Can you post a link to where I can buy the WiFi card and Antenna you used on Episode 2?

Thanks.

the least they could do is "white balance" the freakin cameras. damn that looks bad. nice try, but no.

get rid of the commecials, stop showing crap we don't have enough money to buy, and get rid of jim

Episode 2 was great!! There were so many classic Patrick moments in the episode I can't hardly stand it. The only thing the show is missing is a touch of Fooo...Where is the Foo man? I have an idea, he can come on the show to read the web URL and you can make fun of him. Or you could have a "Foo Minute" before the break to anwer FooTastic questions..

Great to see you back in action Patrick..

You MUST wear the man skirt next episode...

Come on guys, studio TV 101 if you're doing a studio shoot with multiple cameras you got to match the cameras up. At the very least you can white balance them all the same way if you don't have the right chip chart thing. The color shift between the 3 cameras was driving nuts. I love my IPTV but until someone improves the production value the masses will not watch.

hq xvid plz, if it's not too much to ask :)

I am a new listener, and even with the sound volumes turned all the way up, I can barely hear you talking. Just to be sure it wasn't my player (media player classic) I checked in audacity, and the wave form looks like an almost flat line.

Pat...Robert I have been a fan of your for a long time. I just got done watching the video version of TWIT...now downloading this show...I most definately be a watcher. Keep up the great work. I have missed you all!

Jo An
SE Michigan

HI I've got 3 computers running here. Your link works fine on the XP machine running Windows Media Player 10. On my 2000 machines it does not work, they are running WMP 9. Is this normal?

Great show! I hope to see you guys back on the air soon with a company that cares for you guys and us the consumer's.
Keep up the great work

Nice , tv's setup to stream, finally get to catch a live show :)
Keep up the awesome work, thanks!

Can't seem to connect to the server. It's almost 6 (PST)...
:(

how about posting the GMT/UTC start time aswell, I dont know dick about US timezones

I just had to post back right away to make fun of myself for putting Mr. for a title. I thought the form was asking for my title!!!!!

You finally fixed it! Way to go guys!

yes... we like our open-source mpeg4. xvid is pretty nice and the encoder is fast. it doesn't matter so much at the client end, but a lot of people prefer it for encoding.

Need an RSS Torrent feed--like what systm does. Does one exist? Where's the link?
Thanks!

what days and times are you live would love to catch it live mail or something please thanks

Where is the podcast feed? I don't want to have to manually download every episode.

Hey what happened? it started buffering and now its repeating a few seconds of the show everytime i open the stream.

haha it keeps crashing on them.

My networked printer went a little crazy right when the show died the 2nd time. i thought it was my network then i checkec here lol. it is a great show i hope it is back soon

I'm watching on x86_64 fedora core 4

Just download mplayer.i386 and get the win32 codecs pack

I think you guys need a seperate box that puts the "Technical difficulties" screen up until you get it working again @_@ just press a button and instant "Technical Difficulties" message @_@

where's the downloadable file? normally, how long does it take to get up? i'd think it takes at least a day, but the main screen turn on said "all your base are belong to us." j/king.

what the main screen said was that they were done recording, and it'd be up in "just a few minutes," or something like that. i knew it couldn't be true.

so, normally, how long?

I downloaded the windows versions and it won't render. I have media classic, klite codecs and media player 9 installed. Any ideas to get this to run?

Mike, try upgrading to media player 10. I like it better than 9 and it may help.

yay looking forward to this show.
go robert h!

Just tune in... it's all set up now and ready to go.

Video and sound looks good here no choppyness or lag. and im on wireless.

What happened to all the different formats for downloading? WMP sucks crap.

It looks like the 20MB+ audio track is now included in the Xvid download. If you all ever have problems again, try using Gspot. It will save you alot of time trouble shooting (so you won't prematurely start re-installing codecs or running numerous video clients to see if it works).

when are you going to start taking live calls?

It probably doesn't make difference for the WiMP stream, but when viewing it in H.264, it's quite obvious that recording is done in an interlaced format. Is there any way you guys can get rid of the interlacing? Pat and Rob both like to gesture with their hands while they're talking, and that's great, but the interlacing makes it look really ugly and distracting.

Other than that, great show. Keep up the good work.

Excellent show. Im really not a fan of HDTV (still use a small black and white above my computer) but Heron has grown on me. Always interesting and great delivery.

