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

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2012/

by macuenca • 14 years ago

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mijnpc• 14 years ago

Never heard of UTC time format?

chucknelson• 14 years ago

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

protomyth• 14 years 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.

sami36• 14 years ago

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 ?

klausa2• 14 years ago

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

cryptoz5• 14 years 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.

hellweaver666• 14 years 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

lovamova2• 14 years 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/...

gtCameron• 14 years 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

macuenca• 14 years ago

  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

TimGebhardt• 14 years ago

- Chicago: 12:00 PM (Noon)

neya• 14 years ago

Thank you, that is very kind of you!

viraptor• 14 years ago

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

nicholassmith3• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

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

nicholassmith3• 14 years 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.

Achshar3• 14 years ago

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• 14 years ago

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

Achshar3• 14 years 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...

VikingCoder• 14 years 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

nchlswu• 14 years 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.

cvander• 14 years ago

It was about time.

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

hackerpolicy• 14 years ago

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

TazeTSchnitzel4• 14 years 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.

grecy3• 14 years ago

Is it working for others?

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

BryanB552• 14 years ago

Not working for me. "Available shortly"

andyobryan• 14 years ago

same here *der... Safari only?

bemmu• 14 years ago

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

BryanB552• 14 years ago

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

cryptoz5• 14 years 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".

grecy3• 14 years 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.

buss• 14 years ago

Ridiculous, it only plays in Safari.

JoeCortopassi• 14 years ago

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

HDevo• 14 years 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".

xntrk• 14 years ago

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

grecy3• 14 years ago

Working on WinXP for me:

http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini

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

isaacwaller• 14 years ago

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

w1ntermute• 14 years ago

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

TazeTSchnitzel4• 14 years ago

Ars Technica's always excellent liveblog:

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

nicholassmith3• 14 years 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.

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

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