Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT. (opens in new tab)

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grecy13y ago· 10 in thread

Is it working for others?

10:10AM PST here, watching the liveblogs update, but the apple video says "available shortly"

JoeCortopassi13y ago

Need to watch on Safari for it to work. I know, it's dumb

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cryptoz13y ago

Do you meet the requirements? They're streaming to a small audience.

> Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later.

And to everyone else, they lie and say it's "available shortly".

grecy13y ago

ah. I'm at work on Win XP.. though I did just install Quicktime 7 and have latest firefox.

I guess it's a no go.

HDevo13y ago

> Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later.

It's working only on Safari. On every other browser it says "available shortly".

BryanB5513y ago

Not working for me. "Available shortly"

bemmu13y ago

The wording is confusing, actually it works on Safari even while it is still saying "available shortly" on Chrome.

andyobryan13y ago

same here *der... Safari only?

BryanB5513y ago

woops, nevermind... I had to switch to Safari and it works!

xntrk13y ago

Doesn't seem to work on my iPhone 5 on wifi.

buss13y ago

Ridiculous, it only plays in Safari.

sami3613y ago· 5 in thread

without delving in the conspiratorial, Can anyone explain why would the broadcast be restricted to Apple TVs other than trying to control the number of concurrent streams they have to serve for scaling purposes ?

klausa13y ago

It isn't restricted to Apple TVs, it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 or OS X >= 10.6.

lovamova13y ago

VLC can play the stream too. You just need the URL ending in m3u8 which can be found here: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/000/Features/oct_2012_event/...

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hellweaver66613y ago

I think you meant to put an "or" instead of "and"

it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 OR OSX >= 10.6

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cryptoz13y ago

While I understand Apple TV is a product, and you're explaining that the service is available outside that particular product...

"anything that runs iOS >=4.2 and OS X >= 10.6" that is going to display a live video feed from another city is acting as a TV by Apple. Or, an Apple TV. In a colloquial sense, yes, this is indeed restricted to Apple TVs.

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gtCameron13y ago

My guess is that they aren't artificially limiting it, they are using HLS[1] which is only supported by certain browsers/devices. Stream isn't up yet to test but it should work on a newer (4.0+) Droid as well as in VLC if you can find the stream url.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Achshar13y ago· 4 in thread

So i have chrome on win 8, can i stream? should i even bother to install quicktime? i don't have it yet, but if it will stream, i will download it for sure.

RossM13y ago

The last stream I had to install QuickTime, though I believe VLC can play it by opening the source URL (check the HTML).

Achshar13y ago

Where do i find the url? The page's html has only one url that looks like a video/stream but it is 404.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/12oibwefsvihbsdfvpihb...

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VikingCoder13y ago

QuickTime? Wow - that's a blast from the past. Are you sure they're not using Real (TM) Player?

I'll double-check my Eudora for that e-Mail, after I fix my PPP which has been flaking out on me ever since my dad got call waiting on the house phome^H^Hne.

+++ATH0

nchlswu13y ago

based on the copy, It looks like Apple is locking Windows users out? I don't see why a Quicktime on Windows wouldn't work though...

EDIT: Based on other replies in the thread, it doesn't look like they're doing that.

macuencaOP13y ago· 3 in thread

  05:00 PM UTC
  - New York: 01:00 PM
  - Bogota: 12:00 PM
  - Sao Paulo: 03:00 PM
  - London: 06:00 PM
  - Berlin: 07:00 PM
  - Moscow: 09:00 PM
  - New Delhi: 10:30 PM
  - Tokyo: 02:00 AM +1 day
  - Sydney: 04:00 AM +1 day

viraptor13y ago

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=201...

TimGebhardt13y ago

- Chicago: 12:00 PM (Noon)

neya13y ago

Thank you, that is very kind of you!

nicholassmith13y ago· 2 in thread

Interesting that Apple has finally decided to put live streams back up, I wonder whats brought it on internally. I'm not complaining, whilst Cook isn't quite the magician that Jobs was he still gives an excellent presentation.

julien_p13y ago

They've been live streaming the iTunes festival too. I wonder if they are using this to test their streaming infrastructure ...

nicholassmith13y ago

I'd watched some of that and was impressed they'd finally started trying to exploit the Apple TV for something. Maybe Apple will be moving towards additional streaming content, which is a good thing.

mijnpc13y ago· 2 in thread

Never heard of UTC time format?

protomyth13y ago

TV viewing schedules have taught most US viewers to deal ok with PDT, CDT, etc. These same viewers are less familiar with converting from UTC.

chucknelson13y ago

Well, at least it doesn't just say 10 AM ... ;)

w1ntermute13y ago· 1 in thread

The Verge liveblog, for those for whom the stream isn't working: http://live.theverge.com/apple-ipad-mini-live-blog/

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Ars Technica's always excellent liveblog:

http://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-2012-media-event-w...

grecy13y ago· 1 in thread

Working on WinXP for me:

http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini

Seems to be about ~1 min behind the live blogs...

isaacwaller13y ago

Thanks for this! The VLC stream wasn't working for me, it was pausing every few seconds.

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cvander13y ago· 1 in thread

It was about time.

I wonder if they get more viewers than Redbull on Youtube.

hackerpolicy13y ago

I really doubt they are going to come close to 7MM

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Safari 5 download link: http://appldnld.apple.com/Safari5/041-5487.20120509.INU8B/Sa...

