Patrick, great to see you back in video :) love the show and will be downloading every new show

Hey Patrick, the camera is over here!

I was unable to get he entire show either. Cut me off around the WiFi segment too. Downloading it now.

Show was excellent, it also cut off before madden talk.

work on the camera shots and the sound

But other than that it's on my list of things to watch

It has promise, but I can't even get through it. I understand that you're streaming to force viewers to sit through commercials, but if I miss something, I can't back up to replay what I missed. Worse yet, the stupid thing has restarted on me four different times so far, and I'm not even half way through. I'm afraid to check out sites during the show, because I might just restart it. Once I restarted it while looking to see if it's on iTunes. I'm serious - this issue alone is so d@mn frustrating that I'm ready to blow it off entirely in favor of TWiT podcasts and written articles. I really hate to say that, because I want so badly for this to work. The content is good, and greatly appreciated. I'm sorry, but I just refuse to waste my time any further putting up with the stream resetting back to the beginning, and having to sit through the same stories multiple times. Make it downloadable like Systm, and quit jacking with us.

Watched the show for the first time today. I have to say, it's taking me back to Tech TV days (no zdtv memories)...

Great job improvising... gg Kevin (we need more hax).

Keep it up!

Ummmmm - I'm glad it wasn't just me, it cut off right before the Madden 2K6. The sound thing I think has been pushed enough, but that was the only negative stuff.

Enjoyed what I saw immensely! Keep it up.

Awesome show! I too remember you both on the screen savers (and of course leo laporte), and glad to see the legend, Kevin Rose on this. But my question is, even though it's been out for a number of years and still hasnt picked up, do you believe that Sony's Minidisk series is doomed? I love mine and believe that in one way it is superior to mp3 players is the fact that Sony's proprietary format has such wonderful sound quality and takes less space than compairable quality mp3s. EVEN THOUGH I love my mp3s too what are your views on this?

Its great to see Pat back again. It provides a little variety between all of the techtv guys. Instead of building a set, why not place a green screen and run the show from a 'different place' each week.

Compressor/ Limiter from Behringer is only $130. Play an extra commercial.

Great show. However, I can't FF or RW the WMV as well. I'm sure the bugs will be worked out in future episodes. Keep up the good work. Thanks.

Hello please could you Patrick stop yelling all of a sudden. It's incredibly annoying and means I have to keep messing with the volume!

Check out around 17:30

I was a big fan of TechTV and this reminds of those good'ol days. I have seen the first two episodes, and enjoyed them both. It is great to see Patrick again, and inviting Kevin Rose to co-host the second episode was a nice touch.

So cool to see Pat and Kevin back. Does this mean ZD is getting back in the TV biz eventually; recreating ZDTV? I hope so!!!

Love the idea of having individual segments posted. As stated by everyone else, love the show, great to see something like the old TSS show, but free from the ignorant cable giants and gaming networks. between this and TWIT and Diggnation, im almost getting my fill of technology every week and from the right people. keep it up!!

It's a flash back to the old ZDTV days! It's great!!! Um... ziff davis... zdtv... keep'em coming. Patrick has now become Leo!

Great to see you agian Pat. On demand is great, keep up the great work.

Glad your back.

I just finished watching and it was great to see Patrick Norton again. I miss my TSS fix every day, I learned so much from that show and Patrick that I became a true PC geek! I loved the show, so do lots of them. Thanks to Kevin Rose(or whom ever) for posting the link on digg.com. Can't wait for more. Soon, I will have no need for regular TV I can watch my faves on line. Except, Leo is back with Call for Help, so watch that as well. Great show. Keep it up.

dsfsdafadsfdsaf

Nice to see you back in front of a camera, Pat. Very nice concept: Watch what you want, WHEN you want.

Keep up the good work

Pat keep up the good work! If this show is like the last two. Should be great just keep them rolling out thanks big fan:}

Pat keep up the good work! hope to see you and leo back togeter? never no again thanks river

where/what is the lionk for live broadcast?

great to see patrick and kevin back on i love the show. I hope you do extremely well and i'll try to spread the words on blogs and post thanx for putting on a show that is not filled with fluff from mindless cue card readers. screw G4.

Another great show! Robert Heron is an excellent addition to this show.

Getting an error with Windows Media Player 9 (Mac). Time is 9:50 p.m. (Eastcoast)

Finally the crew is coming back. Patrick U and the rest were so missed. Leo's back on, all of you guys R ahead of real content You know what the public really wants! We know the rest will be back with real tech by popular demand!

in windows media pat said your were having issues but then he points to the back/next button. if you look at the position bar you will see an aarrow at each end of the bar.these aarrows are ff and rew not the ones he points to. they worked for me anyway.

Just wanted to congratulate you on a SUPERB show.

Jim
London
England

Great to see all of you again. Keep up the good work.

Those buttons are at the end of the progress bar thingie. The ones next to the play/stop button are the previous and next buttons. Not very intuitive, I know. Blame Microsoft.

Saw all three episodes over the last two days, really liking it. Congratulation Mr.Pat and great job!!

Definately looking forward to future episodes.

Thumbs up! =)

What could be easier than digitallifetv, lol? You guys are doing a great job--keep up the good work! We love Patrick's show!! Woo Hoo!

IPTV Growing pains. Oh well. LOL.

Again I missed the live show. Exactly how much longer til the movie is online.

Where is the full screen button? Guess you'll have to program that into flash huh? BTW Keep up the good work! Tech TV never died. It was here all this time.

Patrick Norton you rock! I've been a fan since TSS days and just to say to see you and people like Kevin Rose doing shows via the internet is AWESOME!! What I mean is, keep up the good work, DLTV is coming along really good, every show it keeps improving and big shout out to everyone who makes this show happen!!

what time did they do the DVD jon segment. did i miss it or they didnt cover it?
BTW its a great show, i wish they would do it more often.

Looks like you are recording the show on an NTSC camera, and you forgot to de-interlace the video for episode 4.
Great show though, glad to see most of the former TechTV talent keeping themselves busy and keeping the content flowing.

Hi I found out a fix for people with HiJackThis who don't know how to use it.

You can copy and paste your HiJackThis log here and it tells you what is bad and what to remove.

http://www.hijackthis.de/

Love the new show. Good to have you back Patrick.
G4 SUCKS

I don't think I saw a DVD Jon segment in the wmv file I downloaded. Did anybody else see it? (I couldn't catch the live broadcast.)

Burns and Allen, Abbott and Costello, Hope and Crosby were only some of the greats, but they do not come close to Rose and Norton. You guys are and have been a great team. I am sooooo glad to see you guys back in a TSS version of a show. I have been in mourning for years. Love TWIT and now DigitalLife. Keep up the great job of teaching us all the good stuff about tech.

Digital Life TV is awesome! This is the first episode I've been able to watch live; everything worked perfect. The TSS guys, IPTV and podcasting are quickly making my old TV and radio seem pointless. Keep it up.

Hey Patrick Notron why is Digatal-Life TV not providing a torrent file link for the show?

Thanks Karim for being proactive and making a torrent of it.

Guys, LOVE the show!

I have a request that i'm hoping can be easy to do (assuming i can explain this well):

Can you make a single, static link that would always link the most recent show as opposed to having discrete links for each show?

I'm trying to incorporate this into my Snapstream Beyont TV PVR software. I have several internet radio stations linked such that if I click on the link, it would stream the radio station in windows media player. If i could there was one single, static link to your most recent show, i would be able to stream your show through my 10-ft PVR interface and watch while on my couch.

can this be done?

I know that some folks like the lower resolutions for the images, but I'd prefer a higher quality picture. Download via bittorrent overnight and I can watch the show next day. - MPEG4 so it plays on linux x86_64 :)

Love the show guys. Reminds me of the old days of TSS. Is there any way for Yoshi to make a guest appearence? Keep up the great work!

Hey!

Thanks for all the different formats! Great job!

Couple of constructive suggestions....

Subjectively...my opinion is that the H.264 Quicktime 7 version looked best. But you really should'nt call it "Hi-Res" since it's 320x240 :)

Really though. If you could provide something along the lines of an NTSC resolution quicktime/wmv so that when I burn a DVD or watch it on the big screen Patrick's face would look better than the pixelated mess after it gets enlarged?

I'd as for Hi-def resolution but you probably would trash my email :)

Thanks for such a great show!

For me, the mpeg and quicktime files won't play audio and the wmv files won't play video... I've tried mplayer and vlc on gentoo linux. I don't have flash because there is no 64-bit flash plugin :(

First Concert. 1976 Peter Frampton, The Beach Boys, and Gary Wright (Dream Weaver).

Hey Patrick and Robert

I love the show. Between this, TWiT, Security Now and Diggnation, I now get more tech media than I did back when TSS was on!

And I love the "unfinished rec room" look. I did a computer show on the local community cable channel a few years ago and that was exactly the look we went for on the set. Don't finish the set - the unfinished look is exactly what it should be!

Keep up the great work - I look forward to watching many more shows.

Good job Patrick and Robert. Great teaser on new LCD panels - definately let us know as they become available- I'm in the market for a home media center 30-40" and Robert's review of the Westinghouse makes me think I need to wait a little while longer for lastest models. Maybe you could include a teaser section at the end of each ep. with future product first looks and full review timetable.

I downled the HiRes H.264 .mov file and Quicktime 7.0.2 for Windows cannot open the file. Even after downloading it twice. Is there an issue with the encoding on this file? I am downloading the Windows Media HiRes file now.
Thanks.

does anyone have this they can send me?

mchipser at gmail dot com

I have a question about the formats offered if anyone could be kind enough to explain.

What's the difference between the h.264 and the mpeg4? Is h.264 considered mp4?

Patrick asked at the end of the show why a majority of us would like to see an XVID version of the show. I believe it is because of compatibility with both software and hardware, and the fact that more and more people are watching IPTV content on their televisions utilizing Media Center PC's or Divx compatible DVD players. I myself own both the Philips DVP-642 and the IO-Data Avel LinkPlayer 2, both of which play XVID and Divx (actually the DVP-642 plays XVID files depending on how they were encoded). I agree with the fact that H.264 looks really good with smaller file sizes compared to the other codecs, but many of us don't utilize it in our content viewing and encoding. I usually don't like to sit in front of my PC or Mac and watch all of the great new content like Systm, From the Shadows, Command-N, GO-Open, The Packet Sniffers, and ofcourse Digital Life TV (I wasn't successful at coverting the 2nd video episode of TWIT because it was encoded in H.264). I'm very thankful for XVID because I usually end up having to convert some of the shows I download (namely the last 2 episodes of FTS, all 13 Episodes of Go-Open, and this very last episode of DLTV which for some reason the Mp4 file wouldn't play in either my Avel or my PC). XVID is pretty much the standard for video on the Internet and is used for basically almost everything. The Revision3 crew are still posting their episodes in XVID, and it looks great on my TV! Well, hopefully my extensive rant explains at least some of the reasons why we'd like to see good old XVID. Thanks Patrick, Robert H., and all the rest of the Digital Life TV crew for bringing us the greatest tech content on the Internet! We all really appreciate it! Well, at least I do. Take care!

William

heh, did we break the server or did someone drop a camera? patrick, on twit's web site, asked us to help him break a server during dtv ep5. two episodes later, we did it! yea?

heh, did we break the server or did someone drop a camera? patrick, on twit's web site, asked us to help him break a server during dtv ep5. two episodes later, we did it! yea?

heh, did we break the server or did someone drop a camera? patrick, on twit's web site, asked us to help him break a server during dtv ep5. two episodes later, we did it! yea?

the one time i set up a windows box to watch this live feed you guys drop the ball
thanx again

It would be interesting to see more about the Windows based tools you are using for IPTV and what open-source equivalents there are.....

i can wait

as I am downloading the show now and you may cover it, but having read the usual 'don't use XP it's blah blah' I was wondering if it is XP that is quitting or the TriCaster software? When QuarkXPress or Photoshop eats an hours worth of work and trashes a system, I never hear people blame Apple.

How do you watch this show when it is broadcasted live?

DigiLifeTV has ".net" as it's icon on my Moz bookmarks, how can I change it?

The player design is pretty nice. It worked, and plays real smoothly for me with FireFox v.1.0.7. Great show too. Keep up with the Good Content.

:)

not to complain, but i had to reboot in the middle of watching it, and there isnt a way to move forward to the point where i was w/ this new player (fast forward and rewind locked?!)

my guess is so people dont FF through commercials
but i guess ill just wait for the h.264 download and finish the episode that way...

FWIW I've been wrestling with Windows Media player for almost a year now (we do 500,000 Windows Media Streams a day). Your viewers going to have raft of compatibility problems and the like. Go ahead and build a player using Flash8 with the On2 Codec. At 300Kbps, not only does it look better than Windows Media @400Kbps (saving you bandwidth), but it's much more stable and works on every platform.

If you preffer Flash7 (since 8 was just released). Flash7 Video is much more universaly supported than Windows Media, but admitidly without the On2 Flash8 codec, it's not very good quality.

FWIW we're ussing FFMPEG to dual-encode our streams into Windows Media and Flash8, but as Flash8 becomes more common, Windows Media is simply going to fade away into the background.

