Live broadcast method, anchor end, viewer end, equipment, system, and storage medium

The invention provides a live broadcast method, an anchor end, a viewer end and a live broadcast system, and relates to the field of network broadcasting. According to the live broadcast method provided by the present application, the manner of separating the playback key information from a live data stream is adopted to perform the work of issuing the live data stream by an application server, sothat the viewer end does not need to wait for the live data stream to be received to initialize a player but requests to the application server to obtain the playback key information; furthermore, tosome extent, the player at the viewer end can be pre-initialized, so that the speed at which the player plays the live data stream is improved. 本发明提供了直播方法、主播端、观众端及直播系统，涉及网络直播领域。本申请提供的直播方法，采用将播放关键信息从直播数据流中分离出的方式，将下发直播数据流的工作交由应用服务器进行，使得观众端不需要等待其接收到直播数据流后才能够初始化播放器，而是可以向应用服务器请求获取播放关键信息，进而，某种程度上，可以做到对观众端的播放器进行预先初始化，使得播放器播放直播数据流的速度提高了。