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Can You Watch Apple's Keynote Stream? Requirements and Workarounds

live.twit.tv will have a mac set up streaming it over there network. It will be in a flash player so any one can watch.
 
Just to clarify, is Apple putting the link to the stream up on their site before the event? Or just during?
 
Tombomb said:
live.twit.tv will have a mac set up streaming it over there network. It will be in a flash player so any one can watch.
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forget it, you won't enjoy the apple event on this site, they have covered apple events before and they won't shut their mouths for a second and giving absolute annoying comments the whole time, i would rather read a live text coverage than watching these annoying freaks...
 
Safari only? I can see it in Safari, but not Firefox on the same system. Figures if it is an Apple standard, I guess :)
 
DylanLikesPorn said:
If the stream was important to you, you'd make the time for it. No one is every too busy for things that are of value to them.
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Ok, on one hand, you're right.

Having said that, what if, for instance, you were a fire fighter (and weren't totally useless), and you were dead set on watching the thing tomorrow. Prior to the keynote your station receives word of a burning Whatever, which is full of peoples. If you bailed on taking in the presentation, would that truly translate to the keynote being of no value to you?
 
nexsta said:
forget it, you won't enjoy the apple event on this site, they have covered apple events before and they won't shut their mouths for a second and giving absolute annoying comments the whole time, i would rather read a live text coverage than watching these annoying freaks...
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I'm not sure what planet you are on but TWiT coverage of these events is always excellent. Leo and his studio friends (almost all of them Apple fans) present insightful, well-reasoned, on the spot analysis of the announcements as they happen.
 
They could provide a regular stream as well, so the world gets to know how much better this new streaming tech is, by comparison. Of course, people on unsupported systems will just blame Apple for the crappy framerates!
 
SockRolid said:
I wonder if Steve will say, at one point during his talk, "We're proud to announce that the Netflix app on iTV uses open-standard HTTP Live Streaming, which we're using to broadcast this event over the internet as I speak. It's a high performance protocol that produces great streaming video, as those of you watching right now can see..."
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*limited to 720p on itv. :cool:
 
VLC is fantastic. Thanks to those who work on it! It used to be buggy for me but now it's rock solid. :)
 
HTTP streaming

The random seek performance of that 30 minute test clip is outstanding. I think this protocol has more than just "some advantages" over existing media streaming protocols (*cough* Adobe RTMP), which often choke when you change the playback location.
 
I see the "open standard" as a load of horse crap here.

Reason being is they claim open yet it only works on their OS bit fails in their browser. This is not an open standard if it is all controlled by apple. I am sorry but I trust Abobe a lot more on being open LONG before I would trust apple. Apple does not understand the meaning of the words open standard.
 
There are already Android apps supporting it (Canal+ in France), Windows apps (Verimatrix) and some set top boxes as well (Sezmi, AVTrex)
 
I'd watch it if they had something interesting to say. Don't care about iTunes, iTV, or iPods. It's just going to be a rehash of what we already know.
 
Rodimus Prime said:
Reason being is they claim open yet it only works on their OS bit fails in their browser. This is not an open standard if it is all controlled by apple. I am sorry but I trust Abobe a lot more on being open LONG before I would trust apple. Apple does not understand the meaning of the words open standard.
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The Apple definition of open standard is similar to the Microsoft definition: propose something which will be useful for knocking out the competition in some way, ignoring whether it's a fitting open extension and making sure it's first and better implemented on your own platforms. See also <canvas>, the non-HTML HTML element.
 
THX1139 said:
I'd watch it if they had something interesting to say. Don't care about iTunes, iTV, or iPods. It's just going to be a rehash of what we already know.
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Don't forget about iLife. It's still a possibility, especially if they come out with iOS versions of all the iLife apps.
 
This is relevant to my interests :)

I'm so glad their doing live coverage! I don't like constantly refreshing macrumors/engadget/twitter :p

Sample broadcast works fine :) I'll be tuned in at 6pm!
 
aurichie said:
I'm not sure what planet you are on but TWiT coverage of these events is always excellent. Leo and his studio friends (almost all of them Apple fans) present insightful, well-reasoned, on the spot analysis of the announcements as they happen.
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that's the problem, they do it as it happen, it's like watching a long-awaited movie in the cinema and some people next to you can't stop telling you stuff about this movie all the time...
 
Reminder

Before those of you who are complaining that this standard is "closed" embarass themselves further, I'd like to remind everyone that the standard is open, published (at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-03) and the only reason non-Apple stuff can't see it is that (maybe except the Roku player?) there isn't any implementing it.

It's even trivial to implement (as TFA points out, VLC is almost there, for example).
 
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