I must admit, I am a “Steve Jobs keynote” junkie. I am not very proud of it, I am no Apple fan at all, I never owned anything apple in my life, and still, I love watching his keynotes, like few things else.
So I am just trying to watch this latest Steve Jobs keynote, but QuickTime is the crappiest piece of software I encountered in the last few years. I will dare to say it, its even worse than Internet Explorer 5.
When I paused it, I was unable to restart it, So I had to start again from the beginning, But there is no way to move the timeline at all! So I wasn’t able to forward to the point I was before I paused, and neither was I able to replay a misunderstood sentence.
I tried different machines, different browsers, including Apple’s own Safari, I even reinstalled QuickTime, but to no avail.
My only option now is to re watch again from the beginning, which I am not going to do. a quick Google search revealed that its not an isolated incident, Its the rule rather than the exception.
With all their awesomeness, which admittedly, sometimes borders with perfection, stuff like this shows you that they have their fair share of flaws.
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No problems here and on any other machine i’ve tried or friends who have watched the keynote. neither in the past. The streaming itself required Safari on iOS or Snow Leopard.
Well, I tried on 2 Windows 7 machines, I have not tried on a mac.
Well, it was a streaming video, so not being able to fast forward is possibly an inherent limitation because of that. If I understand correctly how streaming works, only the “present” time exists plus some buffering in the streaming server.
Now that they have it up as a regular video, you can do all ff/reverse stuff normally.
But the thing that impressed me was that the codec/quality of the picture itself was far better than it used to be in the past. It was playing without buffering or stalling at all, with better quality than YouTube. Possibly some codec enhancement in the latest 10.6.x or just some new server farm and better bandwidth from Apple’s part?