Good Luck
-Adam Bruce

haS IT STARTED YET CUS IT SAYS THER IS 12 MIN LEFT BUT IT,S 6:38

I was wondering how you can send them a viewer question?

It's rebuffering about every minute.. much worse than it ever was before.

sound is find, video is choppy and not watchable.

What a great job guys! Brings back memories of the Screensavers and all the neat stuff I learned from watching that show. Count me in as a new faithful viewer. P.S. I'm 43 so thanks for not forgetting about us older viewers by airing the segment on vinyl.

Hurry up! I need this show!

Great content. Keep em coming.

I loved the show, mostly about NAS but one thing I always notice is when the camera changes angles. One camera has a certain look to it and the other two looks much worse. I am refering to the color. Other than than everthing is awsome.

Really enjoyed the whole robotics segment. Very nice. The segment on the NAS Drive kit was very useful too. I'm not too crazy about the backup/storage options that I've seen in the last couple of years, so I haven't bought any of them. I like everything I saw in the segment about the kit. I don't know, it just seemed like the right approach for me. I'll probably buy that or something very similar to it for my external storage needs. Also, good of Patrick to mention Naslite (I've actually given serious thought to using that before). Good segment overall.

Also, I appreciate that you guys continue to make the relatively crappy WMP version available. h.264 looks great, but it just about kills my CPU (90-100% load constantly), and I prefer to keep its temp below 50C. I only have 1.4 GHz over here. WMP isn't as crisp, but it's easier on my hardware, so that's the one I always download for this show.

Guyz your show iz nice but how can I watch live show ??
tell on your show how to watch live show !

Hey guys, wanted to wish you all a great job on putting together a great tech program. I do want to ask if you've heard about the HDR Monitors and when you'd expect a consumer version to be available. It is the next step in the HD format and there's a great company in Canada (BrightSide Technologies) looking for investors and major manufactures to start producing their own lines. I'm an animation/ graphic artist and I'd love to see a rally for these new-gen monitors.
Scott

Hey guys quick question---I just recently bought an external hard drive. Using the software that came drive I completly copied my drive over to the external, now the question is that if I reinstall windows on my main drive will I still be able to run applications on the external drive that copied over? I've got a few programs that I no longer have the disk for and would hate to be able to lose the ability to use them. Thanks, Sean

Great episode guys, but one thing you forgot about in the antivirus/spyware tests is avast!, which I've found to be the most effective at treating almost everything having to do with crapware...

Good stream this week from start to finish. Aduio was in perfect sync the whole time, no buffering or video artifacting. (Running Gentoo Linux / Firefox 1.0.7 / mplayerplug-in)

The streaming was smooth. Good production guys! Looks like all the good folks from TSS have something solid now.
Now all you need is unlimited access to all the cool toys ZD gets to play with :) See you next week when you have the iPod Video to review...

WMV SUX

Would you consider adding the <enclosure> tag to your RSS feed? This would allow for automatically getting the shows in addition to the text content.

Just a thought. THanks.
-G.

How about an RSS feed for these puppies. I won't watch live but to have the shows downloaded in the background would make it so much easier...

For all those who want to download the WMV file here is a link I found:

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/DLTV.009.10.11.05.wmv

Be warned though, I was was not able to fast forward or seek the video ahead.

I get sound viewing the H.264 version. I would recommend downloading Quicktime 7, but I know a lot of you don't care for iTunes. I have to wonder what Apple was thinking there.

How am I supposed to watch a Tech show and trust what they say when they can't even compress their video properly. And it's not just this episode either. All episodes have H.264 as the largest download!

H.264 - 195 MB
WMV - 168 MB
XviD - 171 MB

Why would H.264 (which is more efficient than both WMV AND XviD) be the largest download! All else being equal, H.264 should come in smaller.

1) XviD is an implementation of MPEG4 "ASP"
2) H.264 is MPEG4 "AVC"
3) AVC is a superset of ASP and can do everything that ASP can.

Unless someone is asleep at the wheel it seems impossible that they can screw up the encoding settings so that H.264 is the worst codec.

Your show is great. Reminds me of the old TechTV days. Keep up the great work.

http://www.bytesofinformation.com

The ability to right-click and download the Windows Media version does not work with the current link. However, following the patter for episode 8 this link below will work....

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/DLTV.009.10.11.05.wmv

Hope that helps.

Great show!

On your last show you mentioned that there was going to be a special on HDTV. GREAT!!! But...

How bout for that show ONLY having an h.264 720p (or if you are really brave) 1080i version of the show available? Come on! Practice what you preach!

thanks again for the great show!

I was at Digital Life and saw Jim on sat running some where around 3:30. He came running into the Javits center looking around with his Treo in his hand. It was kool seeing him. Although I wish I had Seen patrick too.

Please jsut give up on these crappy windows formats. They rarely work. mp9/mp10 most borwsers dont' know hte difference and try to use the wrong codecs/protocals. result is a video or stream that jsut doesn't work for a lot of people.

I can't even play the stuff here and it's frustrating as heck. stick with quicktime for streams. xvid is nice also for downloads.

using windows formats jsut makes you appear technologically challenged. lol

Digital Life was Awesome! I went to the Xbox360 keynote on friday morning. Peter moore was the speaker, and everyone got a Xbox360 T-shirt on their chair, which was pretty cool. I also saw Jim Louderback on Friday. He was doing some presentation. I also got to play Mario Kart for the DS, and it played an looked better than I expected.

The only disappointment was that they had no playable Xbox360's. :(

And I didn't get to meet Patrick Norton, John C. Dvorak, or Robert Heron. Always Next time!

Hey Jim,
If you need help on encoding let me know. It's what I do at the post house I work at (among other things). Ask Patrick for my email address.

Warren in Burbank

I got to see the clip of the tech show...Awesome! I wasn't surprised that the Xbox 360 didn't work...again a case of trying to rush to market before everything is up and running...too bad I couldn't have been there to trade an old VCR tape for a TIVO!!!

ziffdavis gets it, congrats on digital lifetv

Now the fans of tech tv need to find out how to watch

Bart's brother

Hey you guys GOT!something good here keep it up!
Anyway was up about the USA and the rest of the world regarding the internet(something about the internet going to split apart but not into two pieces I have read?) and whats up about broadband/DSL service and the rest of the world?
Are we getting screwed? Or is this another attempt to slow the info hwy? Thanks
Please forward to Pat and Robert if this is wrong department. Thanks

Hi all, i just wanted to tell that you should display a normal URL for some of us who don't have Windows. The URL seems to be:

http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio

And it works well on Linux with the great media player Kaffeine, with windows "allcodecs" from mplayer site...

I LOVE the advertisment for the Digital Life convention that was played :p

3 Thumbs up DL_TV

:) , Very 1337

3 thumbs up for DL_TV

uber 1337 !

I agree with AJ. Great job. This is the first time I viewed the streaming version and it was great. My windows media player was running at a solid 508kbps.

As mentioned above you dont have to worry about digitallivetv.com being a hmmmm site. And you should be proud Patrick you are on both sites.

Loved the show and awsome convention. Reminded me to start looking at HDTV prices again.

SEND MORE DETAILS PLEASE

Are there plans to make episodes available thru bit torrents?

I asked, you provided. I thank you for your consideration. Everyone has an encoding/viewing preference to suit their needs, and recognizing as many as you can surely is a pain. DVTV comes to me streamed from PC to XBMC frontend, outputted to HDTV. I'll take all the bytes you can serve up. Viva La IPTV!

I just want to say enjoy watching your show. There's nothing on TV here in England like this. In fact TV is more or less useless (thanks to Rupert Merdoch). Anyhow longlive ipTV. Out of the dozen or so Video Podcasts that I watch or listen to each week this is certainly the most professional. Keep up the good work (the same goes for the builders! How long does it take to decorate a set??).

Finally I totally agree that MemTest is a superb app. Also a piece about reinstalling Windows XP would be very interesting, look forward to it.

ajax, ruby on rails and all that other stuff is waaaaaay to esoteric for this show. i am a programmer, but this kind of stuff is not of interest to 99.9% of your viewers.

it's 5 minutes before the show and the link isn't working... where is the countdown?

http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio

It didn't work with my wmplayer but it did work with vlc.

Thanks for another great show!

great show keep them comming

adaware isn't finding anything (nothing in months :) )
and I tried vlc, but it seemed to not be doing anything. It played for a few seconds then just stopped :/ didn't want to miss any more so i went back to WMP

Thanks for posting the link, joe schmoe! :-)

http://www.frappr.com/dltvviewers

http://www.frappr.com/dltvviewers

Where's my H.264 format?!!

Love the show.
One comment on the Frappr site though, it shows that I'm in South Dakota, when in fact, I am in Nebraska. There is no Chadron, S.D; it is Chadron, NE. If you zoom in enough on my little icon, you can see the city of Chadron listed in it's correct spot (NE, but my little pin is in SD and my little info box says I'm in Chadron (SD). My mind is blown.

hello there, how can you point Africa and say Brazil when you show frappr map, you guys shoul study a little bit more about the world....american are reaaly stupied in geography, it´s sad.

hello there, how can you point Africa and say Brazil when you show frappr map, you guys shoul study a little bit more about the world....american are reaaly stupied in geography, it´s sad.

How can I email a question to Robert and Patrick? I watch the shows, but never seem to catch an email address to send questions to.

Thanks.

I like to watch the show on my xbox while looking up your stories on my laptop. Unfortunately my xbox won't play the itunes feed (.m4v), is it possible to offer the h.264 stream as well? btw the show rocks.. better than the old times on ttv. Thanks.

Awesome episode! Can't wait for the name change/2 episodes per week!

I didn't have any stream problems tonight. the live show was pretty good quality and no hickups. i was even watching over wireless.

Looking forward to two shows! That's great! Sora, I also had probs with Firefox so try another browser--see if that helps! :-) Dan, if you go listen to last Sunday's TWIT you will find out why Robert's mullet is here to stay, lol! ;-) Oooo, good idea, Robert--let's see we need wallpaper and a screensaver!!! :-)

The commercials don't bother me, if anything I wish they would just play different commercials instead of the same ones every week. I was great to see the return of the sledgehammer, albeit, a smaller one. Robert the mullet has to go, it is very distracting.

I'm one of those people who listen to the audio only. So try to 'explain' a little more like what the fps looked like while you were playing it.

Good stuff.. Beats watching network TV! Long Live the Screensavers!

when it's working?

I must say, it was better then I thought, and quite good actually! For you who liked it, I would also recommend the obvious:

TWiT - This Week in Tech
Diggnation
Systm
NerdTV

and so on.

------------------------
Jorgen Veisdal.
http://jveisdal.fatalt.org

The adds are not a problem for me either.
Also the psychadelic effects of Patrick's checkered shirt didn't hurt my eyes either.
Great info & Great show!

WOW! I'm getting an amazing 10 frames per minute on my 8 meg pipe! Audio sounds good though.

WOW! I'm getting an amazing 10 frames per minute on my 8 meg pipe! Audio sounds good though.

I have watched the h.264 version since it has been available with Quicktime 7 on OS X Tiger without trouble, this week though Quicktime is crashing around the 3:46-3:50 minute range.

Just a tip on encoding. When encoding, turn off power management, don't surf web, or retrieve email, or open any windows, destination and source drives should be different and have a capable system. Let the system encode without any interruptions. I've downloaded the last 5 episodes in WMV and I have experienced this myself. Lots of jitter and skipping. My 2 cents. Still excellent show! The Screen Savers lives!!!! Attack of the Show? WTF?

Every episode has been outstanding and the H.264 version is of excellent video quality. Unfortunately while impatiently waiting for the H.264 it has arrived and crashes about 5 minutes into the program. Grr. I travel so save it for travel or a flight when away from broadband ... anyway to be sure the file is stable before unplugging from the net?

I'll redownload when plugged in to something other than my cellphone. (this comment)

Thanks for the great content ... keep up the great work.

i'm so happy you guys are doing this show earlier on thursdays. i always had to download the show after the fact.

That's a great Patrick Norton quote.

--Darren
Hak5.tv

Keep all the formats. And if you guys do a flash version can you provide a embedded code for it. Thanks.

Great show. Indepedant IP TV is the way of the future.

Another great show. One thing, Patrick's audio was really bad. Robert's was fine.

h.264 High, 111MB

WOW, somebody finally LEARNED how to do h.264?
Those files should be the smallest from the pack, jet that was'nt always the case.

I was one of the 50 Stormtroopers there working the show! And I also got a TIVO. Thanks for the videos from the Con.

I got episode 14 (Thur 10) and past the halfway point it crashes itunes. Anyone else with this problem or is it a quicktime thing?

If given a choice between WMV and XVID I would consistently choose XVID. But I don't get to make that choice, because the XVID link is frequently missing. Normally this is a non-issue, because I still get to see the show, and normally nobody cares anyway, but Pat was quoting format statistics on the show.

Please keep the XVID, and if possible, make it available near the same time as the other streams.

Also, how much work do I have to do to watch those MP4 streams on my PSP? Are they already formatted as needed, with the "atom" in the file header set to make the PSP happy? If not, what do you guys do to watch the MP4 stream on a PSP?

Hi its great to see you guys back on the air
but what happened with episode #4?

Gerry

ahmmm...who's Megan Morrone? heheheheh....

