Wayne D's Blog

Yahoo Live refused to let me go live once again but after speaking to some other I realized that the service is suffering from the classic two place problem. Keep some information in two places and they will invariably get out of sync.The symtom here is that when you log into Yahoo Live everything works fine until you try to push the GO LIVE button, you can see the video from your camera in the preview but the GO LIVE button wouldn't activate. Looking at your status in the chat window show the bright green activated symbol. People report that your video screen in the chat screen is black, You can't broadcast your video because the client thinks you already are, You can't shut it off because you aren't broadcasting video.

The only way to get around this problem until the Yahoo Live team fixes this problem is to use a different Yahoo id. In some database deep in the bowels of Yahoo there is an entry that says you are broadcasting video. The last time this happened to me it was fixed when Yahoo took Yahoo Live offline for maintenance which probably had the side effect of clearing everyone's broadcasting flag. I'd report this to the Yahoo Live team but they haven't made it easy to leave them feedback. Of course they may already know about it, but who knows.