Good think Louerbeck is hoped up on "reds, vitamin C and cocaine", taht sure was a lot of info in a such a short segment. And just like when Bill Walton is doing the NBA, you know Jim is gonna do a Dead reference durign the show ;-)

zeke

I donwloaded my DLTV from Itunes - I noticed that the MPEG-4 bit rate was dropped from 192kpbs in episode 8 to 128Kbps now in episode 10.

If anybody is listening to these comments - please go back to the hi-res format @ 192Kbps.

Thanks,
Bob

yeah its not working

Refreshed and it works now less than 30 seconds 10 by posted http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio

When can I download?!?!?

Just a reminder. :)

Another great show guys. I appreciate the obvious hard work you guys put into the shows.

Will you still be offering the XviD version? This open source codec is used by a few players across many platforms. I like to take your shows with my on my Palm and watch with TCPMP.

MPEG4 would also work if it were encoded with anything other than AAC audio.

Not complaining though - I know how much time it takes to encode these things.

Steve

I agree with eflightcentral, it would be nice to have a Xvid or mpeg4 version because a lot more devices support this: I could put it on my zodiac with TCMP and if I archive them on a CDR I can watch in in my DVD player on the TV (I live in europe where most dvd players support Divx & Xvid).

I would love to see an Xvid version as well. I've been watching them on my standalone player.

Well thanks for makeing an IPOD video feed for itunes, but some of us don't have ipods but we would still like to have xml feeds for other formats.

I for one would like a feed for the windows format. Right now I download the windows version manually each time, and then copy it over to my snapstream TV PVR software and watch you guys on my TV. the software can't play the h.264 video, it only knows mp2, avi, and wmv.

It would be nice if I could set up ipodder to automatically download the windows video (from a feed) and put it directly in my pvr's video folder and that way I would never miss an episode or have to manually download it again.

Please????

Thanks for the XviD format! Much appreciated. Now I can take the latest show on the road with me!!

For those wanting a WMV version - windows media player can handle the XviD format - the codec is free and the files are typically smaller for similar quality.

It really sucks that there are so many formats out now....

Keep up the great work guys!

I agree with the previous post. I would like to have an XML feed to work with Windows Mobile Media Player. I have a PPC6700 from Sprint. Super device. You guys should check it out.

Yay! A new episode! Can't wait! :-)

Shweet... I really hope the bandwidth will accomodate all the live viewers...

Patrick and Crew,
I caught the last 5 minutes of the stream and there were no problems at all. I have a cable connection. The time difference here in Hawaii kills the live show for me so i will catch the rest on the download.

Aloha
Eric

Where is episode 13!? It's 6pm and nobody's here...

I'm I losing it or what !?!

ahhh, no digitallifetv = ++ungood

Looking forward to a great show! :-)

You need a pro audio mix person to tell you guys when you make mistakes like putting the LAV mic up under Patrick's Chin on his mock turtle collar. His audio was muffled and quite difficult to understand. You also want to roll off the low end so the audio so it becomes more intelligible. Remember you are providing an information program not a Music or Game experience. The audio should be equalized for maximum intelligibility not maximum frequency response. The Lav Mics work best Mid Chest and pointed up at the mouth. Not Under the chin and pointing down...
---C Goodin
Goodsound

I'm still waiting for the XviD download, which was listed to be available on Wednesday and Now it is Thursday 3:30 pm ET and still not listed.

I was watching and it sounded exciting, then Patrick got distracted by someone off screen, said "There goes my interview for the day" very quietly, then the show stopped. It just started over, but I'm curious what happened.

LOL

...of suggestioning a graphics card that won't work on a system that can't use it?

On of the emails was about a guy that had a MX440 and couldn't play F.E.A.R. so Pat started suggestiong other cards. One of the suggested cards was the GeForce 6800GS. The problem with that is that the only 6800GS's I've found are all PCI-Express. Now unless some crazed graphics maker made a GeForce MX440 as not only AGP but for some strange reason PCI-Express, suggestioning a PCI-Express card to someone that obviously has a AGP doesn't do much good.

I've got a AGP and cannot afford to get a new motherboard and CPU just yet, but I would like to get a 6800 for my current system. However if I can get a 6800GS AGP for a bit more I would love that. It's too bad it's not going to happen, because I just can't see anyone making and new AGP cards any more.

Well, the xbox has live.. Its a big part as I am mostly an online gamer. Sony will probally try to copy-cat Xbox Live in a way for the ps3, but online gaming without a friends list and voice messages is crap. I'm getting an xbox360. (as soon as my local best buy gets more stock)

Windows Media Sucks, please stream in something that is locked into just a Windows PC! Windows Media only works correctly on Windows PCs, typical Microsoft monopoly behavior, QuickTime works great on Macs and PCs. Seems that QuickTime would be the better choice.