Anyway, the reason I want the shows in HD is because I can't read any of the text when they feature websites.

Thanks all.....

ok so i wanted till midnight at a store got my Xbox 360, no i didnt wait outside we watched the special on G4, anyway if i had no choice i would AT THIS TIME choose xbox 360 it seems to have the same stuff PS3 is going to have PLUS harddrive and customization now i may change my mind sell the 360 and get PS3 its all depending on how it goes

p.s. Whats up with nintendo revolution never hear anyone talk about that much

HD Video:
One viewer had a question about how to take high-quality video from his camera to his HDTV and preserving its resolution. How about editing with an application of choice, and then exporting to WMV-HD and playing on a WMV-HD compatible player? I am not a big fan of WMV, as a Mac user, but it would be another option in this case.

There is even a Mac encoder at flip4mac.com (granted it costs a pretty penny, unlike the Windows version, but of course, not having to actually run the Windows OS to create WMA/WMV content is priceless :D )

Low End Mac hint:
Someone above posted that they were using a lower end Mac system and having little luck with the H.264 version. I have a 1999 "Sawtooth" AGP G4 450mhz system, with plenty (704 MB) of RAM, and have trouble with H.264 at high bitrates myself. I have had good results downloading the MPEG-4 version of DL.TV. It can be played at original size with nearly its full original frame rate in the QuickTime Player, or it can be played full screen using Mplayer. Mplayer seems to be a little better at squeezing video performance out of older processors. It helps to check the "Drop frames on slower machines" option in Mplayer preferences.
I will also say H.264 must be heavily optimized for G4/G5/Intel(?) because G3 machines (I tried on a 700mhz dual USB iBook) *really* have trouble even with medium bitrate H.264 files. I would also advise Mplayer with the above option for all G3 users.

Mplayer:
http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net/
(Note carefully that the latest version is only compatible with OS X 10.4. Go back to version 2b8r4 for 10.3 (that's what I use). It is incorrectly listed as 2b9r4 at the above link, but when you download it, you will see that it is indeed 2b8r4.)

Tony, H.264 takes forever to encode, which is why it comes up last...

Hmm... I doubt this is very practical to anyone else, and a huge bandwidth eater, but a nano-ized video format would be cool. I watch dl.tv on my nano through ipodlinux each week, forcing me to re-encode to uncompressed AVI.

It's a tedius process, using VirtualDub, the only way to get a video stream is through xVid, it doesn't recognize any others.

I then download the .mp3 only and covnert that to a .wav

VirtualDub then takes the xVid and .wav and forges them into an uncompressed AVI stream. Total running time is around an hour and a half, two hours with download times.

If you guys are thining about it, send me an e-mail and I can let you know the vid specs. (email in URL link above)

-Mike

Ok, I know it takes a while to encode the h.264, but my dual 533MHz Powermac could have finished the encoding by now. Probably the XviD as well.

Let's get on the ball here fellas. No Thanksgiving turkey for you until you finish the encoding. :D

ok not to discount microsoft so early but i can't shake the feeling that the xbox360 will be the next dreamcast.

I was wowed in 99 when i saw the dc but shortly after i bought it, i realised it was a mistake, the graphics were good, and sometimes looked better than the ps2 but it became clear that games were just not comming out on the dc... well not enough anyway.

it was strong before the launch of the ps2 but after it just withered and died.

I see the same thing here with the x360 ... first few month having strong sales then dying off after the ps3 is released (whenever that is)
the fact is the ps3 will most likely have better third party support and better media and better specs
again the x360 can have better graphics than the ps3 in certain situations but overall i see less games on the x360 and many being better or the same on the ps3

what microsoft and sony understand it is the exclusives that win battles and for me, right now, i don't see anything on the x360 that i must get that i can get elsewere.

Yep i love this show, its a very good TSS replacement since G4 messed it all up, Keep Up the good work!

I listen/watch Twit All the time. Leo is cool.

Yet again you amaze me GREAT SHOW!!!!

Thanks DigitalLife TV crew for another great episode.
I liked the explanations you give for BitTorrent and look forward to your upcoming Thursday December 1, 2005 episode on creating BitTorrent tracker files to seed files on BitTorrent.

The reason the H.264 release is later than the MP4 is that the h.264 codec requires a ton of processing power and can take longer than the running time of the show to encode. MPEG4 is much less processor dependant and encodes very quickly.

Steve

TechTV Was the bomb... Call for help and The Screensavers were my two favorite shows of all time!

Is it just me, or in Windows Media Player on teh downloaded version, is it impossible to skp forward in teh show now? Cuase there are certain segments that bore me, so i just skip the next, but with the latest ep i wasn't able t do so. And its not like i'm watching it live, i downloaded it after the show was over and i can't skip parts.... this happening to anyone else or just me?

i got that issue too. i think it was just messed up, i dled a different version.

The H.264 version cuts off around 39:24. The total runtime for this episode appears to be 40:21. Any plans to re-release a H.264 version containing the final minute and a half, or so?

Thanks.

If I started to play the file before it is fully downloaded, I was not able to skip around. Once I let it fully download, I was able to skip at will.

I'm with John on this one. I had the same thing happen. It cut right in the middle of the show. Everyone knows cliff hangers are a big tease, not cool. good show so far. lol

- talk about audio encoders, Patrick says "with lossless encoder you lose much less detail" err WHAT? with LOSSLESS you lose nothing. Its Loss_less .. get it? :)

- Firefox talk, Patrick couldnt fing 1.5 final, instead said something about RC3. Well, F

Wow you're doing a show this early? Good thing I just happend to come along here and saw this. Yippie!

Umm.... what's going on? no show.

I've formatted Episode #17 to the correct size and specs for playback on the iPod Nano.

It will launch from the "File Browser" inside of podzilla.

Here is the link for the torrent, if you'd like to http host, please let me know! (It's a big ~2 gb file)

Torrent Link: http://thepiratebay.org/details.php?id=3416337

Email: mikeknoop at gmail.com

I split the .avi into 2 parts, so that the File Browser would be able to handle it.

-Mike

I want a HD version encoded in XviD now!

Forget about the other versions - people can go transcode it to however low-res they want from the HD version (if it becomes availiable...).

I mean, come-on, you give us all those great advice on getting HD ready and you serve us a 480 x 360 version!? Doesn't make sense...

You might not care how large an HD file size would be, but the guys paying for the bandwidth might. I would also bet that there is not a lot of requests for DL.TV in HD to justify the added expense.

What would HD add anyway? I can't see HD adding much more to the show except that with the added clarity and sharpness, you might actually be able to see the reflection of a camera in Patrick's bald spot ;)

I understand the call for more HD content, but for a 'talking heads' type show?

I have the bandwidth...

I have the disk space...

I have the 1080p TV...

Give me an HD version! I don't care how long it takes to download!

by transcoding WMV that HE was trying to re-encode from the WMV to another format in which case I agree - re-encoding a compressed format to another compressed format is asking for trouble ;)

Here's one idea I'll throw out there - put one high quality file out there and let everyone encode to their taste.

I do agree that the XviD seems like it could be better for the file size - or has WMV codecs gotten that much better recently? The WMV looks better in my opinion than the XviD.

I think the lesson is that no one format will please everyone and there will always be people who expect the highest quality. Watcha gonna do?! LOL

Patrick, go with single format!

You mentioned:
"Hey, they're three times the size... we average 150 to 200MB per show. TWiT's doing 600. And they're doing a single format. (That is tempting"

If you scrap the other formats (WMV, MOV (H.264), M4V (iPod), MP4 (MPEG4)), then we shall enjoy a single, hi-quality version of the show approximating 700 MB :-P !
(140*5 - roughly, including XviD's current file size.)

And even if you decide you must keep WMV, the XviD version would still approximately be 560 MB - which is way better than the current version...

Yo Dish has had an HD DVR for about or over a year! Does everyone hate dish like they do comcast(although you did show a comcast product)

its sad what comcast did to TechTV...bring back old ZDTV, haha! (you are Ziff Davis still right) or more acurately ZDIPTV

Just had to say -

Sittin here waitin.....

Steve

you guys gotta let me come work for you!
~nick

You do realise that nobody is forcing you to download and watch the show. If you don't like the show why are you wasting your bandwidth downloading and posting on the site? Oh and please learn to turn off the caps it makes reading what your writing harder.

Now I'm no fanboy there are certain parts of the show I don't like, so I just skip through them. We have so little Tech programming here in the UK it's great to have access to a show that's free. Even if it is HD TV focussed.

Thanks for another show guys.

Hiren

Did you guys just give out viewer email addresses on the show when you showed "Coming up... We have the answers!"?

I believe you guys typed Fiji instead of Fugi in your lower third. Great show by the way.

Sounds too good to be true, but i guess retailers are looking for feedback this holiday season, as a result they're handing out some big ticket items. My friend already got his UPS tracking number. Check it out.

Episode 19 for the video iPod:

Available Wednesday

Which Wednesday would that be?

I really like your show (podcast). Since TSS is gone no one did it as well as ya and Leo..no one had any answers as to what was any good etc.. Thanks many times......

Loved the hdtv show! It made some things clearer as I look to upgrade from my 3 year CRT 30 inch. I'm glad you brought up FREE broadcast as the best HDTV is free. I repeat, the best HDTV is FREE! Letterman, Leno, Superbowl, NFL, Saturday Night Live. But what I like most is PBS and Jim did a disservice to it. Awesome programming in addition to the regular feed, at least in Philly. Check out Smart Travels and Nova. No need for Discovery!

>Me too, no wmv for me

your not the only one

"Why can't you guys have more cars, bling and hoochies like them other shows on G4?"

How dare you place those two letters together and bring that filth upon us.;)

This is a GREAT show. But when I open up PC Mag's site, you're in a little box off to the side. CNET is better at pushing it's video content. I think Ziff Davis is smarter and more well rounded content, but if nobody knows you're there, then who cares? Call marketing and tell them to step it up a noch.

Is there a GPS Card for LapTop Compters?

C'mon guys, you are gonna have to do better about getting all the video flavors out in a timely manner. It's really not that hard.

Patrick said they were tweaking thier various codecs this week.. Im guessing the ones they are missing blew up on them.. Im very sure they are working on it ;)

Ill wait for the H.264 personaly, For some reason that format looks best on my system :)

*cheers*

I guess you mean Friday the 16th for that h.264?

i think it's supposed to be yesterday but I guess they're slow

I was wondering since they put those hidden files on the cd's did they put them on the dvd's also? Awesome show though nice quality.

I agree that for me H.264 is the best and well worth the wait. Great shows guys and happy holidays to you and the crew.

I don't care that the H.264 version gets out later (although it is my prefered version), but it's annoying that they say it will be out when it isn't. Don't set a date on the site if you can't keep it, it's much more annoying releasing it a few days after the WMV AND after you said you would be out than just releasing it a few day after the WMV. It's Sunday and it's not out when below the header it says it will be out Friday. Not cool.

Robert, Patrick, you there?

If you guys cannot post the video in the formats you support than change the dates listed on your site. This is starting to make you look like the guys over at G4. After a while people just will stop coming back.

I like H.264 the best because it works and looks good
and most importantly for me it's usually the smallest file size. I'm still on dial up and I use a download manager to get the show, it takes me a couple of evenings to get it, because I get disconnected after two to three hours. I like the show and hope it keeps going.

Great work guys. And the size you have gotten the H.264 down to is GREAT!

Don't worry about these guys crying about it not being on Friday. Keep up the great work. Watching this and TWiT back to back was a couple of good hours of IP/TV.

BTW, thanks a lot Robert for mentioning the Sage RSS extension for Firefox. I am hooked on it! haha

Well...

Looks like the H.264 version was a disaster. It's now half the size/at a lower resolution....and it looks worse than the mpeg 4 version. Not that I don't appreciate the work you guys have done to to tweak it. I guess you just gave up this week and decided to "get it out".

Oh well...better luck next time I suppose...

BTW...on the hi-def/widescreen version. I'd be HAPPY to download a high-def version using bittorrent or something (and I'd stay with the swarm to contribute bandwidth)

I'd be extremly happy to have a hi-def on a torrent. I'm on a university connection with plenty of bandwidth to seed.

H.264 now looks as crappy as wmv :D

Now its time for a 200MB H.264 full PAL/NTSC version.

Hey guys! I normally max out my download speed of dl.tv at around 250 kb/s, but today instantly I got 1016 kb/s. Here is proof: http://tinypic.com/iog3v9.jpg
Greet job guys! I have never had downloaded video download so fast!

BTW: Imageshack is down, hopefully there won't be problems with tinypic.com

please, link to the flash, don't throw it in my face every time I visit the site. also, the downloads have gotten a little sluggish. some bittorrent would be nice.

I kind of like the flash, and personally I think it's needed if you are going to grow as an audience lets face it, your average joe is not going to want to sit through a 150mb download just to preview a show that he, may or may not like.

when do you guys update the feeds?

Maybe tonight is the DL.TV christmas party.

Yah..for a WMV it has been a very long time, but hey I m sure they are working as hard as they can....well we'd hope. I wonder if they actually read this thing?

HEY SOMEBODY AT DL.TV, IF YOU ARE READING THIS ANSWER...

