Hi faulk,
My name is Larry and I work at Akamai. While we are not responsible for the
production of the video content itself, we do deliver the streams from our
network of qtss machines. I apologize for poor quality of your streams during
this keynote (and I am also happy that you had a good experience in July -- we
delivered that keynote as well).
If you would like to pursue the technical details regarding your connection
quality, contact me offline and I'll be happy to help narrow down the possible
causes.
I know that Apple will be releasing the official numbers for the keynote soon as
the reporting from our distributed network is finished off, but consider this:
Apple pushed their web page that actually contained the ref movies live roughly
10 minutes before the keynote was to go live. Within 10 minutes, we were pushing
over 8 Gbps worth of quicktime streams.
We work very closely with the QT engineering and operations to make each year
better. I would be interested in analyzing your connection to help make the next
one even better. For that matter, feedback from the rest of the list is welcome.
Cheers,
Larry
On Tue, 8 Jan 2002 email@hidden wrote:
> To whoever was responsable for the keynote stream yesterday.
>
> It was the worst stream in the last 3 years that I have watched(on
> DSL 768). The July webcast was the best (my first broadband stream).
> I know that normally that is not the forum but the amount of
> unusablity of the stream really urges me to post here.
>
> First. of all it took me about 6 attempts to actually get a
> connection to the server up. Under OSX it didn4t work at all....
> Second. the connection dropped and killed Quicktime App completly on
> 3 different computers.
> Third. I got a stream with white content as pic and audio. then I got
> an audio stream only.
> fourth. I got an video stream only that had a framerate of 1 frame
> per 5 minutes and no audio.
> fifth. for the final iMac announcment I finally got a video and audio
> stream. but the video stream sucked so much.
>
> What would I have done different to make the stream available to the masses?
>
> Content: when I finally got the stream w/ video and audio going the
> video stopped all the time. The times when I got to see a picture was
> when the camera was still. Then it struck me. Why do the developers
> of quicktime stream content that they know is not good for streaming.
> I mean the camera was moving all the time. the advertisments(iMac)
> did the rest with there fast past cuts. So
>
> Why in the world is apple streaming a TV transmition when the
> bandwidth on such an hyped announcment is so limiting? 3 fixed
> camerars at different angles would have opened up so much bandwidth.
> The camera during the stream was constantly moving and we all know
> here how bad this is (this is in every introductory tutorial for
> streaming media applications!)
> Also all the time something interesting came up the camera guy was so
> exited to make a zoom on the screen or the product or on steve. every
> time he zoomed in the stream cut of because it exceeded bandwidth.
>
> Why doesn4t apple has three cameras in the room w/ some cheap
> operators that are just standing still. A total, a close up and one
> moving around for specials. Its the usual procedure most streaming
> conferences are set up. It was not exactly what you would call a
> Quicktime Promotion. It was more a smack in the face of Quicktime
> Developers. and it would cost apple so little...... and we would all
> actually see what is magically appearing in front of steve....
>
> best
> fALK
>
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>
>
>
Larry Underhill
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