How about having a guest shot of some of them?

http://www.playboy.com/features/features/techtv/02.html

what is wrong with Windows Media file ? quality is TERRIBLE

and why exactly do you guys wanna see Patrick & Robert in High-Def Crystal clarity? xvid for the win! But IF you're gonna set deadlines, it'd be nice to keep them. I think Wednesday is over in every time zone now.

I'm in the same can with Peter. I'm waiting for the XviD version to be able to play it on my iPaq via TCMP...

There seemed to be a ton of raving about the Xbox 360 but not a single mention of the large amount of people who's Xbox 360s are crashing frequently?

How come it is taking this long for the older episode to get coded? I don't want to spoil watching DL.TV on my pc, since I've been watching them only on my X5

Call me old fashioned but I like to watch my TV shows on TV. With XVID I can transfer the DLTV files to a 1 GB compact flash card, which in turn fits into my LG DVD player (with DivX, XVid). I can watch the entire show on my TV on this player reading from flash memory, very cool I think!

Can i do that with H264? Not yet.
Can i do that with WMV? No.
Can i do that with MP4? Not this MP4.
you get the idea.

Thanks again for the XVid.
(If only such shows as DiggNation and TWIT were available in this format.)

Another awsome show whoo hooo! dl.tv rocks!

your fan mark.

No, back when (not so long ago in the scheme of things) it was ZDNetTV and it was good. Very good. Excellent, actually. The peak of tech related broadcasting. Before that, there was the 1-hour C|Net TV but that was a pale forshadowing of the blossoming forthcoming. (Ugh, bad english.)

But Mr. Allen tried to change things which hurt some, then sold things, which really blew the whole shlemeil down a hole.

Market share for the target audience went from good and growning to bad and failing. I mean, who really cares about those teenie-boppers that G4 targets anyway?

If you want good tech-related info and you want to reach a broader audience than what they reach now, you still have to go to TV. But as it becomes easier to reach those curious enough to get to places like this, especially when the default home tv/entertainment system has a direct link to the internet, then we'll again reach the potential that ZDNetTV had and by then the initial audience will be much bigger than it was back then too, even including non-target audiences and thus expanding the potential target audience.

I wonder whats gonna be on today's show, since they didn't posted any show notes.

acctualy it stalled at 11 seconds.. Oh it's back.. at 10 seconds! yay

yay good show.. seems a but short, :/

>>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 !
Well, a small percentage you will, lol... right now 700MB is too big a download for us to cover. Maybe in the future...

Just curious if it starts at 'normal' time of 6pm pacific or will it be another time (earlier or later) like this one?

I would love to see the show live!

Thanks in advance.

Okay, it is now December 6th and there is still no Xvid copy of the show that aired on December 1st?!?
Are you guys still having trouble with Xvid or are you going to drop it from the available download list?

I hope not considering that it is the only version of the feed that easily transcodes to 320x240(15fps,DiVX) using the free version of PocketDiVx Encoder to make the file a more suitable size for fitting on my Pocket PC.

Its said "available today" for ages now, i have downloaded 19 and cant watch it till i get 18!!!

Patrick & Robert, the format for the show is perfect. It's the perfect, laid back atmosphere we need to absorb the latest digital lifestyle news.

One question - do you (y'all) prefer the Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) over Windows XP as far as reliability?

Thanks your relaxed, no nonsense delivery of the latest.

Y'all are the Bob and Tom of the digital world!

??? no wmv for me! any other format will do... but who dropped the ball?

Waiting for the H.264 version.
Thanks in advance. Really enjoy your shows.

Did I mention Windows Media sucks proprietary Microsoft monopoly ass? Well even if I did, it never is more true!

Long live all the lemmings who help maintain Microsoft's monopoly on mediocre property technology.

Now c'mon guys, seriously!! We're two episodes past and the XviD for this one still hasn't been released!

I can't watch any of the other formats so c'mon! Pleeeeze!!!

WOW, it's 7:30 pm MST. I don't see the show. Am I having a noob moment or is there NO way to watch the show 6 shows after it aired???

COME GUYS! Maybe you need Kevin's help encoding video quicker... wow..

ready to watch...but where is it?

Where is it :{

It downloads like 2 Megs and stops!

Never mind seems to work in IE.

