Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT • Hacker News Board

It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016.

Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?

Re: Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

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Post by nabaraz » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:02 PM UTC

netinstructions wrote: post #4

I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?

Interesting that Edge is allowed to stream.

PS: Wiki [1] says Apples's HTTP live streaming is supported on Chrome 30 and onwards.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Re: Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

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Post by nabaraz » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

Edit - doesn't work on Chrome 49

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Non safari users, you can change your user agent to Safari for live stream.

Chrome extension- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switche...

Firefox extension- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-sw...

Re: Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:05 PM UTC

berberous wrote: post #2

Anybody have a tip on how to watch on Windows 7?

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Re: Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

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Post by marklawrutgers » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:07 PM UTC

netinstructions wrote: post #4

I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?

They use some sort of proprietary streaming .hls that for some reason doesn't support third-party browsers (DRM?) and Microsoft supports it but only wants it to be available in their Edge browser.

Re: Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

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Post by netinstructions » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:11 PM UTC

nabaraz wrote: post #5

netinstructions wrote: post #4

I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?

Interesting that Edge is allowed to stream. PS: Wiki [1] says Apples's HTTP live streaming is supported on Chrome 30 and onwards. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

I checked that too. It's supported on Chrome 30 and onwards, but not for Chrome on desktop OSes.

Re: Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT

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Post by realityking » Mon, Mar 21, 2016, 5:13 PM UTC

netinstructions wrote: post #4

I'm curious why my modern browser "doesn’t support live streaming of the event" according to Apple. It was the same issue last year. I need an Apple product (or a Windows 10 PC with Microsoft Edge) to watch a livestream on the internet. Odd for 2016. Is this really a technical barrier or a marketing/strategic barrier?

They use HTTP Live Streaming (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming) which is Apple's own protocol and hasn't been adopted by anyone but Microsoft.

To be fair, when they first implemented it MPEG DASH was a long way off.