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WWDC 05 Stream Crashing QT7.1

Lz0

Lz0

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Jul 20, 2002
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I can't seen to watch the WWDC 2005 Keynote Address by Steve because it just crashed QuickTime 7.1.

It buffers for a few seconds - plays - then when it tries to buffer again - FROZEN. I've tried it a few times now.

Anyone having this problem?

Try it ->> http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
 
1) Download it
2) Wait for it to fully load... i.e., click it, go to bed, wake up and watch it
 
Lz0 said:
I can't seen to watch the WWDC 2005 Keynote Address by Steve because it just crashed QuickTime 7.1.

It buffers for a few seconds - plays - then when it tries to buffer again - FROZEN. I've tried it a few times now.

Anyone having this problem?

Try it ->> http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
Click to expand...
I watched it from beginning to end. I had no problems at all. Streaming H.264 really is lovely.
 
MisterMe said:
I watched it from beginning to end. I had no problems at all. Streaming H.264 really is lovely.
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It was great. Quality way better than previous broadcasts.
 
i'm having the same problem on my computer. i click the link and quicktime loads and plays the first few seconds and crashes everytime. i thought it maybe it would be fixed if i update quicktime 7 to 7.0.1, which i did and repaired permissions, and still no luck. i check the system report and it keeps mentioning h.264, so could it be that my computer is struggling like it will with the high-def quicktime trailers Apple has now in h.264, i know it doesn't make sense for Apple to alienate a big chunk of users using a high codec, but offering any lower quality stream. i just wish apple would let us download the file but unfortunatly no. so does anyone have any suggestions to fix this. by the way i am on a powerbook 1.5hgz G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.1, Quicktime 7.0.1, and on a moderate DSL connection.
 
Lz0 said:
I can't seen to watch the WWDC 2005 Keynote Address by Steve because it just crashed QuickTime 7.1.

It buffers for a few seconds - plays - then when it tries to buffer again - FROZEN. I've tried it a few times now.

Anyone having this problem?

Try it ->> http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
Click to expand...
simalar prob here. it is just real slow after i pause it. then the audio gets off from the video. i think the problem is my 1ghz pb is too slow to decode h264 on the fly.. that sucks..
 
I had the same prob as well, after 15 seconds it would just freeze up. At first I thought it might have something to do with the fact that I just recently installed Real player (blame bbc.com), at least I know others are having similar problems. Ended up watching the keynote on an Windows machine, which I haven't booted up in months... :rolleyes:
 
I had this problem at first.

All you have to do is go into Quicktime Preferences and change the streaming speed from "Automatic" to whatever your connection speed is. That's what I did and it worked fine. :)

Thanks to abrooks for this solution.
 
Download?

dotdotdot said:
1) Download it
2) Wait for it to fully load... i.e., click it, go to bed, wake up and watch it
Click to expand...



Download? How? When I click on the link, it just streams.
 
I'm having the same problem!

FadeToBlack said:
I had this problem at first.

All you have to do is go into Quicktime Preferences and change the streaming speed from "Automatic" to whatever your connection speed is. That's what I did and it worked fine. :)

Tried this with no luck. All I have to do is click the link in Safari and select a speed (any of them) and the thing blinks...not even a few seconds of video before crashing as some have reported.

Any other ideas or new fixes out there?
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Yeh, the new H.264 stream is much better than the previous ones. It resizes really well and you can actually read what's on the presentation. I did have a problem getting my iBook to load the highest quality version, but now they have made it so you can choose which one to watch I have no problems.

One question to people getting this problem with a crash, are you using Panther or Tiger, because people I have asked using Panther have had no porblems, but the one tiger user I asked had the crash.
 
having same problem on my ibook laptop. It starts for about 5-10secs then video and sound go off sync, and i just get 2sec sound bites every 30secs.

The internet connection is not the problem, have no problem seeing other streaming video.

As to the question above yeah i using tiger :eek:
 
I had this problem. It stopped after 4 seconds on both my Mac and the pc in the corner.
I know it's a bit extreme but I ditched AOL on the PC and hooked up using my router (not ICS) and it came through a treat first time!

Goddam AOL punks!

Did anybody else think it was a bit of a let down this year? The WWDC last year was one of the main reasons I bought my Mac!
 
Did they change the stream. When I watched it on Monday of the release the video looked like the old videos. Now looking at it I can choose the video quality and looks much better then what I saw.

I ask this because I also had the problem of the video freezing. At exactly 15 seconds into the video Quicktime would crash. I had to watch the video on my PC with Quicktime 6.
 
I watched it first on my pc after trouble with AOL but when I watched it again this evening on the iMac it looked much better.
I think H.264 is really gonna kick some arse.

We have all the best toys first! :D
 
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