Semi-free Dispersa

[Nimble Streamer]

Nimble Streamer submitted a new resource:

Dispersa - Streams availability distributed monitoring service

Dispersa is a freemium service which allows making streams availability monitoring. It uses geographically distributed network of checkpoint.
All major media protocols are supported: RTMP, RTSP, HLS, HDS, Smooth, Icecast, Shoutcast, DASH.

The following service options are available:
- Free check-over: you enter stream URL and all available checkpoints - from California to Singapore - will check if it's running or not.
- Regular monitoring: sign up in the service for free, add streams URLs and...

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[Jack0r]

So how exactly is this interesting for me as a streamer? I just ran it over an example twitch stream and got this picture:

Or is this more interesting if you are hosting servers?

 

[Nimble Streamer]

You've used Twitch page which is not exactly the media URL I was referring to. You need to use direct links like rtmp://site.com/live/stream/live.stream or http://site.com/live/stream/playlist.m3u8.

So yes, it's primarily for those who handle media hosting. But if you have a stream with direct access, you can use it as well.