Comments on: New General Conference Online Video Player

By: G Smith

G Smith — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:26:20 +0000

Sat worked fine. Sunday seemed you had usual bandwidth problems. Video stopped numerous times. Wish u would get some additional bandwidth & do some regoinal load balancing as it seems the routers are throttling down due to the load. Great app – please just fix traffic probems as this is the story every year and I would really like to use this. Oh on Sunday after the last crash you could only get Saturday sessions. Thanf u for all the hard work.

By: Gabor

Gabor — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:41:27 +0000

New player is terrible, it crashes IE, Firefox on my computer and it keeps restarting on my wife’s computer. Please, no more website with this trash.

By: Valden

Valden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:24:54 +0000

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By: Valden

Valden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:23:03 +0000

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If the church is required to pay royalties because they are currently using the MP3 format, then it would also free up dollars for the church. (Based on http://vorbis.com/faq/#flic )

If the church is building its own player , then why build one that ONLY works for your Windows users and which is required to be installed by the user? Why not, then, allow this player to play the ogm and ogg streams?

The ogm and ogg formats have more capabilities (such as chapters (i.e. Individual speakers) and metadata (i.e. Title of talks)) for the Church to take advantage of as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats

For more details, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogg_Media

I am not associated in any way to or with any company or organizations relating to my suggestions above.

By: Valden

Valden — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:22:39 +0000

Along with those who asked that this be made available on the Linux platform, I add my comments:

If the church sent out media streams in the ogm and/or ogg formats, then that would allow users of Windows, Mac, Solaris, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, BeOS, OS/2, . to view and/or listen to conference. (Based on http://www.vorbis.com/software/ .)

I understand in the past disk space and cost were issues with streaming conference in both windows media and Real Audio formats. (Based on previous personal communications with the Church)

Almost universally speaking, the ogm and ogg formats take less space and bandwidth for better quality than the currently-used MP3 formats. (Based on http://vorbis.com/faq/#_fan and http://vorbis.com/faq/#_quality)

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By: Randy Quinton

Randy Quinton — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:42:37 +0000

The conference video was exceptional. When viewed at the highest quality, what effective resolution can be seen? The peak data rate was about 4.2Mbps, averaging 2Mbps typically on windows task master.

By: Andy Johnson

Andy Johnson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:36:44 +0000

I just happened to look on lds.org and thought I’d try the internet version of conference. We were already watching it live on Dish Network. I was stunned at the quality of your product. It was better than TV. I showed it on our 25″ IMac and it was beautiful. WOW!!

I went online today to try to figure out what company did this so I could thank them. So Thanks!!

By: Darlene Moeai

Darlene Moeai — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:06:46 +0000

Thank you…it was a wonderful connection for us here in Auckland NZ. No glitches aT all.

By: Michael Sugden

Michael Sugden — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:56:12 +0000

On Saturday the stream came through great and ran for hours without any problems. Sunday morning was a different story. We could not get through more than five minutes without the system (Vista 64-bit) locking up. I realized that Windows Update had installed a new video driver Saturday night. I updated my BIOS and after that the problem went away. This stream is wonderful. Thank you for all of your efforts to make this work. I really enjoy this blog too. Keep up the great work!

By: Gilbert Lee

Gilbert Lee — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:51:46 +0000

@Ben There isn’t a way to do that yet but we’re working on it. I don’t know when that will be available but we hope soon. It would definitely make it easier to share.