Zephyrus of the Anemoi » streaming video http://zepfhyr.com/blog .the ramblings of a radman. Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:04:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 HTTP Live Streaming test sites http://zepfhyr.com/blog/2009/07/http-live-streaming-test-sites/ http://zepfhyr.com/blog/2009/07/http-live-streaming-test-sites/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:07:11 +0000 Zeph http://www.zephyrusanemoi.com/blog/?p=1270 Yesterday, I talked about one of the more “hidden” features of iPhone OS 3.0, HTTP Live Streaming. While I posted a link to a site that breaks down the tech behind the feature, I hadn’t actually had an opportunity to see it in action. So today, I decided to do a quick Google search and discovered two separate sites that allow you to play with this awesome, awesome new feature.

The first is from Inlet Technologies, who partnered with Akamai to create this. Now, if you’re on your iPhone, you’ll see the site proper. If, however, you’re using your desktop computer, you will see a different format of the site and you cannot watch any of the live streaming video, only video on demand. However, from the iPhone, it is easy to fire up a stream from NASA TV and just watch an endless stream of video.

The other site is not yet publicly available, but it seems that getting into the beta merely requires submitting your info and waiting for a response. You can do that here.

If you don’t have an iPhone, or if Akamai’s site doesn’t seem to be working properly for you (which might happen if you’re not using Safari 4 and the latest version of QuickTime), then you can visit this site to see an embedded video of the tech in action.

Welcome to the future. I’ll take my flying car, now.

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