How does Leo make money on TWiT? I mean AOL is only for bandwidth.

I sure hope Leo would make something like DL.TV....in addition....more shows the marrier!

Ok, you have a point... But what does it take to render WMV... Sony Vegas or even as simple as Window Crappy Movie Maker 2 can handle the task to at least get the show out. I'd personally be willing to help render if anyone asked. I just think as professionals as they are, a promise for something to come out on a certain day is what should happen. Non-geeks wouldn't stand for this; let's make IPTV as 1337 as possible and not unstable.

Wat the hell is taking so long!...its been like 9.5 hours...tell us wats going on...so we dont stay up waiting PATRICK NORTON!

Patrick,
Just to give you an idea of whose been putting in their 2 cents about encoding, I'm the guy who works in a video post house in Hollywood who sent you the Serenity poster a few months back.

I worked one of the cameras on Twit Eps.#30 from the Podcast Expo in November with the Pixel Corps crew. (I'm at the end of the show when Alex introduces the crew on the shoot).

I watch show each week and you guys do a great job.

Warren in Hollywood (working)

"Even with the fastest cpus commercially available, the encode process is still not real time"

Warren, what are you talking about? AVI is not a codec, its a containter and has nothing to do with encoding time. Real time encoding is possible since Pentium 3 processors, I did it with my old VHS camera back in the days (full pal divx).

It may be the end of dl.tv, there were rumors about shuting it down.

*sigh*

Today...well theres three hours left for Pacific Time for "Today"

Give us the update why its taking so long...we're not mad...were impatient technology ppl...who Digg and knock on Price Right Photo

Party on dudes, it's been like this ever since Wayne and Garth fixed up the basement. Nothing ever took this long before they had walls

Seems like the H.264 doesn't work.

Rush.

Warren is right, his statement is a little out of context. It is not currently possible to transcode from one format to certain other codecs in real time (or faster than real time) with out special dedicated hardware.

e.g.: DVD video. MPEG-2 video is VERY host cpu intensive. With the latest round of ghz upgrades to intel cpus it's possible to encode MPEG-2 in near real time.

Video capture cards, like the one you used to transfer your videos with has a special DSP chip in it whose only reason to exist is to do that transcoding in real time.

So.. in short.. hardware realtime transcoding has existed for a LONG time. Software realtime (especially if it's multi-pass) transcoding still isn't quite there yet.

Anyone have issues with the H.264 version.
Mine cut off after the Gizmondo / Ngage part?

Thanks...yesterdays rendering time was nuts...but this makes everything better

H.264: when it's done. Why not post that instead of a date that you can't keep?

H.264: when it's done. Why not post that instead of a date that you can't keep?

Very, very true. I would not mine if you wrote that it would not be available until two or three days later, just that you guys keep posting one thing and delivering another.

Is it really that difficult to update your webpage?

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-main-105-1.htm

source mpeg-2, two pass, high bitrate, almost all realtime, any more insightfull comments from Jeff/Warren? :)
I can do one pass low bitrate divx (looks like wmv9 version of DL.TV=crap) on my P3 1GHz in realtime.

Loved this episode. The game segment was great. That gaming guy(forgot the name of course) is funny. I wound up with tears running down my face; I was laughing so hard. My wife thought I was losing it (which of course I was).

does it take a week to create an h.264 and video ipod version of this? i'm not able to use a lot of bandwidth, so i don't want to download it once in divx then again for my ipod. if it's got to the point of being a week delay for these formats, using videora or something, just get it out there

DL.TV is great. Keep it simple, Keep Jim L in the background, keep more guest coming, keep both co-host, keep up the content,keep geeky, keep on being a bit edgy without the sledge hammer, keep digressing (Sic) juist stop using the word, keep the reviews, keep the honest reviews, keep the commercials you gotta eat, keep promising mac segments but deliver soon, keep promising to bring Leo on for a spot maybe on Mac?? DON'T invite The I Get No Spam MAN ):

Definately, the h.264 really adds an aura of network professionalism - together with the fantastic content and banter. Top class all round.

is ep 25 tonight 1/3/06

Do we have a show tonight?...i wouldnt be supprised if there wasnt...its raining alot in SF

2 WEEKS!!! sounds like that is one crappy machine ya'll are rendering it on.

professional my butt.

How about updating your loyal fans as to when you'll be broadcasting? I swear every Tuesday/Thursday I tune in, only to find the fee not available. So then I wait in case the feed is going to be late, and in this case, am still waiting 10 hours after the fact?

Would it be too much to ask for an updated feed schedule? And possible a more stead schedule? Thanks for letting me vent.

Guess what ladies? Holidays are over.. work is calling. :)

Your email link needs fixing it doesn't launch into mailto link
see your webmaster

Loved the Martin Sargent Segment.

and for Who?? the Friday and Saturday shows where mentioned at 43:10 - 43:13

How can I get an RSS2.0 feed on my PSP without a PC?

I almost don't miss being there. Keep it up. Tons of stuff per episode...we like it,do we? Martin scares me too:).Real freak-geek:].

Nice, another episode!

I'm really glad you guys can show me all those cool gadgets from CES!

You guys definitely deserves a break after CES is over!

Ya first post...waiting for the video...CES is the best!!!!

I dunno if you've noticed, but what's up with having 2 different area where you can post comments on for the same episode?

Here's the ^other^ area where you can post comment for this episode...:
http://digitallifetv.com/blogs/digitallifetv/archive/2006/01/07/4188.aspx

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(Still waiting for the video... I hope I can get it when I get up tomorrow... - Oh, btw., please bring back XviD!

That little DivX experiment you did a few episodes ago worked quite well - but I would prefer if you can have the same resolution BUT encoded in XviD ;-) )

Loved the episode guys. I heard a nice big word used by patrick and I would like to hear more of them. I remember him saying the producers want him to stop, but I think the audience should be brought up to a higher level rather than the show dumbing itself down in any way. Dumbing a show down is what has happened to TSS/AOTS and it has some really bad results. Keep on geeking out, talking intelligent, and breaking nerd stereotypes!
P.S. Martin Rocks

Really enjoyed the CES coverage.

A little link hacking....

Enjoy

I guess it makes the links automatically.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/ces3/dl.tv.ces.3.m4v

Thanks for the link, noname.

Why do they upload the m4v file and not post the link?

The link for the audio is faulty guys!

time test

I think they are in the process of compressing/uploading the videos now.

I love dl.tv's CES coverage. You guys are doing a great job! Keep it up!!

This weekend would have been really boring if it wasn't for your CES coverage. Thanks guys. I personally don't care if some of the keynotes where a little late, just makes everyone worry when there's no word on what's going on, and keynotes are boring anyway. :P Can't say the same for the show, though. Keep it up. :)

Hey guys. I'm a Mac user and I'm having a lot of trouble downloading the formatted for iPod Video version of the shows. They download as .txt documents and I can't seem to get them open. Is there something that I'm doing wrong, or are y'all just not Mac friendly anymore?

hi eli you simply have to right click on it in safari that should do it then press download linked file or cut and paste the url in the url field of quicktime if you want to view it off the server but for dowloading I do not know I have a mac I am using right now and I downloaded it fine with safari.

good luck

The missing Link:
http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/ces3/dl.tv.ces.3.mov

Good to see Martin again. Fast forward if you don't like him. I love freedom of choice.

JC

the WMV link is wrong - here's the correct link:
http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/ces3/dl.tv.ces.3.wmv (240MB)

Martin Sargent offensive? >_> gimme a break.

Hey guys, the Windows media video link gives a 404 File Not Found error...

Give me a break. If you give your 11 year old child free reign to download stuff from the internet, you will surely find that Martin Sargent is amongst the least offensive.

It is up to you as a parent to guide your child. Don't limit all available entertainment/information to the least common denominator (I don't think we should all have to watch childrens shows). The internet is not the problem it is your parenting skills. If you want to make sure your child isn't exposed to the real world, then keep them in a box with a bible and a candle.

This should like to the WMV version

Im with left winger, we all shoudnt be forced to watch kids shows. Martin was doing what Martin does, hes always been like this, going back to old TSS. So maybe when you heard he was gonna be on you should have done something, maybe just wait till you can dl it and fast forward. I cant even think of anything he said or did that could be worthy of Ms. Farnsworths outrage, give me a break the rest of us dont need another mother. Some of us love the guy and DLTV I hope you bring him back many more times, its always great to see some of the old crew together.

It is not DL.TV's job to raise your child.
Good grief, Patrick does more than he needs to as it is
to keep things generally decent. Tune into the Barneycast
or something.

Keep up the Great Work DL.TV.

I would rather watch hardcore porno or Martha Stewart before Martin.

Martin is a good jerk off wasted.

Last year I bought a computer from Best Buy with a DVD-RW drive. When I got it, I intended to (eventually) use for strictly maintenance purposes, backing up files, maybe archiving DL.TV episodes (to share with friends who are still on dial-up), etc..

I never got around to trying to actually burn a DVD until recently, and the software provided with my system is utterly wretched. Can you recommend a good, inexpensive (free) app for burning data to DVDs?

The system is WinXP, the DVD app on the system has escaped me at the moment, since I'm typing this at work.

Much thanks, love the show
Craig

Great job guys - I love the show and this coverage is exactly what the geek in us needs. Martin is his usual funny self and I don't think that takes away from anything! Feels like the old days back on TSS(miss all you guys!). At least now I've got a show to watch that brings back TSS in a great way! Thanks again!!

I just wanted to put in my 2 cents and say that I loved seeing Martin again, and thought that his CES coverage was great.

I really hope DL.TV decides to have him on in the future. His jokes may be juvenile, but his segments really helped bring a lighter tone to the show. I love tech content, but a little humor inbetween gadget segments never hurt anybody. He was an asset to these 3 CES specials, and I hope that you don't let the opinion of the one above poster that had a problem with him sway your opinion as to whether to have him back or not. The minority that disliked his antics can simply fast forward through the segment. This lets the rest of your viewers enjoy his nonsense while those who are easily offended are left unscathed.

-Joey Papperello MD, PhD, USB (tikibar tv reference)

Absolutely liked the CES special, please keep up the good work.

Lorne Farnsworth, your son is old enough to star learning about those things, stop smothering him.

Eli, try using Firefox or something else to download, Safari tends to put .txt at the end of *.mp4, *.m4v, *.sitx files.

The itunes links don't work either and my list isn't updating with the dl.tv feeds.

HI I think you should let up on the lady I mean is it just because she is a lady or what even the two chinese girls didn't seem to like his jokes that much and they are adults and Robert said that Martin is going to get told that he shouldn't do things like that so I mean you people are like lady killers as if she intends to keep her son in a box ya right the only girls you people like are the ones you can have sex with and don't have one wrinkle on there body.

but I personnely like martin but for thelady don't be so negative and I'm sure some of you didn't even read her post properly.

Actualy i'm out not reading or wathing any of this crap dl.tv stuff again if you people are going to act like idiots.

No offense to the hosts!

Congrats on a set of Great Shows from CES!

The 3 shows från CES were just great!! Better TV than anything else I've seen. Compering to what the swedish press have given us in our papers you ROCK.

Keep up these gadget showes.

Even Sweden loves you

You guys did a fantastic job of covering CES. I didn't miss an episode and plugged in most every link you 'displayed' on dl.tv. (hint...always put referenced link on screen visually ... soft 'advertisers' take note)

Looking forward to your Tuesday and Thursday dl.tv broadcasts and feel that is the perfect format for covering technology. Thanks ...

You guys are working hard! Great shows at CES and I don't care what anyone says.. we need more of the Sarge!

Hey guys, I enjoyed the CES show throughly. I just want to thank you guys for all your hard work, especially the people behind the background!!

Kudos guys!

They normally show a windows media player link for the live broadcast.

4 minutes to go ...

Awsome CES Show Guys, and it's really nice that you all had three shows rather than one, but i just wishs you all had like one person give a little info on MAc world, and the new Intel Macs, but Good Job and thanks for keepin it free.

Pleeeease......before it's TOO late....
Martin ruined TechTV, don't let him ruin DLTV too!

Awesome! The H.264 version downloaded by Juice less than 24 hours after the show aired. That's what I'm talkin' 'bout. Where all the people who complained about how long it takes now? Keep up the good work!

Hmm, I'm having trouble downloading this, at least the WMV version - it gets to a few hundred KB and kicks the bucket.

Bring on the bittorrent I say!

hi patrick

you said in dl.tv 25 that you are using final cut pro to convert the video content from dv to the different content types offered here and listened to an interview frim chuckchat.com where you said you dont like people saying your wrong about everything which i guess is people complaining about the lack of xvid ( yes i want xvid and no i dont like divx )

so here are three tool that you can use to convert dv to divx and other formats

ffmpegX
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/index.html

AutoGK
http://www.autogk.me.uk/

How to convert DV to DivX or XviD using Virtualdub
http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=244151

and as somebody that people in podcast i listen to say has "golden ears" please try ogg vorbis a bit more it sounds better for all my music and takes less space ( its sounds better then mp3 and aac to me )

mentioning ogg and flac in the show would be nice too

i hope this help

thanks for the nice show

Can't he just use gspot to find out the codecs he needs?

I have a Phillips DVD player that plays XVID or DIVX files, so I like to burn these to disk and watch them on my TV at home.. please bring back XVID or DIVX.
Thanks.

