WillF said...

It is rock solid this year even over my relatively slow DSL and wireless, and the audio is excellent. Thanks!

October 4, 2008 10:21 am #

Ian Neubert said...

I am super impressed with the image and audio quality. I have it streaming from my mac to my 52″ DLP. Looks way better than my cable or sat feeds, plus its widescreen. Well done.

October 4, 2008 11:18 am #

David said...

The quality is fantastic. I have a HTPC hooked up to a 40″ LCD and it looks great. I live in northern Virginia and its better quality than we get from our cable provider. This is the last nail in the coffin for us to cancel our cable and just stick with free OTA HDTV.

Great job!

October 4, 2008 11:52 am #

Rachel said...

We’re having problems with it in Canada. Not just where I am but friends in other locations in the country also. It keeps skipping and stalling…

[JPD: Thanks for the feedback--the first we've heard it. We're looking into it.]

October 4, 2008 12:13 pm #

Bryce Haymond said...

It would be great if the Church provided embed code for the Move stream.

October 4, 2008 12:56 pm #

Paul said...

Can you comment more on how the church’s efforts to provide online versions of conference have evolved over the years? Perhaps this could be a separate blog post. I seem to remember that in the past there was a video stream that quickly ran out of bandwidth and so it buffered constantly. Then there was a time when the video stream was pulled altogether and the only thing available was an audio stream. Now there seems to be plenty of bandwidth and the quality is good. Why did you choose to go with Move networks? Did you consider Silverlight or Flash? Users are probably more likely to already have these installed.

October 4, 2008 8:05 pm #

Jordan said...

I’m guessing they chose to go with Move for the same reason several others have, especially for large live events. The Democratic National Convention used Move for their live coverage, as has Oprah several times in the past, and of course ABC and Fox. From what I’ve read, Move doesn’t require streaming servers like Windows Media (Silverlight) and Flash do; Move functions over straight HTTP so there is no need for streaming servers and maintaining a fixed connection with them. HTTP traffic is able to be cached by caching networks like Akamai and Level 3, as well as any caching servers your ISP might have, so people in the same geographic region can access the content quickly from one of these caching networks instead of having to go all the way to a fixed server.

Move’s technology looks pretty interesting to me. Shelly Palmer has written about them a few times, there’s a lot of good info out there. I’m just glad conference looked as good as it did and they’ve done a great job making the talks available on their website now after-the-fact. If you work like me, being able to go back and quickly/easily access a given talk that you missed is invaluable. Great job guys! Love it!

October 4, 2008 8:22 pm #

John said...

Hmmm…. quality looked great but it had repeating 1-2 second buffering pauses so I had to downgrade to audio only. ISP is wide open west cable in Detroit.

October 4, 2008 9:11 pm #

Brett Hinton said...

We watched the Sat AM session over it and the quality was awesome down here in Arizona. The picture was crystal clear and the audio terrific. We didn’t have any bandwidth issues arise. I was also impressed by how quickly the mp3 files for the Sat AM talks went up.

October 4, 2008 11:00 pm #

Jason said...

Sunday Morning broadcast….

We are still having stalling and what appears to be buffering here in Canada.

Any suggestions?

October 5, 2008 10:08 am #

Don said...

Other feedback … is there any way that the choir songs sung in conference can be uploaded as individual files … much like the talks? I’m not sure if there is some legal problem for doing this, but it would be wonderful to listen to those beautiful hymns sung in conference.

October 5, 2008 1:19 pm #

John said...

Update to what I posted yesterday… I was using my wife’s computer yesterday and today tried my laptop (faster cpu, more ram, same isp) and did not have any stalling. Looked fantastic.

October 5, 2008 1:40 pm #

David said...

Will other church videos be brought up to par with the same quality as conference? The other movies that are currently on the player have pretty bad quality and can not be watched full screen on a television.

October 5, 2008 3:09 pm #

Jon said...

Thanks for adding this capability. I’m not sure if I used the Move feed or not, but I used the direct mms feed that was posted on the general conference website. I used it to pipe into my Windows Media Center Extender and watch on our tv. While the quality wasn’t superb, it was the first time in 5 years that we’ve been able to watch it comfortably in the living room.

Huge kudos to your team and it would be great if byutv would provide some type of feed that was compatible with a Windows Media Center Extender.

October 13, 2008 8:10 pm #

Ian Beyer said...

Couple questions about Move:

What kind of outbound bandwidth requirements does it have?
Is it integrated with their CDN?
What kind of costs are we talking about?

We’re looking at options for streaming, and I’ve seen the quality of Move’s product on ABC’s site.

October 16, 2008 7:54 am #

Ian Beyer said...

Hmm. Player doesn’t play nice with Firefox… Boooo!

October 16, 2008 7:56 am #

Jack said...

I can’t get Move player to work with Vista. It works fine on my WinXP machine, but not Vista. The player installs just fine, but when the web page with the video trys to load, the browser (IE) hangs. Can anybody help?

October 16, 2008 7:48 pm #

Jared Spurbeck said...

I’d just like to say that I always enjoyed the Move Networks player, but darned if I can get it to work in Linux. >.>

And then the Church’s official streams are like Quicktime and Windows Media …

November 6, 2009 8:21 pm #