I guess I was imagining something more like a suped up version of the old “picture-in-picture” function.
I am confident YouTube is hearing from a large fraction of users that they do want to be able to create their own multiverse, though I am not sure I believe they could not anticipate not only the desire, but that most users would assume it was included. Sent from Gmail Mobile On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 at 12:23 PM Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > Without seeing exactly what they're doing, I suspect that the reason that > you have to select from some pre-selected multiviews is simply technical > streaming. > > They're combining the feeds centrally and then encoding a group of four > games as a single video feed. While there may be some interactivity within > that - highlighting which game's sound you get - the highest bandwidth part > of the whole thing is the video, and it's easiest if YouTube compiles those > feeds once centrally, and serve that combination to users. This also means > that they can be pretty robust in their offer. If they make, say, five > combinations available, they only have to worry about each individual game > and the five combinations available to viewers. > > The trouble is that there can be a lot of ways to choose 4 games from > those being played. > > This week there are six early games, meaning that there are 15 different > combinations of choosing 4 of them for multiview. (Mathematically, the > calculation is nCk - or "n" choose "k", 6C4 in this instance). > > Next week I believe there are nine early games, and that means that there > are a massive 126 combinations of 4 games! > > And even if YouTube encoded each of those 126 combinations, trying to > navigate the list as a user would be a nightmare. > > Certainly, there's no theoretical reason why they couldn't let users pick > their four games and create a bespoke feed for each subscriber - but I > suspect that this is a coding challenge and as Tom says, they just didn't > crack it in time. And whatever solution they come up with has to work on > every platform where YouTube/YouTube TV is available. > > > Adam > > > On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 7:40 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if anyone here opted for NFL Sunday Ticket this season on >> YoutubeTV (I believe also available through YouTube)? I did - I wont >> describe in detail my experience, suffice it to say that the NFL is very >> wise not to allow partial refunds for in-season cancellations. I do have a >> technical question related to this package, which requires some set up. >> >> One of the reasons I decided to give ST a try (after paying for it for >> several seasons years ago when we had DirectTV) was the “Multiview” feature >> YoutubeTV was promoting. This allows the viewer to watch a 2,3 or 4 box >> screen with multiple games. >> >> I failed to do my due diligence on this feature (I think they rolled it >> out during the March Madness coverage last Spring), and did not realize >> that they do not let the viewer select the games to put in the boxes - >> instead the viewer selects from a series of pre-created multiple screen >> options. This would not be a problem, except that I find every week there >> are some combinations of games that are just not available, and most weeks >> it seems my optimum combination is one of these. >> >> And so my questions: Does anyone know of a technical reason why this >> might be? It is not due to blackout rules - I am in the Bay Area TV market, >> and the games I want to watch in the multiview never include the 49ers, or >> even the Las Vegas Raiders, and the game I can not match with the other 2 >> or 3 is still a game I can watch in single screen via Sunday Ticket. >> >> The Red Zone IMO continues to be the best way to watch the NFL, at a >> fraction of the cost. After the first month I signed back up for RedZone, >> and watch it together with ST. This has been helpful, as I can now >> select options where the RZ is one of the screens, so I can spend much of >> my time with RZ, but then switch over to a game with special interest to >> watch more continuously if I want (while, nicely, still monitoring all the >> other games in the RZ screen)*. 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