems, and it makes customizing the client much easier (background streaming, pausing streams, etc). Might be worth a look if you have those requirements as well.