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Comment by mtgx | Hacker News Reader

It's the end of 2012. Use a proper media player, Apple, either Flash or a h.264 one. Just something that actually works in a browser. This is ridiculous. And if you want as many people to actually watch this, you may want to even consider uploading it to Youtube.

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I'm not sure how to get VLC to work with the browser, but Apple's using an HTML5 video tag that embeds this url: http://qthttp.apple.com.edgesuite.net/129opiygabsdvibsdfobsd....

If you open that in VLC, it plays fine.

Here's the relevant HTML:

Here is a list of clients that support HTTP Live Streaming: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming#Clients

Apple, of course, is using the new fancy HTML5 <video> tag!

But its referencing some QuickTime playlist, with a bunch of extra magic attributes. That shit is not one inch better than <embed>.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and I can't get this to work.

Why is it that just about every company on the planet can happily stream video to me, but the only ones who seem to consistently fail at it are technology companies?

Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, Safari on iOS 3 or later, or QuickTime 7 on Windows.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

> Just something that actually works in a browser.

Working fine in my browser.

What a throwback to the days of "Best viewed in Internet Explorer 5" that held the web back.

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