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Last Friday, YouTube got a new feature. Having entered the Quick Capture section, users of the resource can now organize streaming from their webcam directly to the video service website, without intermediate links.

Technically, this feature is implemented through the Adobe Flash Player API. Each time before the start of the live broadcast, permission will be required to access the microphone and camera with manual indication of the interface used to connect these devices: DV, Firewire or USB.

After entering the name, tags, descriptions, and category selection, all that remains is to click the “Record” button and the process has started. The author of the video even does not even need to have special software, only a web browser.
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The main so far a significant drawback of Quick Capture is the inability to edit the created videos. So, perhaps, most YouTube users will prefer the old method of publishing videos, with pre-recording to a local computer. However, the lack of functionality (most likely temporary) can give rise to a new genre of folk video-creativity, based on filming, as they say, in one shot. In addition, before the process of placing video on the site was relatively difficult: recording, encoding, downloading could not be on the shoulders of people who were not very familiar with the computer. Now, everything optional has been eliminated from this chain and this may attract new nugget directors.

On Saturday, according to the Wall Street Journal newspaper (the article “Media Titans Again Discuss Site to Rival YouTube” is currently available only to subscribers), another event related to YouTube occurred. Some "informed sources" claim that the meeting of representatives of the four largest US broadcasting companies - Fox, Viacom, CBS and NBC Universal - discussed the creation of a site that could compete with YouTube and at the same time be more strictly controlled by these corporations.

The main purpose of this resource will be the placement of video programs that are shown on ordinary television channels. Thus, media companies are planning to reach an audience that prefers Internet TV, and to receive additional advertising revenue.

These discussions, according to the WSJ, have been going on since the beginning of the year, but no final decision has been made. Interestingly, the fifth pillar of American television, the company Walt Disney with its ABC network, does not participate in the negotiations.

Doubts of businessmen can be understood, because on YouTube you can still find a recording of almost any TV program and, while piracy is not eradicated there, and it is not known when this will happen, you can hardly hope that another resource is popular with the same content.