I know that you guys have been having problems with Xvid encoding. I'm just hopeing this means you aren't going to drop it because this is the only format that will play on my stand alone dvd player. I'm not much for watching the show on the computer.

Keep up all the good work!

If I were using the equipment I have at work (a Digital Rapids with a SD/HD capture card, Dual Xeon CPUs, a gig of ram and a terabyte array) I might be able to do a real time capture and encoding of a 480x360 wmv9 file. In other words, say a 40 minute show would take about 40 minutes plus change.

If I have to render the same show from an .avi file, it could take a hour or 2 on the Digital Rapids box. The longer the show and higher the resolution, the longer the wait. If I were use one of the single P4 3 ghz systems we have here, with Cleaner 5. to render a wmv file from an avi file may take few hours.

FYI, the Digital Rapids system costs over $20,000 with the options currently in it. The P4 box on the other hand cost maybe a tad over $600. I have 1 Digital Rapids system, 2-P4 system and a AMD Opertron box.

Even with the fastest cpus commercially available, the encode process is still not real time. Imagine how long it takes to do the high res H.264 Quicktime. It's click the save button, take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning.

TV on the Internet is still an adventure. The quality is heck of a lot better than the first webcam videos from the Screensavers days. I'll get better sooner than later.

Is anyone at DLTV even at work??? If so, can one of you so kindly tell us if the file will be up today or not???

Sorry, I don't mean to whine, but it would be nice to know...

Ok, yeah this is really starting to sound whiny, I mean it may be polite whiny, (which surprises me when compared to most sites) but I am a patient man, I figure something must of happened. (encoder crash, a windblows bug, the fact that they still don't use macs for this) but have patience people. I agree with the fact that it is odd that it still hasn't come out yet, but I'm certain that they are still on it at this very moment and won't be much longer before it is released.

so no xvid version anymore.. great..

this is rediculous, not the encoding, but you guys. If you are seriously so addicted to DL.TV that you are pissed at just a bit slow encoding, GET HELP.

It doesn't NEED to be any specific format to watch, if you want H.264, get it later and watch another format currently. Just get over it and watch it.

Do they really need to update their page every few hours? No, not at all. It'll be done when it's done, telling them to update their site every 2 seconds is only going to slow the process.

And so, in conclusion, STOP WHINING AND JUST WATCH IT. They don't have underpants gnomes come in and encode it for them (although that is a good idea), it's all them, and with everyone wanting smaller size and higher res, it takes some experimenting to get it good... and time is part of experimenting... so basically, b1tch at people who want different formats, that's what is truly slowing this down

Why not just drop H.264. that way we would have nothing to complain about and we wouldn't be setting oursevles up for a let down every week.

Dr. PAUL: Didn't you notice the WMV file for episode 24 has a bad case of progressive audio sync-itis near the end? It needs to be complete re-encoded, however likely that is to happen.

You guys seriously rock. But I take it no Macworld live action?

Like episode 24, episode 25 WMV file also has the audio progresively going out of sync with the video as it gets further along.

Does anyone not notices this? Are you paying close enough attention. :)

Other WMV files from other sources, including earlier DL.TV WMV episodes play without the audio getting out of sync, why all of a sudden?

Look at Subscribe to Videocast in the Sections column. Click on WMV!
P

a jackhammer ought to do it =P

yeah, cause that was intelligent

I play the Dl.tv WMV files flawlessly in Linux. You just need the Win32 codecs. This post on the ubuntu forums should help you: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75278 even if you don't use ubuntu.

I have been using Xine without any problems. There are some Windows libraries (.dll files) that need to be added bur I am not sure. I just stumbled into it.

Where are the DivX files, are you guys still having problems going to divx/xvid and if so why? Encoding divx files isn't really that difficult, what's taking so long...my patience is running thin...

I'm still waiting..... When will "later tonight" be tomorrow morning?

Bring back XVID

Why did you guys stop using the xvid codec? Do you know how many people it angers?

Whats with the formats ? I mean c'mon...like .wmv isn't enough ? Why do people need Xvid encoded ones ? I've seen all the eps of dl.tv but I don't watch dl.tv more than once. The quality of .wmv is good enough. What's next ? .mkv ? .ogm ?

The WMV I downloaded was corrupt and wouldn't play. Before I download it again can someone confirm it is now fine (maybe my hard drive was struck by a stray neutrino or something). Thanks!

Why did ya not make a Xvid or Divx feed?
Keep up the show,Thanx

BRING BACK XVID

why does the wmv file always look crappy for the first day or two that a new show is out, but then it looks like a cleaner version is posted a few days later?