Her it is Monday and my Juice podcast catcher still only has episode 25 as the latest. Looking at the XML of the feed that is all I see here as well. Why is that?

Hey Guys the show is great. Keep up the great work. I like the reviews. I was wondering if it would be possible to eport the show in mpeg2 format for displaying on the TIVO. It would be great to watch your show on my tv. Thanks for the consideration.

hahahaha

You all can verywell encode the WMV into Xvid and DivX and whatever else format there is

get ya a copy of ImTOO MPEG Conveter and Do it yourSelves!!!!!!!!!!!!

So it'll help ease on the Crew doing the Rip/encoding after the show

Get a Life if you cant reencode from wmv

Sorry but tis true

A forum would be great to discuss the show.

I can't get episode 28 to work either. Downloaded it twice (usually works, but not this time).

Well, third time's the charm...I hope.

You people crying about codecs, GET OVER IT!

It's a FREE show for god's sake. Ask politely if you need a particular codec, instead of stamping your feet like a spoilt brat.

Some people today have had it too easy with p2P and everything but the kitchen sink handed to them on a silver plate. Take take take is the new mantra for these neophites, it's actually sad.

I say, keep up the great work DLTV. And patrick; you're presentaion skills have drastically improved over the last dozen episodes, well done.

Thankyou DLTV for a great show!!!!!!

Episode 28 wmv file restart after few minutes. I cannot seek to the point where it stopped.

Previous episodes were perfect. Please fix that problem.

I can't get any downloads started atm? zdpub.vo.llnwd.net is either down / hung or overloaded. The mind boggles as to why you don't use BT?

DVIator converter has ABSOLUTELY NO electronics inside, how two of you can be so wrong so often ? :/

Its the same deal as with the HDMI connector (HDMI = DVI + audio)

ADC = DVI + VGA + USB + power
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/Macintosh_CPUs-G5/PowerMacG5/3Input-Output/chapter_4_section_12.html

No electronics, just connectors

its sad that you call yourselfe professionals and yet make such mistakes

I love the show, but i'm a lounge room watcher.
whats so tough about XVID? the Revision 3 guys are doing it now and it looks great.

I dont get it re the need for HD formats for a show like this anyway. its about content, not how it looks - but as long as i can see it, thats all i ask.

interset

The filefront links are very slow. Please don't put your files there. The same problem happenned to the 1UP show. Keep it off filefront.!!!!

It was nice to see Alex Lindsay on. Great show as always, with or without Robert getting naked, lol! ;-)

Maybe the guy who wanted a free publishing app would like to checkout Scribus. It's a free open source app that is available for Windows, OSX and Linux.

http://www.scribus.org.uk/

I'm in Daytona Beach, FL with 1.5Mbps BellSouth DSL and it stays at a steady 140-150KB/s.

getting about 540 KB/s, or 4600 Kb/s. Geeks know there is a difference. I'm on a 4 Mb Mediacom cable line. In short I'm getting full bandwidth.

I am in northern Maine using Time Warner cable and I get anywhere from 500 - 750 kBs

I am getting 4300 KB/sec in my dorm room at North Carolina State University. Gotta love college bandwidth.

What is better for watching Dl.tv on a 1440 x 900 display?

H.264 or DivX?

Aaron, I've found the H.264 seems a much higher res/better quality than the DivX, although that might just be my personal opinion. I'd like to hear what the guys think about this though.

I went from 600Kb to 2Mb. Everyone with slow downloads should fix their TCP settings. Go to dslreports.com and run the Tweak Test. Analyze the results then download DrTCP to fix your settings. Most likely your RWIN is way too high and MTU is off. Then reboot and run Tweak Test again to see the improvement.

Also, the speed can be doubled or more by installing a Download Accellerator.
Just go to Tucows and get one such as Fresh Download and use that.

I would like to point out I downloaded episode 30 (DivX)

I would like to inform Robert Herron that there is an add-on for the iPod to allow you to receive FM radio. It's made by Griffin Technologies and is called the iFM.
http://tinyurl.com/dlnyy

like your show. I am 57 semi retired and like to

keep updated on computer stuff. I have a mac

I have a xp dual processor to learn photoshop and I have a computer with Fedora 4 on it. It is my favorite machine . I learned more about computing
working with linux then windows. hope you have more linux stuff in the future. I live in Billings Mt.

Filled it out. I'm 15.

Wow! It took 40 minutes @ 77.7kbs. We had high winds here in central NC overnight which caused static in the lines this AM. Should I create a syringe skin for WMP9? I'm beginning to feel like a DL.TV addict!¶=0) (Krado wearin' duck bill hat)

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode31/dl.tv.031.wmv

LOOK AT THE LINK ADDRESS!!! ITS OWNED BY ZDPUD!! DUH

MEANING IF IT WOULD BE SPAN IT WOULD BE FROM THIS SITElol.. YOU MUST BE UPSET THAT I AM POSTING THIS EARLY FOR EVERYONE.. PS>>> HOW CAN I BE A SPAMMER WITHOUT SOMONES EMAIL.. I THINK YOU MEANT SPYWARE DUMBASS

cheers

I'm not one for taking surveys, but I did cause I want to see DL.TV stay alive. Just please don't backstab us with a million more commercials than needed :P. On another note I love the show it's great, and don't try to be to prefect the imperfections are great, they remind me you all aren't evil.

Read the Terms and Conditions of the contest. If you're not in the U.S. you don't count.

I have a 1.5mbit line, but yet it always only gets the download at 40-50KB/s, what's up with that?

Hmmm. I'm getting download speeds of 500 to 600KB/s.

awesome episode as usual, xcept i liked the format u guys had earlier becus for sum reason i could watch ur show rite away when i clicked on watch but now u have to clikc the link and the hosting server is dam slow! but thats technical ur show is great!!!!

patrick and robert
love hear free tech once again
like the show, and ie7 is great.

Curious George, what more do you need in a modern video game! Keep up the great show guys and gals.

WHy not use h264 ?? K Boogie ? please name me ONE devie except the IPOD and PSP that can play h264

I will tell you its NONE thats why it sucks. NOTHING can play it !

I like divx because most anything plays it including a set top player I have. in place of that I live with mp4 at least it works. I have not tried to play it in my set top player I doubt it will work though.

I can convert these shows to divx in 20-25 minutes and thats on a 1.7g celery with 256mb ram there is no reason not to offer divx fast. if you want less formats DUMP h264 its useless since both the IPOD and PSP will play mp4 sp.

The WMV version is also utterly useless but since the tricaster outputs this anyway It makes sense to use it.

The problem with encoding it myself it is looks a lot worse after double coding it.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

I want something I can play on my DVD player in my lounge room.

You've got 3 formats that will play on any PC but don't have an hour to encode to DIVX.

Why have MPEG4 AND H.264?

smaller, faster, better ... love it.

I love the show. I've been a fan now for a couple weeks. I prefere the AVI container for compatability with programs like VirtualDub or whatever. I also prefere the Xvid codec over DivX mainly because Xvid is open source, and I like to support that.

WMV makes me twitch. Has anyone else out there downloaded a WMV file, only to have a window pop up telling you that you have to install their ActivX ad/spyware before you can view the video? Add to that the anti-copy code and I think WMV should be avoided at all costs. I'm seeing a disturbing trend of WMV and WMA usage. These formats make it much easier to control the distribution of information. It can also coherce people with "If you really want to enjoy the media you just spent hours downloading, then you won't mind installing our special helper applet (ad/spyware), and we're so sure you'll just love it that we'll do everything humanly possible to prevent you from ever removeing it from your system."
With MS doing everything they can to get people to swap over to the WMV/WMA formats, how long will it be before Microsoft has total control over our media?

oops, looks like I went on a little rant. Sorry.

Patrick mentioned that they might be going back to Xvid, in one show. I have to say though H.264 is by far the cleanest format of the show. I'm an Xvid fan myself, but since I just watch DL.TV on my computer H.264 works.

Why did you stop DIVX? :(

HEY I like the mpeg4 its the only useful format they have now ! (wmv and h264 and ipod ONLY play on computers or ipods) that makes them pretty useless to me since I dont use a computer to watch these and I dont own an ipod.

mpeg4 (sp) xvid - divx all fine with me as I can play all of these on my portable.

h264
Posted by: 7r3ni7y
Friday, February 03, 2006 8:28 AM

smaller, faster, better ... love it.

h264 is utterly the most useless video format currently avaialble second only to RM and WMV video

NOTHING can play h264 NOTHING except computers and 5g ipods. nothing.

as long as they keep the mp4 sp file format I am happy since I get to actually watch the show :-)

keep up the swesome work guys

FYI how about an mpeg1 format ? its SUPER SUPER fast to encode to (easily 3:1 maybe 5:1 on a faster machine) and it is super High Quality compared to what your showing now AND easily converts to any other format anyone could want effortlessly and it about the same size in disk usage as the divx file you were posting (600mb per hour)

MORE advantages ? I can burn it to VCD and put it on anything pretty much and its ultra easy to also put on DVD to put on tv etc.. if your willing to use 100mb per 10min file formats like the divs file just do mpeg1. - in mpeg1 I can put something like 21 episodes on a dual layer DVD and it will be playable in a DVD player !!

mpeg1 is more than good enough quality and VERY VERY low processor demanding (a 100mhz computer can play it) and TONS of free easy to use fast software it available for messing with it.

mpeg1 is the ultimate "consumer" friendly video format. its wide open widely compatible easily converted and pretty darned good quality. (better than any of the formats you have offered so far except maybe the h264 which I have not even tried to view)

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

http://www.provantage.com/ipod-tunestir-transmitter-receiver-remote-control~22098948.htm

http://www.provantage.com/scripts/search.dll
Go here and insert FM transmitter
You will see ALOT of units and prices.

What happened to the Divx version of Episode 31? It is five days past the posted time for the version. Might be nice to see it, or an updated ETA.

Another vote for divx, Patrick emailed me a response a while back about the Divx.
"We get less than 300 downloads per episode, give or take, in the DivX/XviD formats. Out of tens of thousands of downloads, Getting that format requries us to do an extra capture and encode on top of all the other enocding. So it's kind of a labor of love... and we weren't getting much love for it. Factor in a 12-18 hour work day on the days when we have to do all the encoding and uploading... and it got dropped. Oddly enought, Scott's encoding episodes 24 to the latest episode this week, so you'll be caught up for a while.

BTW, I thought the Archos could play MPEG4?
P"

Great show! I wish you were still on TechTV ScreenSavers. You guys are informative and knowledgeable. Any chance you will be on TV in the near future?

Thanks for keeping me informed.
Michael

498k all the way through! Only a few dropped frames. All I had to do was shutdown all LAN/Network machines. Reboot. Go straight to DL.TV and click the link to watch.

iGuitar. Hmmm, only $2195.00 + $200.00 for USB. Does it go up to eleven?
Oh well, I made do with the Vista slideshow until you get it to run...

anyone else having problems watching the flash?

Anyone else having problems with the flash playback?

sorry for the repost above.

Channel 1 will buffer indefinitely.
The other channels will play the advert and then buffer
indefinitely. Using Opera 8.51 - which seems to croak
on dl.tv on occasion.. Never seen this with dl.tv flash
before (same browser version).

sorry for the repost above.

Channel 1 will buffer indefinitely.
The other channels will play the advert and then buffer
indefinitely. Using Opera 8.51 - which seems to croak
on dl.tv on occasion.. Never seen this with dl.tv flash
before (same browser version).

When I DLed 33, it works fine in iTunes, but it pauses then continues without audio when I play on my ipod. Anybody else have this?

Ya same problem, it pauses then continues without audio, whats up with that?

NO WORKY

ipod link NO WORKY

is now working.

If you want to put it on your iPod, just download the MPEG4 one and add it to your iPod. It will work.

is now working.

HA, No problems for me suckers. XD

I'm a ass am I not?

btw, I had no problems before this was even mentioned!

...probably you have been working over the weekend :(

Its still freezing during the first 20 or so minutes on a 1.1 5G iPod. PLEASE Address!

Just watching ep 34 on my 60gb iPod... it freezes every couple of minutes.. (when watching through the Mac (iTunes) no problem.

Any ideas??

Whatever was changed in the encoding of the h.264 in this episode, I hope it isn't permanent. I was getting a headache watching the macroblocks go phump, phump, phump, phump, ...all the way through the show.

ook. I know this has been said before but I have not seen an answer.

WHAT IS WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT FORMATS!?

Most people who watch this show are more than capable of re-encoding a media file to any format they like. So what is the problem with just uploading the wmv format and making people just transcode themselvs? I download whatever hits the site fist, then re-encode for my PSP and for my wifes iPod. You can watch any of these formats with many different players on Windows, Linux, and yes of course Macintosh.

Just trying to sabe you guys some work. I know what goes into encoding all those different formats.

So my question: (please see all caps text above)

Great show!! I really miss the old days of ZDTV.

Is it just me or is the H.264 not deinterlaced?

your site still doesn't work. neither iTunes nor your site downloads work for dl.tv. all end up getting a timeout :(

Episode 33 and 34 freeze every couple of minutes on my 60 GIG iPod. First time I have seen this problem with DLTV iPod files.

