Video On Demand - VOD Support and Recent Events for ANY streamer - Event Explorer

VOD Support!

We now have support for directly watching the Video On Demand of previous race events!

My Race History page - available to anyone, regardless of whether they stream or not or are in our database - they get links to watch the videos from streamers who participated in their events.

Recent Events - for any currently live streamer, you get a list of their events and links to watch the videos from them or other broadcasters in the same races.

This is early and still has some potential hiccups as far as VOD files not being available because of permissions (sub only VODs) and some other technicalities, but when it works - IT WORKS!!!

There is now a Recent Events button on each live streamer's card.

Clicking on the main part of the card still takes you to their Twitch page to watch their current broadcast, but clicking the Recent Events button shows their recent events, and includes the links to watch the associated VODs

So now in addition to direct access to live streams, we are surfacing the historical data as well as direct access to previous race events for that broadcaster.

Event Explorer

Why limit access to the historical content based on who happens to be streaming live right now?

With the Event Explorer you can now browse, sort and filter the recent events. Find streamers, series, races and access the VODs directly.

Rather than thinking of the content as a "stream" or collection of "broadcasts" we can serve the videos for each "Race Event" and use the data about the warmup, practice and qualify stages to cue up the timing to start the VOD right as the race begins.

This feels pretty big as far as making the archived content discoverable.