The WMV file craps out at about 10 minutes in, tried playing with Windows media, media classic, and VLC does the same with all, downloading MP4 version now, hope it doesnt do the same.

Luv the show, But is it possible to bring back XVID? It's much more Linux Friendly.

Of course you could just upload the raw MPEG and let us encode to whatever we want. haha

XVID!!!!! For us with media centers on our TV sets, this is important!!!!!!

Thanks

I have to admit, I'm starting to get frustrated with the whole xvid/divx thing. Okay, I'm not a big encoder myself, but people out there are doing it on a consistent basis who have a lot less money and personnel. I tried being patient for a few months while they worked it all out, now it's just weird. I don't get it. Whatever.

Great show. I'm not trying to whine or demand an XVID, but if it's possible, man would it be great.

Thanks for the return of the DIVX!!!

Thank you for bringing back xvid.

could you coax yoshi to come by and do something for us or roger or leo i miss everyone i see you guys and alex and kevin on the daily if i ever win the mega millions tech on tv would be back

Hahaha, firfox is great, didn't even get a notice that a a pop-up was blocked, but i'm also running zone alarm. Pat's cool, and i want to support the show so i took the time to take the survey.

Why try to use a pop-up in the first place? Don't most people block pop-ups as a matter of course these days because they are so damn annoying?

Will still fill the survey in as I love the show.

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Where is the DivX file? It says 4PM PST which translates to 7PM EST. It's now 10.20 PM and still no DivX download... =(

Episode 31 in DivX:

Will be available 4PM PST, Wednesday, February 1st.

umm ... it's 12:26AM PST, Thursday Feb 2nd...

It would be nice to see the results of the survey since I bothered to help with it. Minus people's personal info of course.

Episode 31 in DivX:

Will be available 4PM PST, Wednesday, February 1st.

Over 24 hours past the mark. What's up with that Rob and Patrick?

Hey guys luv the show but what happen to Xvid????

out the door???

"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?"

Uh, no, I've never seen that before. I prefer WMV because it streams well and I don't have to download anything to my computer. It's not like they only provide WMV, there are a variety of formats they offer to allow the "distribution of information"

Man, first you've dropped XviD, and now, you've also dropped DivX?

What happened?

Personally, I'd just use an mpeg2 source and autogk.

Set the output to a 175mb or 350mb divx/xvid file, and it'd look really good. Besides, it requires little effort on anyone's part, as the program figures out the appopriate bitrate itself.

This week's wmv is 640x480. It appears to have some minor interlacing issues (on like the full screen camera pans at the beginning) other than that though, it looks great.

I'm guessing this is why the divx was dumped. It was 640x480 and bigger.

So for anyone like me who the h.264 is too cpu intensive, this great.

Come on guys, we need and Xvid or DiVX version for those who watch on our DiVX capable DVD players. How come it is so hard to release in this format? Do you need a talented person to encode it for you?

I prefer XviD because I don't have to do anything to watch the show on my iPaq. DivX works but not as well. I guess I will have to go back to downloading the WMV and then converting it to XviD using VirtualDub. :( Thanks for the show. Keep up the great work and don't give up on XviD!

This is the best format! I can record two of them on a CD and play them on my Philips DVD player. It's like live TV on a 25 inch screen. You guys rock. Just like old times.

I thought there was something going here. I could watch your show on my 25 inch TV by recording the Divx file to a CD and playing it on my DVD player. It looked great! Who needs cable TV? Well I guess all good things come to an end.

Please bring on xvid :)

LOVE the show

For Patrick-

Please bring back the Xvid (or at least Divx) so that I can watch these on TV.

You shouldn't have to do an "extra capture and encode" to get to these formats - what is your workflow? Let me know and I'll troubleshoot it for you. I guarantee there's an easy solution to get to these formats.

Also, deinterlace, deinterlace, deinterlace. Again, I can show you how.

Much love for the content though. Just please don't shut out those of us who prefer supporting open source formats.

I agree that the Divx/Xvid download #'s are swayed by the fact that these versions are often days (dare I say even weeks) behind the other versions. I imagine that a lot of folk do like I do - download whatever version is up first and convert to Xvid or Divx. That's what I usually end up doing.

At the end of the day, the show is free, and you guys do a great job. Let me fix your workflow.

Wow, bad Vitsa install disk. That's rough.

Sheesh, these folks certainly love to whine. "too much talk, wahhh, you're not talking about what I want to hear cause I'M important and entitled to WHAT I WANT, wahh this show is all about MEEE"

Christ.

