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Apple to livestream its fall event

If apple is streaming this, it means only one thing.

This is something big. Now i dont mean like one big product change. I mean multiple product changes including announcing product discontinuation . Frankly, i think the shuffle and ipod classic are going .
 
Master Chief said:
QuickTime X is only required for the desktop, but Safari can play HTTP Live streams natively within the <VIDEO> element. Have a look for yourself [test URI]: http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopall.html

Note: The samples [see links below] show the same NTSC test pattern at four different resolutions and data rates. The last sample streams at multiple data rates. The stream starts with sample 1 and switches to the fastest sample the connection supports.:

http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopgear1.html
http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopgear2.html
http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopgear3.html
http://devimages.apple.com/iphone/samples/bipbopgear4.html

Edit: I'm pretty confident that embedding the video stream URL in a HTML page will work with other browsers, simply because the StreamingMediaGuide.pdf [on page 20] reads: "To view the sample streams in browsers other than Safari, the QuickTime plug-in or ActiveX component is required."
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I have retested this on Windows 7 with Safari 5 and all the current updates and it doesn't run.
 
It is HTTP Live Stream

hachre said:
This doesn't seem to be a HTTP Live Stream to me. And of course Safari can display it, when you are on Snow Leopard since you have Quicktime X and Safari uses that.
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It is. It is from an article on developer.apple.com. What's interesting is that the article says that other browsers only need a Quicktime or ActiveX plugin to view the HTTP live stream, although I tried with firefox and it didn't work. (intel 2.4 C2D completely up to date)

EDIT: Master Chef beat me to it.
 
critter13 said:
It is. It is from an article on developer.apple.com. What's interesting is that the article says that other browsers only need a Quicktime or ActiveX plugin to view the HTTP live stream, although I tried with firefox and it didn't work. (intel 2.4 C2D completely up to date)
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Wikipedia says HTTP Live Streaming requires Quicktime X so my guess is it isn't supported because of missing Quicktime X in Windows. But if Quicktime X was available all browsers there could do it. (The ones that can do HTML 5 anyway)
 
Welcome news but I'm guessing the live bloggers like Engadget are shedding a little tear tonight. Also any journalist that just spent hours in an airplane finding out he could have just watched and reported from home.

beast260 said:
If apple is streaming this, it means only one thing.

This is something big. Now i dont mean like one big product change. I mean multiple product changes including announcing product discontinuation . Frankly, i think the shuffle and ipod classic are going .
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Or it means Apple doesn't want the livebloggers ***** up the show like they did w/ the iPhone event. Eliminate the need to liveblog and poof wi-fi interference issue goes away.
 
hachre said:
Wikipedia says HTTP Live Streaming requires Quicktime X so my guess is it isn't supported because of missing Quicktime X in Windows. But if Quicktime X was available all browsers there could do it. (The ones that can do HTML 5 anyway)
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Just tried with Chrome and still didn't work. I am really surprised that I can't get those clips to load with Chrome based on what the document says regarding only needing a plugin.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Welcome news but I'm guessing the live bloggers like Engadget are shedding a little tear tonight. Also any journalist that just spent hours in an airplane finding out he could have just watched and reported from home.



Or it means Apple doesn't want the livebloggers ***** up the show like they did w/ the iPhone event. Eliminate the need to liveblog and poof wi-fi interference issue goes away.
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Therein lies the irony. Live bloggers will want to blog live from the first live streamed event by Apple in several years.

Bloggers blog. They don't care. They like to type.:p
 
Peace said:
Funny stuff. Now I know why.

I just went there and the guy is talking about problems streaming live due to "Drive D fragmentation problems".

HA!
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I think they are having problems recording their podcasts with the Tricaster.
 
critter13 said:
Just tried with Chrome and still didn't work. I am really surprised that I can't get those clips to load with Chrome based on what the document says regarding only needing a plugin.
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Check page 7 of the document. It says there:

All devices running iOS 3.0 and later include built-in client software. A video placeholder is displayed when Safari encounters an <OBJECT> or <EMBED> tag with the URL of an HTTP Live stream. The full-screen media player is launched when the user touches the video placeholder. HTTP Live streams can also be played in native iPhone or iPad apps using the media player framework.

On Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later, QuickTime can play HTTP Live Streams. The QuickTime plug-in allows you to embed streams in websites using the <OBJECT> or <EMBED> tags, and Safari can play HTTP Live streams natively within the <VIDEO> element. Developers can also use the QTKit framework to create desktop applications that play HTTP Live Streams.
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That's it. It is specifically limited to the Quicktime of Mac OS 10.6+ or iOS 3.0+
 
This is amazing... either Apple thinks they can make more money/hype by doing this, or else it's something REALLY IMPORTANT.
I really hope for the latter... something amazingly cool with the ipod touch would be great. OH AND ONE LAST THING....
 
hachre said:
Check page 7 of the document. It says there:



That's it. It is specifically limited to the Quicktime of Mac OS 10.6+ or iOS 3.0+
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Right..... but I AM running 10.6.4 . Works fine in Safari. Does not work in firefox or chrome.
 
I think this music event is going to be the biggest one Apple ever had. New iPod touch design, new Nano design, possible cloud based iTunes... plus lots of other stuff we don't know.
 
complexcommunic said:
This is amazing... either Apple thinks they can make more money/hype by doing this, or else it's something REALLY IMPORTANT.
I really hope for the latter... something amazingly cool with the ipod touch would be great. OH AND ONE LAST THING....
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Or it could be that they want to get the streaming going because they are doing much more of these smaller events like this which not as many press people can attend.

WWDC is a once a year thing, and with Apple not doing MacWorld anymore, they have to rely on special events to announce things. That makes it harder for them to get press people to see what they have to announce.

So yeah, it is 100% a hype thing, you get more people watching at once, you get more news spread about the announcements at once. It takes longer for news to get out when they don't do live streams with smaller events like this.
 
That's it.

hachre said:
I think for some weird reason all browsers except Safari use the Quicktime 7 Plugin...
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Ah you are correct my friend.
 

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elppa said:
And to my knowledge this is the first large scale HTTP Live Streaming event.
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The iTunes London event attempted live streaming of the 62 bands to iOS devices that had the app for the tickets. I tried it a couple of times for bands i like and it didn't work.

I'm hoping they used it as a learning experience for tomorrow. :rolleyes:
 
Well, Apple does seem to want to make a point with this live streaming, indeed.

This really seems related to Quicktime X / Facetime streaming technologies. :)
 
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