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Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.

77 points| macuenca | 13 years ago |apple.com | reply

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[+] nicholassmith|13 years ago|reply
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_p|13 years ago|reply
They've been live streaming the iTunes festival too. I wonder if they are using this to test their streaming infrastructure ...
[+] grecy|13 years ago|reply
Is it working for others?

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

[+] JoeCortopassi|13 years ago|reply
Need to watch on Safari for it to work. I know, it's dumb
[+] cryptoz|13 years ago|reply
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".

[+] HDevo|13 years ago|reply
> 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".

[+] BryanB55|13 years ago|reply
Not working for me. "Available shortly"
[+] xntrk|13 years ago|reply
Doesn't seem to work on my iPhone 5 on wifi.
[+] buss|13 years ago|reply
Ridiculous, it only plays in Safari.
[+] mijnpc|13 years ago|reply
Never heard of UTC time format?
[+] protomyth|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] chucknelson|13 years ago|reply
Well, at least it doesn't just say 10 AM ... ;)
[+] sami36|13 years ago|reply
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 ?
[+] klausa|13 years ago|reply
It isn't restricted to Apple TVs, it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 or OS X >= 10.6.
[+] gtCameron|13 years ago|reply
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

[+] grecy|13 years ago|reply
Working on WinXP for me:

http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini

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

[+] isaacwaller|13 years ago|reply
Thanks for this! The VLC stream wasn't working for me, it was pausing every few seconds.
[+] nicholassmith|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] Achshar|13 years ago|reply
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.
[+] RossM|13 years ago|reply
The last stream I had to install QuickTime, though I believe VLC can play it by opening the source URL (check the HTML).
[+] nchlswu|13 years ago|reply
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.

[+] cvander|13 years ago|reply
It was about time.

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

[+] hackerpolicy|13 years ago|reply
I really doubt they are going to come close to 7MM