Good job guys, keep up the good work, and for the record, it was a damned fine show all the way around. I watch to HEAR nerds talking about technology, and I don't care what you cover as long as you keep covering it. Good work.

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where is Episode 36?

Wow my hands actually started shaking last night when dl.tv didnt arrive.

Keep up the good work Patrick and crew! Looking forward to the next episode!

WHERE IS THE STREAM??????

The natives are getting restless and trippin' out! Hey Patrick! Use emergency procedure #1. Whack it with the sledge hammer a few times. Don't forget to tape it so we can see.¶=0o

It works great on ripping dvd.

It works great on ripping dvd.

Patrick, What happened to "another fine blended edition..." ? You were so excited about Windows Vista, you forgot to properly open the show and look what happened!

For a fine blend you should showcase the Mac at least once in a while. Maybe OSX 101 as there are people out there who still think Macs can't use a two button mouse. How about forcing Robert to use a Mac for two weeks and report in. He can play his games on an Xbox if he gets Microsoft withdrawal. It would clue him in as to where all that "Vista Cool Guy" interface came from.

Damn you poeple are like animals. reminds me of when a goverment falls and poeple go nuts. calm down. everyone is going nuts. its pretty sad. hey patrick of robert. some input from you guys would be good. before someone pulls a gun in public due to DL.TV withdrawl.

The next installment of DL.TV will be Thursday, February 24th, 2006 4pm PST (7pm EST, Midnight GMT)

Posted By: pnorton

When?
Is that Friday the 24th or Thursday the 23rd?

Hey! I just started watching this EXCELLENT show a couple of days ago when I got my video iPod, which is a VERY good device! I thought I somehow killed the show because after I started watching it, there wasn't a new show for a while.

But, seriously, I really do LOVE this show. I'm an eighth-grader out in Indianapolis, and I watch your show on my new iPod on the way to school.

Thanks!!!

im guessing thursday. i think it may have been a typeo. i dont know for sure though.

Hey guys, you ROCK! I was a huge fan of TechTV untill G4 ate it up, I think your show dl.tv and the stuff on revision 3 like diggnation and Twit are making my tech life better :D I have a 5 mbps line for $25 a month in ohio and get speeds of around 800 k/s off your servers for the show, btw Robert heron is a Beast man, Pat norton is cool but robert seems like he knowes what he wants to tlk about everytime, and man Jim louderback is like Mr. 80's- haha Peace man -Pat- 0_0 :D

Welcome back to the 'net!
What happened to your SQL servers?!?!?! It was the sledgehammer wasn't it. Patrick was aiming for the Vista box and missed didn't he? :P

Well it's good that you're back - I hope things will be a bit more stable... ;)

Oh, and the obligatory: Give us the XviDivX!! And a Theora!! :D

Will be available late Friday. endquote

Translation: sometime March. maybe.

Great to hear XviD is available again.
...one up previous post, he he

What? He's lame becuase he wants video to be in a superior codec?

Some weeks there are xvids of the episodes. Some weeks there aren't. What's up with that??? I prefer xvid, as I can watch the episodes on my Philips DVD player and don't have to sit in front of the computer.

Ahh....why upload ipod crap first? I want to watch this on my 360. Do you guys really have that much of a demand to where the ipod users can't wait till the morning before their commute to dl'ed the episode? Seriously....nobody ever just dl'eds the ep and watches it on their ipod right away, they wait till they are on the subway, bus, etc. to watch it.

Ahh....why upload ipod crap first? I want to watch this on my 360. Do you guys really have that much of a demand to where the ipod users can't wait till the morning before their commute to dl'ed the episode? Seriously....nobody ever just dl'eds the ep and watches it on their ipod right away, they wait till they are on the subway, bus, etc. to watch it.

Ahh....why upload ipod crap first? I want to watch this on my 360. Do you guys really have that much of a demand to where the ipod users can't wait till the morning before their commute to dl'ed the episode? Seriously....nobody ever just dl'eds the ep and watches it on their ipod right away, they wait till they are on the subway, bus, etc. to watch it.

well, it does say 'morning' for the wmv version!!

Why is the media player not first anymore for downlaoding?

Are you discriminating against windows users by putting up the iPod version out first? this is bs.. i demand an explanation of why u cant just dump the stream to a computer at your so called "Labs" and then not having to encode it! WMV encoding doesnt even take that long.