Have the same issue as well. freese for about 5 sec then plays but with no audio. workaround is to rewind back about 5 sec and it plays ok until the next time it freezes. Ep 34 is worse than 33. 60GB ipod.

hey kids,
so we re-rendered the ipod and H.264. they are on the download page now.

OOPS!!!! all other formats will be available on Wednesday for Tuesday nights show. I will fix that. sorry about the confusion.

Thanks guys I enjoyed the show. Thanks Robert, I'll avoid phone over cable for a while. Vista: Mega setting options = pain in the @ss! It'd be nice to see how a Direct Draw game looks on Vista. (hint hint) I hear there will be no OpenGL? Wow Nathan's Lego stuff was super impressive!

Just wanted to say that it was a great show last night. Keep up the good work.

Sorry Robert but
Tivo - Galleon Developer Calls it Quits
http://www.digg.com/technology/Tivo_-_Galleon_Developer_Calls_it_Quits

Not sure if your mistaking me for someone else ? I have never heard anyone refer to me as dr video and would not be sure why they would but I DO know this.

Being picky is not relavent. Video conversion is Nasty for ONE SHOT after that its click and go.

There source files never changes. its from the same unit same enviroment same compression engine etc.. etc..

Once they find the "right" way to get the quality video its up to the CPU to crunch it. they save this as a profile and never ever have to deal with it again.

So this would appear to be a CPU time issue since it cant in my wildest imagination be a USER intensive process. SO what are they doing that takes so long ?? Even if I do a heavy duty compression its no worse than 1:1 time issue.

Thats why I want them to describe to us the entire process from step 1 to Posting on this site so we can figure out a better way to do it. We (well the users in general) want the formats I think we should help make there lives easier to get it.

How about they just post an mpeg2 and then we convert. well then you run into the problem with bit torent how do they track the downloads of the converted file ?

Since we cant take up the workload without messing up there stats I figure we can help them reduce there work load. I dont see why they can buy 5 computers one for each format and be done ALL conversions in under 1 hours from time of initial start. ($300 computers would do the job just fine I imagine thats well within there budget)

Source video on a remote network drive all 5 machines access the file and crunch it.

When its done someone ftp's the files.

What I need is a sample SOURCE file from DL.TV so I can play with conversion methods and find the ideal means with which to do it.

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

Loved the show! Great content!

I need by DLTV fix, i need my ep. 36

Seems like they were having server problems yesterday. "Patience" as Obi-wan would say.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!

Great to see the site finally back up, I been wondering what happened.

Hello, I bet your buzy rite now making the show, lol but can i just get the offical word on when the next video is going to be online, so i can stop clicking on refresh and move away from my computer thanks lol

Hey - don't you guys be dissing the gigling. If there was no giggling I wouldn't waste the time to watch these Teletubbies podcasts. Keep up the good work Laa-Laa and Tinky_Winky. How about bringing on Barney sometime?

I guess we'll get what they got when they get it. I'll just keep checking until something new turns up. As far as pissin' and moanin' about it: Don't look a free video in the pixels!

I want to think DL.TV for the free tec support

Love the show guys. Keep up the good work.

WOW! You guys need to get a life...it's not there, so what! Go outside out you lilly-white malnurished complainers.

I know Patrick and everyone else works damn hard on this, but I think maybe a quick message on the main page would've been nice, explaining where they're at with things and such.

SUCK-A-ME-FOOLS: DL.TV is more reliable than any girl (not that its possible) will ever be to you.

There is not way DL.TV is shutting down as if it were, why the hell would they post it in the comments section? It would be flat out on the home page.

They have problems just like we do. Their computers/servers crash just like ours. If anyone is to be scolded for this, its Microsoft for producing out of date, bugged, and unreliable OS.

FOR ALL WHO WHINE: You should try and run your own videocast/podcast and see if you can do better. Otherwise stop acting like a 2 year old.

need some help here please. the issue is that i may not be home to watch the live video feed but i dont have the patience to wait till tomorrow which i think will be the case since the show might be pretty long. i was hoping someone could point out a program that would allow me to save the live audio and video feed so i can watch it when i get home.

thanks for the help.

how is this posting if theres nothing working?

How do you tune in to watch live anyway??

Lex: If you miss the show you can usually download or watch the file streamed. Under "sections" on the right at the top of the page you'll see "Older Episodes".
Flappy: They put up a media player window on the front page and you just be there at the announced time. If the show starts on time or at all you'll see it. Lol, times seem to vary.
The server is obviously working at least as far as being able to post, so there must be something else... Who knows?

I hope you (Patrick) and the servers are feeling better. At least now i get to attempt to catch up. Yes I'm behind on my viewing, yes I am ashamed, and yes my Nerd Membership card has been suspended until I can get caught up.

Keep up the great work and it was so friggin cool to meet oyu in November 2005 at the Portable Media Expo. :)

I have a samsung lnr268wx LCD tv. If I buy an upconverting DVD player am I really going to be seeing a difference in picture quality? I own 360 DVD's So I think it is worth looking into getting the most out of them...Also if it is worth while, what do you guys think of the sony mega dvd changer thingy, or should I just wait until I can afford enough storage to put them all on hard drives?

Ps...you guys are great, true pioneers

When I d/l'd the mp3 files for ep 34 & 35 they were only 5k. Was it a d/l error or are the files pooched?

What happened to episode 36?

Glad the REAL pnorton is back an' ready to swing that sledge hammer!

If other DL.TV viewers are interested...
If you right click on the streaming view screen while end credits are running you can see performance statistics such as:
Max bit rate: 498.0
Bandwidth: 1632.6
Protocol: HTTP
[Video]
Frames skipped 55
Frame Rate 29 fps
[Packets]
Received: 30598
Recovered: 0
Lost: 0
It doesn't work on a video you've downloaded.
Even though I watched it live last night, I downloaded to view fullscreen. Download speed was 185 kbits/second. YAWN... Oh well, faster than dial up! Ya think Ma Bell is jerkin' me around?

Did you guys ever make an episode 36? The web site goes from episode 35 to episode 37. Also could you bring the divx/xvid version back.

Thanks. Matt

Great show but to much repetitive chit chat, try to make more in depth reviews.
And where is the XviD?

why lord, WHYYYYY??!!!!!!!11

Can't find epsiode 36. Was the video lost with the server problems?

I am getting my internet over the power lines in Cincinnati. The company is Current Link. They are also offering phone service. I was on the beta program for both. Good service. You should do a show on different forms of services.

I didn't realize they were doing that already. How does it compare to cable and/or DSL? Good topic.

Where is the DivX...?

Where is the Divx or Xvid download for Episode 37, Robert, Patric gang?
Keep up the good works. I watched every episode you encoded to D or X.

Regards,
Stanley of Syndey, Australia

I have a quest on video about Video..

Here is my video

http://podsea.com/dl.html

Thanks,

Jeff

I don't have fiber to the curb. Out in the sticks all I can get is dish that is some what better the dialup at 6 X the cost. Fortunately I work at the Univ. of Wash. and I can download your show at 1.0 MB/second. I usually watch you show on the buss ride to the sticks were fiber, cable, and dls are just a dream. I did have ISDN for a while but I could not afford the $100 - $200 per month bill.

-+mab

Looks like the h.264 is ready, just hasn't been added to the download page.

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode39/dl.tv.039.mov

So the show that aired Tue nite is lost in the either & what's being rendered is the next-day re-enactment? Maybe it should be referred to as ep39b.
btw - I got home from work & fired up your live feed just in time for the dead mic incident. You folks need a technical difficulties slide. It could be a great opportunity for some alarming geek humor, however if mimics a BSOD or mac bomb you're probably violating inadvertant trademarks. :)

Thanks for the link liam.

Those getting "slow" download speeds...

What seep are yougetting on the speedtest sites? (You can Google for them.)

I just discovered my inconsistant dowmload speeds were the result of the DSL servers at good old pac bell being set one speed and the line configured at another slower speed locally.

Might be worth checking if you still get slowed down pipe speeds.

.M4V plays fine. You just need a decent player. Nero Showtime, for instance, plays M4V and almost everything else right out of the gate.

for the WMV download link latah!! ;-)

How come it says episode 37 on your yet to be published links? did u copy/paste the html? You guys is slippin

Dvorak Rocks?
Are you kidding?

http://zdpub.vo.llnwd.net/o2/dltv/episode40/dl.tv.040.mov

i could never watch the show LIVE, im on a 6mbps cable line and i highly doubt is my isp's fault but i always have problems when watching the show live ... it keeps on buffering and it gets annoying. About downloading the show, why is it that during the day is so slow and at any other time i can actually get speeds of 700+ kbps ...

Looks like you want to do this via Windows.

GOOD LUCK!

All Dvorak does is whine about everything.... he's best left to writing articles and not letting anybody hear his whining voice on the Internet! His content is great... but his whining execution is a horrible turnoff! I know I don't have to ask if anybody else feels the same way...

Nah, their inability to not mention the iPod for the week they were supposed to just goes to show how they perfer them over the normal people that don't use them. They show us the nice democracy player and won't post the WMVs to download off the RSS feeds with it. Also there WMV link is broken at this time.

Great. I get to see Dvorak's loud ties.

Actually, it's about time Dvorak try to USE technology rather than just trash it.

Apple moving to Windows, what a cheap way to get attention focused back to Dvorak. He's the king of dropping a loaded rumor bomb and stepping back while people feverishly debate it.

We're all fools for listening to him, but I can't stop.

Where I live in Arkansas (where Bill Clinton, the education governor, best known for raising us from 49th to 47th during his time) we do not have any broadband or DSL access. I pay $60/month for Cingular Wireless and get about 10-22kps. It is much better than the old dial-up and I am thankful for it. It takes on average about 4 hours to download the program (if nothing goes wrong). As a former Screen Savers viewer I think its still worth it. I would like to see a (non-ipod) download available much quicker than the almost 24 hours it seems to currently take. Thanks to all the staff, I know your job is not easy but don't worry the vast majority of us appreciate your efforts. I am pleased to be a part of the very beginning of something that will someday be the best way to watch television.

Haha, great show, keep em coming.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Are you planning to up the H.264 version, or is heaven something of the past? BTW, the MPEG4 link leads to ... nothing.

you wouldn't see as much whining if they posted an update on why the files are not up. How long does that take?

I am in Loma Linda, Ca. The dl started at about 150 kb/s
then rapidly dopped to 95 kb/s in about 2 seconds. It shead another .1 kb/s per second and 40 mg in is holding
at 93 kb/s. Also I would concur with poster "Doug" about
IPTV.

i like heron and dvorak alot. they are both sincere and i like that. dvorak in sort a of a crochety brutally honest but still good-natured sort of way, and heron in sort of a "i'm just happy to be here hanging with my peeps talkin hdtv" sort of way. they are two of my favorites on twit, along with kevin rose.

I like heron, but sometimes he starts going off on some tangent and I just want someone to tell him to shut up. I can definitely see Dvorak as that someone.

Bitch bitch bitch.

It's one thing to say "hey, this link doesn't work."

But why do folks need to be so fucking snarky about it? Sorry about the language, but it makes me livid to read shit like that.

And there's no need to vote on which format to post first: just post the formats in order of popularity for the previous episode. If most people use codec X, it posts first. If hardly anyone uses codec Z, it goes last. This should be self-evident.

I like this show. Dvorak doesnt bother me as much. I think Rodger Chang should be on the show too. More IPTV shows the better. I'm sick of cable.

I just watched this, and I like it a lot. Let's get started.

The download speeds could be better, I understand the limitations on free services like this, but perhaps going for a torrent approach aswell?

Great show idea! Many people slam Dvorak because of his opinions and usually cranky tones. I think the title is a perfect way to advertise what to expect. Even though I don't always agree with John, it is fun to get his opinions and hear how he tries to backup his theories, etc.

Looking forward to actual episodes in the future!

Anyone getting a slow download speed for this episode? Only getting 50kbs on all formats (normally get over 200kbs)

I am in the UK be the way.

Christopher, I got about 400KB/sec for this episode 41. Could be your pipe to the UK.

There is a black boarder around the frame which makes the video smaller and never full screen. Also it's plays at 2fps. Also I notice is not as crisp as the other episodes.

Just downloaded 41 to my ipod - freezes just a little after Patrick starts talking. Anybody else getting this?

I just downloaded the H264 version of the show and the video is playing back very laggy, although the audio plays pretyy smoothly. Also, my computer is using alot more processor power to play back the file than it usually does.
Anyone else having these problems?

Yes, actually I missed the first fifteen minutes of the podcast. Also audio didn't sycn, except for the commercials;)

Thanks! Good work!

Gosh ... I tried to play the original 4 or 5 times ... (it was actually kind of fun to see iTunes melt down when you mentioned Intel).

On a serious note, you would think you guys were playing with bleeding edge tech.

Oh ... thats right ... you are.

Wow, 2.2 MB/sec download speed! And as a note to Robert Heron, it's all over the news here that one ISP is planing to launch a 1000 Megabit service next year, both up and down.

I generally watch it in the corner of my workstation while working, don't need a large one. Usually I can't wait though and DL the first.

ipod plays about 1 min then just freezes. I try to skip ahead but it just shows a black screen. itunes just crashes when it trys to play it

my speeds are steady at 215 KB/sec out of my max 300, with an ETA of 14 min.