Safari for Windows has been killed but you can still get it.

nicholassmith13y ago

I was moderately impressed. Given how many people they were likely serving I'm surprised it held up as well as it did, but I found there was a few drop outs, audio dropping off and so on.

Nice to see Apple back to streaming live though.

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52 comments

40 comments · 11 top-level

grecy13y ago· 10 in thread

Is it working for others?

10:10AM PST here, watching the liveblogs update, but the apple video says "available shortly"

JoeCortopassi13y ago

Need to watch on Safari for it to work. I know, it's dumb

1 more reply

cryptoz13y ago

Do you meet the requirements? They're streaming to a small audience.

And to everyone else, they lie and say it's "available shortly".

grecy13y ago

ah. I'm at work on Win XP.. though I did just install Quicktime 7 and have latest firefox.

I guess it's a no go.

HDevo13y ago

> Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later.

It's working only on Safari. On every other browser it says "available shortly".

BryanB5513y ago

Not working for me. "Available shortly"

bemmu13y ago

The wording is confusing, actually it works on Safari even while it is still saying "available shortly" on Chrome.

andyobryan13y ago

same here *der... Safari only?

BryanB5513y ago

woops, nevermind... I had to switch to Safari and it works!

xntrk13y ago

Doesn't seem to work on my iPhone 5 on wifi.

buss13y ago

Ridiculous, it only plays in Safari.

sami3613y ago· 5 in thread

klausa13y ago

It isn't restricted to Apple TVs, it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 or OS X >= 10.6.

lovamova13y ago

VLC can play the stream too. You just need the URL ending in m3u8 which can be found here: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/000/Features/oct_2012_event/...

1 more reply

hellweaver66613y ago

I think you meant to put an "or" instead of "and"

it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 OR OSX >= 10.6

1 more reply

cryptoz13y ago

While I understand Apple TV is a product, and you're explaining that the service is available outside that particular product...

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gtCameron13y ago

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming

Achshar13y ago· 4 in thread

So i have chrome on win 8, can i stream? should i even bother to install quicktime? i don't have it yet, but if it will stream, i will download it for sure.

RossM13y ago

The last stream I had to install QuickTime, though I believe VLC can play it by opening the source URL (check the HTML).

Achshar13y ago

Where do i find the url? The page's html has only one url that looks like a video/stream but it is 404.

http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/12oibwefsvihbsdfvpihb...

1 more reply

VikingCoder13y ago

QuickTime? Wow - that's a blast from the past. Are you sure they're not using Real (TM) Player?

I'll double-check my Eudora for that e-Mail, after I fix my PPP which has been flaking out on me ever since my dad got call waiting on the house phome^H^Hne.

+++ATH0

nchlswu13y ago

based on the copy, It looks like Apple is locking Windows users out? I don't see why a Quicktime on Windows wouldn't work though...

EDIT: Based on other replies in the thread, it doesn't look like they're doing that.

macuencaOP13y ago· 3 in thread

  05:00 PM UTC
  - New York: 01:00 PM
  - Bogota: 12:00 PM
  - Sao Paulo: 03:00 PM
  - London: 06:00 PM
  - Berlin: 07:00 PM
  - Moscow: 09:00 PM
  - New Delhi: 10:30 PM
  - Tokyo: 02:00 AM +1 day
  - Sydney: 04:00 AM +1 day

viraptor13y ago

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=201...

TimGebhardt13y ago

- Chicago: 12:00 PM (Noon)

neya13y ago

Thank you, that is very kind of you!

nicholassmith13y ago· 2 in thread

julien_p13y ago

They've been live streaming the iTunes festival too. I wonder if they are using this to test their streaming infrastructure ...

nicholassmith13y ago

I'd watched some of that and was impressed they'd finally started trying to exploit the Apple TV for something. Maybe Apple will be moving towards additional streaming content, which is a good thing.

mijnpc13y ago· 2 in thread

Never heard of UTC time format?

protomyth13y ago

TV viewing schedules have taught most US viewers to deal ok with PDT, CDT, etc. These same viewers are less familiar with converting from UTC.

chucknelson13y ago

Well, at least it doesn't just say 10 AM ... ;)

w1ntermute13y ago· 1 in thread

The Verge liveblog, for those for whom the stream isn't working: http://live.theverge.com/apple-ipad-mini-live-blog/

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Ars Technica's always excellent liveblog:

http://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-2012-media-event-w...

grecy13y ago· 1 in thread

Working on WinXP for me:

http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini

Seems to be about ~1 min behind the live blogs...

isaacwaller13y ago

Thanks for this! The VLC stream wasn't working for me, it was pausing every few seconds.

1 more reply

cvander13y ago· 1 in thread

It was about time.

I wonder if they get more viewers than Redbull on Youtube.

hackerpolicy13y ago

I really doubt they are going to come close to 7MM

TazeTSchnitzel13y ago

Safari 5 download link: http://appldnld.apple.com/Safari5/041-5487.20120509.INU8B/Sa...

Safari for Windows has been killed but you can still get it.

nicholassmith13y ago

I was moderately impressed. Given how many people they were likely serving I'm surprised it held up as well as it did, but I found there was a few drop outs, audio dropping off and so on.

Nice to see Apple back to streaming live though.

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