What happened to the h.264 file? Is it getting dropped or will it come out later today?

i like dvorak, but i dont know why he would do this. it is clear that ziff davis isnt willing to put any production money toward their shows, even though they are the only ones who run commercials. i think this would have been an awesome show to do on the twit network.

Its obvious that most of you have not worked in large corporate environments. The reason for the demotion of wmv encoding in favour of apple first is money.Apple tells ZD to push Apple and you will see more ad revenue.Other scenarios:
ZD and Microsoft have a falling out over billing ? Ad placements and # of ads booked? The point being is that you will never know the truth, you will always receive bland corporate double speak.

when was/is this supposed to be on. is it supposed to air on thurs or fri?

shouldnt it be on now? i mean 2pm est is 11am pst.

How about doing this using open standards?
If it isn't viewable in VLC or QuickTime I won't be attempting to watch it.

George gave the attention to WMD, but the evil in the U.S. is WMA and WMV.

was it ever on the front page? i dont think it was. but, yea, typical for dl.tv. they must be busy posting episode 40... oh wait, those links dont work either.

Dvorak understands what makes good technology, but doesn't have a clue about what a good product is. Plus he is hella-annoying to listen to with is whiney voice and his off-the-wall sensational theories.

my 2 cents.

I never heard a bigger bunch of whining wankers

Yeah nice work Ipoddian.

trying to download the wmv, but it wont, just downloads 200 some kbs, and then says its done, I'm in the area of Council bluffs, IA.

Please help.

last time i checked this was a public board ... this is not a private club with a membership so in the meantime .. imma keep on whinning all i want! lol

anyone else having problems with the wmv file, I can't get it to work?

yep, i'm having problems with the wmv version as well. cant even download the divx as it isnt there!

What happend to h.264?

I always see this show in h.264, it's the best quality for me, now I'll have to download another format to see the show :( ...

I tried to download with firefox, and it crapped out as well, but I accidentally re-tried and clicked on 'open in IE Tab' - since I have the extension, and it worked

They should go back to posting the wmv link first! Anyways, the link doesn't work. It's now 3:27 EST and my day is almost over. Needed something to watch. Now I will have to wait till Monday otherwise.

booyah!

I have a G5 Powermac. I watch ABC, CBS, CNN, and a ton of other media on the Mac. I have Windows Media 9, and Flip4Mac. I have two kinds of failure with two kinds of sites: one, with the LA Times, and this player, I get a complaint about the URL. Everything comes up, and seems ready to go, and then a dialog about the address that can't be found.

The other is MSNBC, which has this DirectX player, I guess, because it comes up and informs me that I have the wrong OS, and I should download Windows. On my computer, this woud amount to 2 or 3 gigs of dead weight. On yours? Same thing.

I understand MSNBC. This is the way MS has always worked: take a public format, make it proprietary, and then only allow its customer to access it. It's called monopoly. But DLTV? Why? Aren't you trying to get across to all users, no matter the OS? And if you must use WMV, there are tons of sites that enable me to view Windows Media with no problems. Are you telling me you don't have any good programmers?

Why do you guys insist on pulling Hohn C. Dvorak out of the hole he crawled into for every new tech show? The guys acts like an 85 year old man with the opinions of one. This show and TWIT would be far better off if you guys just let him out to pasture where he belongs...

Some of you whiners need to get a life!

So do whiner, whining about the whiners

whats with the 4-chan lingo, Joe?

I just found out about Digital Life and watched episode 39 and 40. This is what I have been waiting for: interesting, useful content on technical topics. I REALLY appreciate having this available as a free service.

Wishing you much success!
Bill from Virginia

I'm downloading it now at 700Kbps, no problems.

What happened to the download speed thingy?

I'm getting 37KB/s on a 3MBit Alltel connection.

I'll see this in about an hour and a half.

*sigh*

We could download your show much faster if you had torrents up. ;)

Finally a version!

I wonder why the WMV version is so big this time, usually it's the smallest file.

Was it encoded at a higher bitrate?

Whats the damn difference??? Why bother having 2 that are the same?

You must have stayed up all night to encode these. Thanks!

I've decided to look on the bright side on the download speed issue. I'm getting 11MB per minute and comparing that to the old dial up which was 1MB every 5 minutes I'm happy as a clown now.

Now I can watch while I eat lunch today--it's a nice break! Thanks! :-)

It would be very interesting to know if the reported speeds are in KBps or Kbps as one is 8 times faster than the other.