ISP= SBC (now ATT?)
Location= Southern California

I see it just the opposite. I am sick of uber specialized programs. I LIKE the randomness of DL.TV I LIKE the "cast" interactions.

Its the almost the same with twit but twit is even better than dl.tv in this specific regard. its a rambled jumble of crap. but its crap from people I LIKE to hear talk about crap. (crap in a good way ie not focused except loosely on tech)

I LIKE hearing patrick robert etc.. just talk. I like hearing leo and dvorak just talk. I like hearing kevin etc.. talk.

these are people I enjoy hearing. it it got too focused some of that "personal" feel would go away and it might not be so much fun. its the reason I like the screensavers so much.

I hope I am not a minority in this regard as I really want dl.tv to succeed and prosper

Looking forward to 3 times a week :-) hint hint hey I can dream cant I :-)

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

Great job on the show Patrick and Robert.

I like the fact that you guys cover a lot of the type of stuff that was showed on the screensavers. They cover the a few of the latest tech stories at the beginning of the show. Then they show off the new products and do some intervies. Then at the end they answer viewer questions

Hey whenever I download the quicktime version, I just see the qt logo as the file downloads completely. If you use hinted streaming, we'll be able to watch as it downloads....

It would be worse if no one wanted to download the shows at all. :-)

FYI, basically all the video filesizes are wrong.

This show was great all around. Bates was a good interview (but do the kids know what Slashdot IS?), the sff was cool and watching Robert go at it with that mac-mini frontrow remote... hiiiilarious.

Anything news from CeBIT forthcoming?

There 2 diffrent formats. Not all devices play H.264 which is a superior format, but most do take MPEG4.

Your international download rates have been unusable for quite some time, I have not sen any of the last 10 odd episodes. I suppose someone has decided not to target the international audience.

Cool thanks a lot guys!!!! And oh yeah mine just peaked at 1200kb :)

yah so i got the vido for ipod version and it seems to be corrupted, i get about 1/4 done and i have problems with all these programs:

when i try to open it with VLC it closes back to the music playing window

when i use itunes to open it it crashes

when i use quick time to open it stops responding

please fix i am leaving on a plane later in the day and i can live without my fix :)

Could you please mention that in the university of Limerick we can download your episodes at only 2.5MBytes a second.
The slowness is probable due to distance or something as this connection is far faster.

P.S.
In Ireland students only need to dress and feed themselves out of their own funds as fees are paid for all EU students...we only need loans for partying!

Sorry forgot to include the screenshot:

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On Campus accomodation!

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I was downloading the DivX and check out my speed!

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f390/alpha_ran/DLTVDownloadSpeed.jpg

Its in KILOBYTES per second!
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Hahahaa!
Thats a cache speed burst and is due to the file starting to downlad ever before you have chosen a name from it.
If you let it download to 60MBytes or so and take another picture then I'll believer you....but for now....hahaha!

I use MetaProduct's Download Express. I just want to make sure with you guys that it's okay to use. I don't want to "clog up" your system if it's a bad way to download.

Thanks for the great show!!

I'm glad everyone is gettin great speed except me! I'm getting about 280 KB/s average. I think Comcast doesn't like me. Also, for the fact that Heron and I live in the Bay Area, I both think we have crap internet from Comcast. GO FIOS!

Only 310k download speeds in Vancouver, Wa. I think Comcast is choaking my like a chicken destined for the table!!

Screw Quicktime and use the free, open source program called VLC. http://www.videolan.org/
I've given up the whole codec hunt since Ive been using this. And you will be able to watch you .mov file full screen to boot!

Are you installing Itunes with Quicktime because you plan to use itunes?

The reason I ask is a big peeve with Quicktime is that (Ive stopped counting after 50+) many people I come across have those two itunes exe files running in the background of their boxes even though they dont have an mp3 player or buy online because thats 'how it installed'.

One look at the QT download page shows how they do mamaged to get people to DL the bundled version instead of the Quicktime alone: they put the iTunes/Quicktime bundled free version on the left side of the screen. On the right side they have the QT 7 Pro version that you have to pay.
And guess where they put this tiny little text that says QuickTime Standalone Installer?
Right under the Pro version that you have to pay!!
That is not an accident if you know the kind of work that goes into building something like their site.
Illegal? No.
Weasely? Yes.

Then again, we know the old story: if Real did something like this, we'd crucify them. Apple fanatics I am sure will either blame the stupid users, their parents, and everyone else in between...

You guys make me sick (commentors not you guys at dltv :-)

I am sitting here smiling at my 400-900kbps download capacity and then I see you GRUMBLING over 3-7 TIMES that speed ! Wow made me sick to see that. Drool Drool Drool.

I tell you with our greedy ISP's here the USA is going to be the laughing stock of the internet age pretty darned soon !! and I pay $65 a month for this privilege of slow speed (not from you guys from comcast)

Interlacing. huh I always wondered what those annoying lines where. they were not annoying enough to bother trying to figure them out though :-) hehehe

Yeah I just wait till wednesday and friday now too. thanks for getting it out to us guys really appreciate the work you put into it. CANT WAIT till you start raking in the cash so we can have even MORE episodes :-)

Oh and as for itunes and quicktime the solutions are really quite easy

itunes - dont use it dont install it. mp3's are better with no DRM and they still work on your precious ipods :-) and in the future when the ipod killer does come out (its inevitable they cant stay on top forever) all your music will migrate to the new device while your itunes music will be in the trashcan since you can ONLY use that stuff with ipods :-)

Quicktime. under no conditions install it. its buggy and crash prone. Use Quicktime Alternative. Never a single crash and works oh so well :-)

Chris Taylor
http://www.nerys.com/

I am glad tht I found you again Patrick. I have missed you and Leo since TechTV went crazy and the ScreenSavers was taken away. I look forward to watching your shows.

Wow, you guys banged these out pretty fast. Thanks, and keep up the great work.

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I'm somewhat limited budget wise so have to use the lower speed DSL...so files over 100MB start to be a bit impractical...thus, most of the time, I use the Flash vers...but sometimes I'd like to save it for later viewing...video quality for me doesn't matter as much as speed/time, and any video is better than just audio...

So is there some way as Mike asked to have a lower size file?

Hi

I really love the show it's great I have been going thru the archives (seadily but slowly so i can stretch them out :D)
the filesize is ok but IMHO something in the 100mb-150mb windows would be ideal.

i live in belgium and even thou speed is nt exactly an issue (4mbit ADSL) but we have a mothly transfer limit (typicaly about 10 gig a month) after wich you get capped at 64kbit (also sux for Bittorrent)

annyway for that reason i would greatly appreciate a smaller filesize with a slightly lower res

Can't wait for the space elevator segment. And I must of caught the cranky bug as well because if I hear the term "web two point Ohh" or any news about Google one more time, I'll strangle someone.

Great improvment over the pilot. The overall visual looked much better. I still think the logo sucks badly though. I think also it should be much longer, at least double of what is now.

So far it's one of my favorite shows, keep it up!

So far I've been able to download the largest DL.TV files within 20 minutes. I right click, save as, an' wander off until I think it's completed. Gives me enough time to go whiz, go to the fridge, make pop corn or whatever and return. Even if it only took a minute or so I'd still want to prepare for the viewing so no problem... However, I would still like to see Patrick or Robert take the hammer to a Bell phone. It might make us feel better if nothing else.¶=0)

I'm only getting 9.2 KB per second according to the Firefox download dialog. When I test my bandwidth speed via http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest ,
it shows that my bandwidth results are:
3.6 megabits per second

I have Comcast in Albuquerque, NM, zip 87120.
Perhaps they are throttling me or your site down?

It takes me 3hrs to convert these files to PSP format
on my 5 yr old computer.

Mike (King whiner),
You don't have to download the divx version.
Other versions are 200MB.
Download overnight is another option.

I can't believe it. I completely quit watching G4 a long time ago because it is just sooo bad. How did I not know about this DigitalLife until now? I had been watching ZDTV way back when it started off of my C-Band satellite and this is like having it back again....I'M AS GIDDY AS A SCHOOL GIRL! When is it all coming back togather with the whole gang on TV?

Thanks John D for this show and dl.tv
Informative and entertaining. John you could get crankier like in your articles in pcmag but still a great show.

Please supply some high def video, even just something that looks good on a lcd screen of normal size at full screen. Any one who downloads these things over night (everyone does sleep don't they?) and then watches them on a HTPC or just leans back in front of the computer would love to be able to see what you are doing in full screen - it feels like I just got w95 and windowed video. I will let you in on a secret - it is called bittorrent, I know you guys want to know how many people are watching your show but.... people are already seeding ep43 and 44 so either give us a high quality dl we can torrent to conserve your bandwidth, or be eaten by the tech you respect.
nb : you can track a torrent - I can think of at least 2 ways to record everytime someone dl's the show and wants to watch it : with out going down the soft DRM path and I am only a network engineer.

Tim - are you a Republican? I have never whined, but you do need to consider the rest of the world and that they might not be as privaledged as you are. Fortunately, most people here do realise others do not have such fast and unlimited access.

Anyway, whle I agree we should have the ability to download great high definition Divx files, it would be nice if we also have some that were smaller as well.

Divx gives the best quality per megabyte, so a 500Mb Divx for those in the new world, 100Mb for those of us in the real world?

Anyone know how I can get episode 43? I missed it and can't find it. If possible post link, thanks in advance.

You didn't say what format. Here's the link to the download page I got off the front page.

http://gearlog.com/blogs/digitallifetv/archive/2006/01/26/7839.aspx

What no show tonight? Usually Patrick has the DEETS up by now?

Did someone forget to de-interlace the feed for H264 - It's the first time I've noticed the feed being interlaced, and with Robert & Patricks active hand gestures it's very noticable.

Very slow download speeds - getting 22KB/sec. Same thing happened with the last show which I waited until Saturday to download - took four hours. As a comparison, just went to Twit's site and downloaded 26.8 MB episode in 35 seconds.

I wasn't getting too bad of speeds on the download, I don't know it exactly, but I am half way through the dl on itunes and I started about a minute to a minute and a half ago. I have to admit it's getting better.

I'm disappointed I couldn't watch the live episode on my linux machine a few episodes back that is one of the reasons I formated back to Windows XP.

Downloading seems fine to me - 2.4MB/s - although I have seen faster.
(University pipe)

Weird, I can't download any of the clips.. in fact i cannot even reach the download server. same since yesterday.
zdpub.vo.llnwd.net wont resolve.. does anyone have the IP?

Located in Sweden, ISP BBB.

That was quick! Now it works, just seconds after i found this page to reslove the IP http://network-tools.com/

2200kb/s nice but i'm on 100/100mbit =)

Mike - Standard DSL should download 200mb in 12-24 minutes. For 500mb the download should be 30-60 minutes. What is the problem? You are just impatient as well as a whiner! DLTV does offer multiple files 200mb files.

The requested URL /dltv/episode46/dl.tv.046.mov was not found on this server.

:)

Great show but I'd still like you to touch on BOINC.
Keep up the good work

786+ KB/sec on Comcast... I know and understand why, not your favorite.

Running around and a danger to himself - sounds like realistic AI to me

//im so sorry

Thanks for the DviX files. Have DVD player that plays them. Just drag and burn and watch on the TV.

Wow. I'm getting 72.5 kB/sec on Comcast. I'm ready for FiOS in the Bay Area, how about you guys?

Quicktime H.264 looks great if your computer has the power to decode it. High quality video, at full screen there is only minor compression blocking in the solid areas. (I have also tried mpeg4 and video iPod which are not as good.)

I never miss a show, you fill my brain with nice data. But you guys still have a long way to go. The set is crappy, the quality of the DIVX;) encoding is hit or miss (aka crappy) The graphics & camera work is well crappy. But yeah it's still early & keep up the good work.

Dvix is looking better than H.264 now. All thats needed now is Deinterlaceing. For now I guess i'll just download both until I decide what to stick with.

great show.

Hey guys,
Thanks for the b/w fix,
I'm getting 250kb/sec here in singapore compared to the previous 20-30kb/sec. Keep up the great work.
=)
Regards

Hello! I Can't download any file :( Is the server down?

I am downloading right at 700kb/s on a cable line in KY. Can't wait to watch the show in h.264 on the best OS....X.

Keep up the fantastic work Pat, Rob, Keith, everybody. Hope to see you on TV sometime again.......

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157mb wmv in under 2mins @ 1200kb/sec

Very fast download. Went at 2048kb/s (2mb/s) for a little bit then slowed to 1.5mb/s. Great show guys.

I downloaded DL.TV in school, and i was doing 4000 kB/ps, thats KiloBYTES per second. I was floored. it took less then a minute.

I have been very happy with the past two episodes. Sorry, forum, for blasting such vitriol in your general direction a couple days ago.

Keep it up guys and thanks!

Rescindingly,...

I use to get 300 to 400kb/sec now its down to 15kb/sec. Been like this for 3 weeks. Does this mean people in Australia will give up watching the show?

