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SeSawaya · Jul 20, 2002, 09:56 AM

5 or 6? I started in 5 and it was so bad that I quickly installed 6 (as quick as it could be that is) and t was even worse quality!!! I thought maybe thats why 5 was bad, to get you to switch.

What did you think?

OwlBoy · Jul 20, 2002, 10:08 AM

6, looked great for a huge (in viewers) and live stream!

-Owl

tomra · Jul 20, 2002, 12:03 PM

Hi.

I watched it in QT5 and it was pretty bad.
No audio for the most part of the keynote...video was "fairly" ok though....

Tom.

SeSawaya · Jul 20, 2002, 01:51 PM

funny, owlboy, I was watching it steaming over my cable modem and it was the worst thing I'd ever seen. I watched the SF keynote the same way (only using 5) full screen. I even recorded it to a VCR while it was going live and it llok great. This was just horrid though even with 6. I wonder if I did something wrong? It was also VERY tiny. <img border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" title="" src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" />

tr · Jul 20, 2002, 03:40 PM

when the keynote started, at the time, i didn't upgrade to 6, so i started watching it 5. it sucked. looked like crap streaming, even with my cable modem. so i quickly quit, installed 6, and checked out the mp4 stream. holy crap!!! what a difference! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="eek.gif" /> i mean, it was perfect, like i was watching a regular .mov directly on my system.

there wss only one time that it hung: it was when steve announced that .mac costs $100 a year. the picture just froze, and no audio. had to stop it and start it again. but, now i'm not sure if that was a stream bug, or if that's what really happened at the keynote.

tr

nitram_again · Jul 21, 2002, 12:29 AM

Started in QT 6, went to QT 5 when the stream hiccoughed, then went back to 6. All on cable.

QT6 video was better quality, the audio may have been too.

pilauh · Jul 21, 2002, 05:25 AM

QT6 here and it was perfect from start to end...

:-)

jcarr · Jul 22, 2002, 01:52 PM

<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by pilauh:
QT6 here and it was perfect from start to end...<hr /></blockquote>Ditto. No problems on our somewhat congested 3Mb connection.

dwishbone · Jul 22, 2002, 03:25 PM

watched it at work using on an iBook 500 using QT 6 over a T1. Looked fantastic. Used the MPEG streaming. Beautiful.
my fiance watched it at home. on QT 6 on a LAN'd DirecWay connection on, get this, a PowerMac 8600. She said it was was very clear. I didnt really believe her so I went home and tried it myself. all be a buggered...it was really smooth and clear.
QT 6 is da bomb!
I have to really hand it to Apple. Why do people use Real and WMP...I have no clue.

Red Wolf · Jul 22, 2002, 04:58 PM

We tried to watch the keynote on an iBook dual USB plugged into a screen projector. The iBook was running OS X, QT 6 Pro, and had an AirPort connection to a 1.5MB/s DSL connection. Nothing. We tried non-MPEG streaming. Nothing. I plugged the iBook directly into the office LAN. Nothing. I tried with another iBook running QT 6. Nothing. The G4 tower and G4 iMac had no problems what so ever on the very same connections and running QT 5. I was very ticked off.

We eventually had to watch it on a G4 iMac running QT 6, horrible size. In the middle of the keynote I had to turn the screen resolution down to 480x600 just so we could see the video without having large, square pixels. We were rather disappointed.

philzilla · Jul 22, 2002, 05:51 PM

i watched using QT6 on my 466 Ibook SE, over a cable modem in the UK. it was like watching it on television and didn't glitch once