Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by nabla9 » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:09 PM UTC

readerrrr wrote: post #5

How can I watch this on windows if I don't have Quicktime installed?

I watch it here: https://www.google.com/finance?cid=22144

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by sarciszewski » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

pseudometa wrote: post #11

readerrrr wrote: post #5

How can I watch this on windows if I don't have Quicktime installed?

Use any iOS device if you have one. Or use one of the streams on Twitch... http://www.twitch.tv/search?query=apple+event#stq=apple event&stp=1

> Use any iOS device if you have one.

Sorry, I'm not rich. :P

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by Quai » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

"Sorry, your browser doesn’t support our live video stream."

My browser supports live video just fine. It's -your- streaming software that lacks support for my browser.

This illustrates why I never have, and never will own a Apple product.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by sudhirj » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

As far as live feeds go, this is one of the biggest screwups I've ever seen.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

ewang1 wrote: post #137

e0m wrote: post #116

Anyone else seeing the TV Truck schedule instead of the keynote right now?

My guess is they underestimated the number of viewers and didn't have enough bandwidth prepared.

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Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by ulfw » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

Wow they seriously messed this one up.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by Cookingboy » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

e0m wrote: post #116

Anyone else seeing the TV Truck schedule instead of the keynote right now?

Pretty embarrassing for the largest tech company in the world...

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by brotchie » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

MCRed wrote: post #155

e0m wrote: post #116

Anyone else seeing the TV Truck schedule instead of the keynote right now?

Ok, got video, but am getting the Chinese Translator speaking over Tim Cook. I can barely hear him.

Yeah, same here :( Could be something to do with CDN routing.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by deelowe » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:11 PM UTC

MCRed wrote: post #108

Someone1234 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

None of those things are open standards. Both Mpeg4 and "Bonjour" require a licence to utilise. Maybe that answers your question, people don't want to pay Apple oodles of money? > Frankly, I think its appalling that youtube, for instance, is still running on flash. Everyone can turn on HTML5 for YouTube if they wish. They offer both. They give you the choice, the default is Flash (but Flash still has the widest suppo…

Bonjour was released under an open source license, part of it the Apache license, and does not require a royalty to be paid to Apple. I turned on HTML5 video for youtube and I still have this problem, because they don't encode all videos in MP4.

You seem to have missed this bit

> Because people would have to pay licensing fees several times for the same stream

Many groups have spoken out about the licensing issues with pictures, video, and audio. That's what has created this mess.

Re: Apple – Live – September 2014 Special Event

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Post by derefr » Tue, Sep 09, 2014, 5:12 PM UTC

cylinder wrote: post #130

Restricting this to Safari only? Fuck you Apple. I'm on a god damned Macbook.

It's not Safari-only, it's just a Quicktime RTMP stream, like all their streams have always been. You should be able to watch it in any browser with a Quicktime plugin.