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Does anybody know how to watch the streaming version of the show in fullscreen mode? The flashplayer which they use doesn't seem to have a function for it (or I can't find it)

Filip: usually an SWF file can be gotten from your brower cache, saved to a folder like MyDocs and drag 'n' dropped onto an IE window. It will play full screen if you hit F11. However, DL.TV doesn't seem to do the standard SWF because I couldn't get this to work last night when I tried.

As far as the show streaming live via WMP you can right click on the window and choose, Zoom > fullscreen.

I have used a HDD visulation tool for many years called SequoiaView. It goes right down to each individual file and you can drop down to sub folders to examine even more closly.

Great job yet again guys! Getting hammered on the download though. Lots of anxious people.

Be bold, celebrate episode 50 in style...

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Give your download server provider a hug for me, I always max out my connection when grabbing the latest episode.

Because I switch between FC5 and XP, I use google reader. It's great for when I'm at work or school as well as on my laptop. As far as feed either way is fine with me. The hiccup allowed me to find the HD epp. If i have to mark all the epps as read if/when this happens again so be it. It only takes a minute or two.

I quit watching TechTV soon after they became G4TechTV, because they got rid of everyone who knew tech, and replaced them all with skinny young people with messy hair.

"Thank you. Ya'll rock."

2 things:

First, It is "Y'all" not "Ya'll"

Second, since you are speaking to a group of us the correct term would be "All Y'all", since it is plural.

On a serious note, I didn't notive since I just download the episodes manually. Keep 'em coming.

You kids with your new-fangled toys these days.
/grandpa voice

Click here to go to the download page!
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What's on the show?...

that voodoo pc is FAR from the fastest money can buy as was said.

this is: http://www.dell.com/html/us/products/renegade/renegade.html

it's the fastest PC you can buy right now.

Thanks Patrick!!!
Most of us out here really appreciate the amount of work you do to produce the show and all the pain you go thru to get it to the downloads.

I was starting to sacrifice the small animals in an attempt to appease the download Gods but you saved their lives. Maybe I will box them up and send them to Robert.

I know this sounds like a stupid question but could you put up a checksum for the file? I have had a few problems with corrupted downloads from dl.tv - a checksum would figure out where the problem is occuring.

Cheers!

I train a lot of people to present on TV and as you've both relaxed into the show I've enjoyed watching you more and more. Pacy fun anarchic. Great. It really is so refreshing, compared to most TV presenting, which is dull dreary and samey.

As the show has progressed and I've got to know you better, it's your opinions I like hearing, rather than what a broadcaster would normally consider "appropriate". Well done.
Best Wishes,
Peter

is always a great guest and hopefully is a regular for this show. GO EFF!

Thanks for another fine, blended edition! I appreciate all the EFF is doing to protect our digital rights and I support them.

This show airs in the perfect time slot for me.

For all Patrick and the gang do to keep bringing this show to all of us, THANKS!

Actually you computer speed does have some impact on your download speed. Not in a major way but its there.

Who cares Eric, I think you need to get a job since you have nothing better to do than explain bandwidth on the comment section of dl.tv episode 53(WOW has it been that long?) At least Suzie has a job :P

Roger what do you think of the Samsung 23" or 26" Widescreen LCD HDTV either one the ones with it buit in or the one without.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7742945&type=product&productCategoryId=cat15107&id=1140393550833

A very good unit My out the door with the 3 Yr "You sneezed and it broke" warranty was $2100. (gotta love tax returns.)

Till anon,
Michael

I see you managed to get the download speed back up to 500 Kbps. That's great.

I see you managed to get the download speed back up to 750+ Kbps. That's great. i get a constant 750kbps.

Episode 53 went live at&nbsp; 4PM Pacific, 7PM Eastern, 23:00 UTC!
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Well I get 350 kBps .. Yes, that is B as in Bytes.

If ion fact you are only 351 kbps, "b" as in bits, then you are very S L O W!

You need to watch you "Bs" and "bs" when you start making remarks about download speeds. ;-)

It´s 23.45 here CET and I get average 6100 kbps
on my 750 kbps/5-6 Mbps ADSL. Max speed that is :)
Way to go! Have to add that it´s like this most of the time.

I'm getting 766.6 KB/s which is what I normally get for DL.TV. It 9:11pm (21:11) Eastern on 4/21/06 and I'm on Comcast.I get that speed with Windows or Linux,but I don't think that matters much.

test

treyterye

I'm getting 600KBps+; Optonline, Suffolk County Long Island (NY). Very happy with these speeds.

Thanks a lot guys!

Love the show guys, I'm a avid view and love the show, I not sure what a download speed should be, but getting around 170kbs to 260kbs. I also download the wmv and love it that way. i don't see any diffrence with the other formats, no not sure what everyone else is talking about. But My laptop has no problem seeing it, it a new Dell E1705 and love it with the Duo Core haven't even had it lag down yet.

From Underwood, Iowa
Please let me know how my download speed is, it a 1.5mbs line also just to let u know.

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Any chance you guys have gotten ahold of the Toshiba HD DVD player yet? If possible could you guys see if there is any noticable PQ difference between it outputting 1080i & 720p on a true 1080p monitor? I know some monitors out there are still not able to handle true 1080p@60 but my cheopo sub $2k 37" Sceptre LCD can handle a 1080p input and I'm thinking about getting this unit.

Thanks in advance

Hey guys.

just wanna let you know the H.264 feed (ep 55) is out of synch... you may have to re-encode.

Still watched it any; thanks for the great shows.

y/f

Same subject I keep posting about: Yes DL.TV has fast connection speeds (5 MB/s), but your files are getting bigger and bigger (200MB->250MB->300MB->350MB) without getting better video/audio quality. What happened? Higher bit rates?

Franky at the moment I don't care about HD anything or the, yes, asinine format war. I've got other things to do with several thousand dollars. Oh yeah, the prices will drop over the next year or so. Gee, watch me holding my breath.

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I am getting tired reading about this internal errors. Would it be impossible just to have a Website where I could see "Episode 'xyz'/format/download" instead of heaving to go through pages of less interesting things? ie. where are the "old episodes" that didn-t make it to the "older Episodes" link?

Why do I have to "know" via RSS that the latest episode streamed yesterday but the downloads will be avaliable two days later - instead of giving me the dl-info at the time, when it-s actually ready???

Hey guys.the show was worth waiting for.I was waiting last night for the live show, and Pat? Hats off to you for getting this on. I know, as well as many who watch it here, that it is hard work, and we appriciate everything you guys do.

Does anyone know the status of the downloads for episode 57?

The downloads seem real slow now. Hitting the side of my monitor is not even helping. It is making the gerbils mad so I have to stop.

Hey!! He never said WHICH Friday so he has a loophole!

Did the aspect ratio for the H.264 format change? Maybe because of the "server suicide" problem? Episode 56 picture is wider and squashed in the vertical.

Thanks, love the show.

Bill M.

The downloads have been delayed until Robert has a chance to do the Spanish translation version. Otherwise there will be a boycott of the DL TV shows since we can't understand it in English.

I think Patrick is too much of a Davinci Code fan so he buried the download story!!!

They also forgot to feed the download juicer as it was slooooooooowwww again...

I wanna blame Robert for this somehow - maybe because he looked so obnoxious on the Cranky Geek show.

I would say give Drupal a try, learning curve isn't that great and you can customize to you hearts desire with a litle PHP code.

Oh, That download *sounds of hysterical or maniacal laughter follow*

Guys, Friday night is Saturday Morning for me and its now Monday night so where are the files????

Dude, Where's the OGG? Screw M$!

Why is the H.264 version smaller than the video ipod version? Aren't they both using H.264 for the video? How is it possible that a lower res version is bigger in file size?

H.264 requires more cpu cycles which your ipod does not have. H.264 .mov encoding is way more complex, providing a smaller file size and better picture.

Why can't I download any of the episodes with DTA (Download them All, Firefox plugin)

@ Filip
Have you tried right clicking the link and selecting "Start Link with dTaOneClick".

Worked for me.

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WOW, the download is ready early 2 times in a row, great!!!! Maybe they are using the samething as crankygeeks. Crankygeeks download is always ready early which was making me wonder why one show was ready quicker than the other.... looks like the FIXED THE PROBLEM, YAY!!!!!

Those Quad G5 must be damn fast cause these encoding take like 5 hours to complete.

Also about that:
"The next episode of DL.TV streams live Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 at 4pm PDT, 7pm EDT and 23:00 GMT/UTC, and will be available for download Friday, May 5th."

I believe Patrick means the next episode (59) will air on Tuesday and the current episode (58) will be avaible to download today (05.05.06)

Hey just wanted to say that my Dowload speed of the H.264 was 2.2MB/s, downloaded in under 1min 20 sec.

So... when should we expect HD versions of DL.TV? I mean if you start using Bittorrent for the HD downloads, I wouldn't mind downloading 2GB of HD quality DL.TV. Are we going have to wait like we are waiting for Windows Vista?

We're redecorating the studio, so today's show is short 'n sweet!

Click here to go to the download...

Well the DivX is no longer humongous at 350Mb. Did you guys improve encoding methods without sacrificing imaging quality?

Also looking foward to another 60 episodes. (Maybe in HD too?)

350MB was a bit much. I know it was the best quality version they offer, but I'm not sure everyone is looking for broadcast quality. It would seem they have lowered the bitrate to a more reasonable level. It may have also been shorter than a typical 350MB show. I'm also very pleased to see (or not see) aliasing issues seem to have vanished. No more mixing fields from two different frames WOO HOO!. Looks very nice guys, keep up the good work.

It seems that every time I try to download dl.tv using iTunes, the video always gets gut off. usually around the halfway point. I get an application error and it shuts down the whole iTunes program, then I replay the video and it happens again in the same location. Like I said, it pretty much happens on every episode. Do you know why this happens?

Keep up the good work,

PHIL

H264 Audio cuts out at 14:06.

AS KUNAL SAID THE AUDIO CUTS OUT ON THE H264 FILE, YOU SHOULD REMOVE IT AND REDO IT BEFORE MORE PEOPLE WASTE THEIR TIME DOWNLOADING IT........NOT THAT I AM UPSET OR ANYTHING

Like others that have already posted, I too lose audio at 14:06. There is one second of audio at 17:58 then nothing else that I can find.

I have played back the file using Quicktime Alternative player and VideoLan Client media player (v0.8.4a).

The H264 file loses audio completely at 14:06. Are all the other files OK?

Please post here when the file is replaced... :-(

I had the same problem as Kunal did.

Great Caesar's Ghost, I may or may not live under juristiction of the DMCA, but it pains me to see Patrick and Heron shy away from these questions. What teh hell is this world coming to??? anyway, it sounds like you need "videohelp" of some sort. I might have read about it in a comic book called "doom9" or something.

There seem 2 b a prob w/ d iPod version of dl.tv episode 61 frm iTunes. Stops after 1-2 minutes of play on the iPod, shuts iTunes down on my PC.

Just tried to download the show, and it downloaded hte file, but it was not the 206mb said, only 4k.

the links aren't hot yet, that's all

The files are missing...
When is it going to be released...
ARGH!!!

well, since it's like 0630 where they are, it looks like their script-mes wasn't pronounced properly 80)

Glad to see that its up early today, who needs post that has bad links to the episodes, Please fix, I want to hear about that flamethrower, with Robert...

It puts the video's on the server !

(and yes, for me the last two Divx vid's were out of sync about half way through)

It seems all links to the files are screwed. Will someone at DL.TV read the comments and let your viewers know what is going on.

thx.

No Greg not meditation but information. A small comment on this site by a member of the DL team would go a long way to belay all the ... what was it call DL TV download rage.

It stops downloading half way through. Do you know of a good resume extension for Firefox? Im on a Mac - I HATE DAP - yuck.

Actually, I usually DON'T browse this board 'cause most of the posters are a-holes with very LITTLE patience...

and you wanna subject an employee to that!?!

Always the cry-babies "screaming" Oh, it's 2 seconds late, kill someone!

Or, as in the case of today, it's not live UNTIL the file finish's rendering and get posted to the server and the php/etc. updated...
can these morons wait a few hours and try again?..
obviously NOT!

For you idiots I'm talkin' about, don't bother posting a reply.
I won't be looking again, 'cause I GOT my file

Why does my flash player sputter to a halt while im watching digital life television?
I reinstalled the latest flash player and installed a beta of the current internet explorer and i still get the same result.

Time for another perky edition of DL.TV.&nbsp; Hosted by Patrick Norton and Robert Heron

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A Finely Pulsed Almost All Viewer Questions Edition o' DL.TV.

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What's on the show? Here's parts of it:

Boot Camp:...

Episode 53 went live at&nbsp; 4PM Pacific, 7PM Eastern, 23:00 UTC!
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Another DLTV...

Hi,
My flash player isn't loading. I have Windows XP Pro. with Mozilla 1.5, I have AdBlock (and other adblocker). I just reinstalled Flash 8 and it still won't install, what am I doing wrong here?

getting 3696KB/s at UCD :)

Hey guys ,thanks a lot your show ROCKS, i was for years a big fan of the screensavers and watched in over here in my adopted land Holland ( puff,Puff)
I would love to see a european version of your Show ( say hosted by ME.
Love it , please keep dishing up these lovely helpings of geek lovelyness..

Keep it Kummin

There is something wrong with the H.264. The sound is there but