Abstract: A method for distributing live video broadcasted by a mobile computing device, the method being carried out by one or more hardware processors of one or more servers connected to said mobile computing device over a computer network, the method comprising: receiving sequential video segments of upload bandwidth-optimized lengths from said mobile computing device, the sequential video segments constituting a live video broadcast captured by a digital camera of said mobile computing device; appending said sequential video segments to a Transport Stream (TS) container residing in a buffer memory; segmenting said TS container into distribution-ready TS segments of download bandwidth-optimized lengths, and appending a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of each TS segment of said TS segments to a playlist file; and serving said playlist file via Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to a plurality of clients configured to sequentially download said TS segments via HTTP and play downloaded TS segments, wherein said clie