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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