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Live video stream of the Apple special event online starting at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
- mijnpc 14y agoNever heard of UTC time format?
- chucknelson 14y agoWell, at least it doesn't just say 10 AM ... ;)
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- protomyth 14y agoTV viewing schedules have taught most US viewers to deal ok with PDT, CDT, etc. These same viewers are less familiar with converting from UTC.
- sami36 14y agowithout 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 14y agoIt isn't restricted to Apple TVs, it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 or OS X >= 10.6.
- lovamova 14y agoVLC 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/LIVE/en/1.xml http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/000/Features/oct_2012_event/...
- fudged71 14y agoIn VLC, is it a simple network stream? Or RTP? UDP? Here's the URL, by the way http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1210pibasdfvoihbadsv/atv_direct_mvp.m3u8 http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1210pibasdfvoihbadsv/a...
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoMedia->Open Network Stream... works for me, but click the playlist repeat button to deal with occasional connection loss.
- cryptoz 14y agoWhile 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.
- mikeash 14y agoPretending that someone might refer to my iPhone or my Mac Pro as an "Apple TV" is twisting things rather fiercely.
- cryptoz 14y agoYours? Certainly not. But I bet that thousands of less tech savvy people do refer to their devices as TVs, especially in the context of live video streaming.
- mikeash 14y agoDo those people frequently post comments to Hacker News?
- cryptoz 14y agoGood lord, they might read it. I don't know. I was just trying to mention that Apple devices act like TVs to the regular population. That's all. I don't care if they read these comments, I care that HN users are not so constantly hiding in their bubble. It's clear to me now (via all the downvotes) that these comments are not welcome here - I'll stop. Sorry.
- mikeash 14y agoYou came into a conversation where somebody had clearly just misread the page and didn't notice where it supported more hardware, and injected this bizarre guessing game of how hypothetical "regular" people could potentially use the phrase "Apple TV" to refer to any Apple hardware with a screen, and you're wondering why you're getting downvoted?
- hellweaver666 14y agoI think you meant to put an "or" instead of "and" it's restricted to anything that runs iOS >=4.2 OR OSX >= 10.6
- klausa 14y agoYes, of course. Thank you, fixed.
- gtCameron 14y agoMy 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
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- macuenca 14y ago05:00 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
- TimGebhardt 14y ago- Chicago: 12:00 PM (Noon)
- neya 14y agoThank you, that is very kind of you!
- viraptor 14y agohttp://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20121023T10&p1=137 http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=201...
- nicholassmith 14y agoInteresting 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 14y agoThey've been live streaming the iTunes festival too. I wonder if they are using this to test their streaming infrastructure ...
- nicholassmith 14y agoI'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.
- Achshar 14y agoSo 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 14y agoThe last stream I had to install QuickTime, though I believe VLC can play it by opening the source URL (check the HTML).
- Achshar 14y agoWhere 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/12oibwefsvihbsdfvpihbsd6_audio_ref.mov http://stream.qtv.apple.com/events/jun/12oibwefsvihbsdfvpihb...
- lovamova 14y agoYou can find the M3U8 url here: http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/000/Features/oct_2012_event/LIVE/en/1.xml http://a1.mzstatic.com/us/r1000/000/Features/oct_2012_event/... I didn't post the M3U8 directly because Apple might change it. I'm sure the XML file will remain the same.
- Achshar 14y agoGreat, Thanks!
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoLive Stream has started. Works fine in VLC with the .m3u8 URL from that. Although I'm finding I am often suddenly loosing connection, I suggest putting it in a playlist on repeat.
- VikingCoder 14y agoQuickTime? 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
- cvander 14y agoIt was about time. I wonder if they get more viewers than Redbull on Youtube.
- hackerpolicy 14y agoI really doubt they are going to come close to 7MM
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoSafari 5 download link: http://appldnld.apple.com/Safari5/041-5487.20120509.INU8B/SafariSetup.exe http://appldnld.apple.com/Safari5/041-5487.20120509.INU8B/Sa... Safari for Windows has been killed but you can still get it.
- grecy 14y agoIs it working for others? 10:10AM PST here, watching the liveblogs update, but the apple video says "available shortly"
- BryanB55 14y agoNot working for me. "Available shortly"
- bemmu 14y agoThe wording is confusing, actually it works on Safari even while it is still saying "available shortly" on Chrome.
- BryanB55 14y agowoops, nevermind... I had to switch to Safari and it works!
- andyobryan 14y agosame here *der... Safari only?
- cryptoz 14y agoDo 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".
- grecy 14y agoah. 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.
- buss 14y agoRidiculous, it only plays in Safari.
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- grecy 14y agoWorking on WinXP for me: http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini Seems to be about ~1 min behind the live blogs...
- isaacwaller 14y agoThanks for this! The VLC stream wasn't working for me, it was pausing every few seconds.
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- w1ntermute 14y agoThe Verge liveblog, for those for whom the stream isn't working: http://live.theverge.com/apple-ipad-mini-live-blog/ http://live.theverge.com/apple-ipad-mini-live-blog/
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoArs Technica's always excellent liveblog: http://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-2012-media-event-weve-got-a-little-more-to-show-you/ http://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-2012-media-event-w...
- nicholassmith 14y agoI 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.