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

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

77 points by macuenca 13 years ago | 52 comments

macuenca 13 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

viraptor 13 years ago | |

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

TimGebhardt 13 years ago | |

- Chicago: 12:00 PM (Noon)

neya 13 years ago | |

Thank you, that is very kind of you!

nicholassmith 13 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 13 years ago | |

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

nicholassmith 13 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.

grecy 13 years ago |

Is it working for others?

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

JoeCortopassi 13 years ago | |

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

cryptoz 13 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".

grecy 13 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.

HDevo 13 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".

BryanB55 13 years ago | |

Not working for me. "Available shortly"

bemmu 13 years ago | | |

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

andyobryan 13 years ago | | |

same here *der... Safari only?

BryanB55 13 years ago | | |

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

xntrk 13 years ago | |

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

buss 13 years ago | |

Ridiculous, it only plays in Safari.

mijnpc 13 years ago |

Never heard of UTC time format?

protomyth 13 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.

chucknelson 13 years ago | |

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

TazeTSchnitzel 13 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.

sami36 13 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 ?

klausa 13 years ago | |

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

lovamova 13 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/...

hellweaver666 13 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

cryptoz 13 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.

gtCameron 13 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

w1ntermute 13 years ago |

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

TazeTSchnitzel 13 years ago | |

Ars Technica's always excellent liveblog:

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

grecy 13 years ago |

Working on WinXP for me:

http://www.ustream.tv/ipadmini

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

isaacwaller 13 years ago | |

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

nicholassmith 13 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.

Achshar 13 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 13 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).

Achshar 13 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 13 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 13 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 13 years ago |

It was about time.

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

hackerpolicy 13 years ago | |

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

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