Count on Apple to always side with the freedom-craving end user against the productivity-killing conspiracies of the IT Department... In this case, it means that you **WILL** be able to watch the live streaming of the event, simply because it happens through a new emerging standard that leverages plain vanilla HTTP requests to a plain vanilla web server to show bandwidth-adaptive high quality video, whether (pausable) live, time-offset or previously recorded. This HTTP Live Streaming specification was originally developed by Apple but is now an IETF Internet-Draft.
The basic concept is incredibly simple (as are all good things): a kind of playlist (in an extended .m3u format) lists a number of video chunks; all are stored on a web server. A suitably equipped browser (so far only on Safari on Mac OS X 10.6 or iOS3+) uses regular HTTP (which supposedly will not be blocked by evil IT) to fetch the playlist from the server, then to get all the video chunks one after another and play them in sequence. When the end of the playlist is reached and no END marker has been found, the browser simply refreshes the playlist, potentially listing a bunch of new blocks. If you want to know more, follow the link to the docs & specs at the bottom of this post.
If you simply want to check it out for yourself (through the firewall and all ;-), then point your Safari (10.6 or iOS3+) to the demo on the web site of Caringo: we develop software that turns a bunch of standard X86 servers into a private cloud, accessible through standard http. What you'll see is a few http streaming demos coming straight off our storage infrastructure WITHOUT any type of streaming server or protocol intervening. If this demo works for you, you'll be able to see the Apple transmission as well.
http://www.caringo.com/iphone (a safety feature protects abuse of this public demo: every video will play only once - it will play again only after a very long timeout, or after you restart your Mac or iPhone ;-)
Count on Apple to always side with the freedom-craving end user against the productivity-killing conspiracies of the IT Department... In this case, it means that you **WILL** be able to watch the live streaming of the event,
Sorry, my IT folks are smart enough to figure out how to block HTTP Live Streaming. None of the demos work for me on the corporate network, but do at home and on other networks.
hehe I thought you were going to say ?except for a continuous dead stretch between Miami, Florida and the Canadian border in Maine.?
AT&T's 3G coverage map is pretty accurate for I-95 from Ft. Lauderdale to DC and for I-80 from Scranton to Chicago. We drove those routes in early May about a week after getting our iPads, using them for weather radar and streaming Internet radio.
Is it just me or did the feed just jump back in time a couple of minutes after Steve took the stage? I'm now looking at a 30% full theater. Maybe a buffer...?
Apparently I'm about 20 minutes behind on my iP4 on 3G. Bummer. \
I was just watching the iPod Shuffle, Steve said and Now!... and it kicked me out to the very beginning of the show before it even started. What a bummer.
LOL iPod shuffle and nano seems like they were put out just for the sake of it. iPod shuffle is the old shuffle. Nano is the old shuffle but with touch...
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Count on Apple to always side with the freedom-craving end user against the productivity-killing conspiracies of the IT Department... In this case, it means that you **WILL** be able to watch the live streaming of the event, simply because it happens through a new emerging standard that leverages plain vanilla HTTP requests to a plain vanilla web server to show bandwidth-adaptive high quality video, whether (pausable) live, time-offset or previously recorded. This HTTP Live Streaming specification was originally developed by Apple but is now an IETF Internet-Draft.
The basic concept is incredibly simple (as are all good things): a kind of playlist (in an extended .m3u format) lists a number of video chunks; all are stored on a web server. A suitably equipped browser (so far only on Safari on Mac OS X 10.6 or iOS3+) uses regular HTTP (which supposedly will not be blocked by evil IT) to fetch the playlist from the server, then to get all the video chunks one after another and play them in sequence. When the end of the playlist is reached and no END marker has been found, the browser simply refreshes the playlist, potentially listing a bunch of new blocks. If you want to know more, follow the link to the docs & specs at the bottom of this post.
If you simply want to check it out for yourself (through the firewall and all ;-), then point your Safari (10.6 or iOS3+) to the demo on the web site of Caringo: we develop software that turns a bunch of standard X86 servers into a private cloud, accessible through standard http. What you'll see is a few http streaming demos coming straight off our storage infrastructure WITHOUT any type of streaming server or protocol intervening. If this demo works for you, you'll be able to see the Apple transmission as well.
http://www.caringo.com/iphone (a safety feature protects abuse of this public demo: every video will play only once - it will play again only after a very long timeout, or after you restart your Mac or iPhone ;-)
Enjoy!
Paul Carpentier
CTO, Caringo, Inc.
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/li...nkElementID_29
( abbreviated: http://tinyurl.com/34xut2z )
Get this......
This year at work the IT department is clamping down (as per the friggin management) and decided to firewall all internet streaming.
Now of all times as Apple has miraculously decided to allow a livestream of their event!!!!!
Dear Olternaut,
Count on Apple to always side with the freedom-craving end user against the productivity-killing conspiracies of the IT Department... In this case, it means that you **WILL** be able to watch the live streaming of the event,
Sorry, my IT folks are smart enough to figure out how to block HTTP Live Streaming. None of the demos work for me on the corporate network, but do at home and on other networks.
- Jasen.
hehe I thought you were going to say ?except for a continuous dead stretch between Miami, Florida and the Canadian border in Maine.?
AT&T's 3G coverage map is pretty accurate for I-95 from Ft. Lauderdale to DC and for I-80 from Scranton to Chicago. We drove those routes in early May about a week after getting our iPads, using them for weather radar and streaming Internet radio.
If this demo works for you, you'll be able to see the Apple transmission as well.
Worked fine on my iPhone - but not on my PC version of Safari (user agent changed to iPhone) but I expected that.
Thanks!
Steve talked about Apple Retail
Steve talking about iOS 4.1
BUILT IN HDR. AWESOME
Game Center. Multi-player games, auto matching. Steve looks kinda healthy but still quite thin.
Printing on iPad!!!
Apparently I'm about 20 minutes behind on my iP4 on 3G. Bummer.
I was just watching the iPod Shuffle, Steve said and Now!... and it kicked me out to the very beginning of the show before it even started. What a bummer.
Don't take me too seriously hah
These Apple people aren't very innovative are they?
I'm gonna browse over to the Microsoft page, see what they're up to...