Also, please keep up the .wmv format files. With Media Center, on my 37" Sharp LCD, butt firmly planted in my recliner and MS remote in hand, it looks just as good as H.264 and it much more convenient than mousing on my knee

i love that.. complaits about 700kbps+ speeds

Hate to see what the complaints would be like when you live in an area where political, distance and economical situations mean that you're stuck on 512/128 and where cable was (until recently, and in the such small areas that it's offered) running at 2mbps/128...

anyway, good show, and i'm getting fast speeds on the run-of-the-mill 512/128 DSL....

*grumble* budget 768 my ass.. when your budget plans are 256/64 (and top speed for ADSL1 is 1.5mbit), then you can complain *grumble*

Wow, 523 MB for the DivX version - way to go!

Don't get me wrong - I love it! But I really feel sorry for those:
1 - On Dial-up / slooowww "broadband".
2 - DL.TV crew - who have to pay for the bandwidth...

I think DL.TV really needs to be distributed via BitTorrent - before the DL.TV crew runs out of cash to pay for the bandwidth!

Hi,

Great show. You guys are entertaining to watch. Why are the DIVX downloads always so large? I like watching the show on my divx player (as do a lot of people) and like to fit 2-3 shows on a CD. Also, it seems like divx /xvid doesn't get the respect that the other codecs get (i.e. no divx file for Cranky Geeks). I would like DIVX would be the FIRST format you encode to and not the last or just an after thought.

Another quick release!!

Awesome stuff guys!!! ^_^

You guys rock getting this done earlier than usual. I hope this becomes a routine. I've heard you've been using a new Quad G5. Those are wicked fast!

Shut down your machine, shut down the router (if any), shut down your cable/dsl modem. After about a minute or two start it all back up in this order: Modem, Router, PC/Mac. Sometimes I get ridiculously low speeds and have to do this. It usually always works. It's called power cycling. This guy explains it here: http://schmail.com/dslmon/

Good luck! ¶=0)

As usual, more erroneous information about lossy audio codecs on the show. The file CAN also be a wma pro file. Using dbpoweramp, for example, one can encode with wma pro instead of wma standard. WMA pro is not supported on any portable music player (yet), but may get more support once Vista goes golden. And it is MUCH better than wma standard. Recommending Music Match to rip audio files????um Robert-OUCH!!!!!!

The show is out 3am PST. This isn't like you guys. Rock On!

Why is the WMV so slow and chopply when run on my Axim X30? It use to run great.

which of the file formats (wmv,divs,quicktime) does dlTV look best in?

Wow! Another swift showing! :D

Keep up the great work guys!!!

This show is overtaking twit and diggnation as my most regularly downloaded show ;)

As for the formats, I just like XviD/DivX because they both work on pretty much everything I have - My DVD player, my PDA, my computer (Linux and Windows!).

None of the other formats even come close to that level of compatibility.

That said, MPEG4 (REAL MPEG4!! Not H.264 or some freaky not-quite-MPEG4!) is the next most compatible format.
Theora I wouldn't mind either, but this is more for idealogical rather than practical reasons ;)

Well, with the exception of Patrick editing out the fun part of last night's episode. I don't even bother with TWiT or Digg anymore. Leo's gone too Maccentric and Digg you have to be a member to get their vids...

Maybe we can talk Patrick into doing a bloopers show as CHRISTMAS present to us viewers!

Aaaand it's another simultaneous launch and on time!

Awesome! :D

So you guys have sorted out your encoding problems then I take it? ;)

Is it just me or does the 150mb wmv look way better than the 350mb divx.

If it's just me I'll shut up.

I agree wmv much better than divx

Now I have to download not 2 but now 3 files. To see what you all talking about, and the 3rd is H.264. I'm having a hard time deciding what format to stick with.

The links all work fine now. Good work guys ;)

Living in Australia I've been getting DL Speeds or 50kbps or lower but this time I'm getting 350kbps so whatever you've done I like it.

Worthless.

Went to apples pages on bootcamp...Lame!

Just buy a cheap pc.
Just buy a cheap Mac.

It's far cooler to have more then one machine sitting
in your space.

I got 6 pc's and 4 macs running in my space they are all networked together.

all this running in my home office.

It looks like the people at apple are bored and need to get out of the office.

or maybe it's brain cells melting at apple, I dont know I give up with apple

Ever see those commercials about how boredom is a sad thing.

Then you guys at DL give it press time,SAD SO SAD.

I'm not about to buy a $$$Mac$$$ or a cheep one with no hope of running a pc game. Why hasn't Microsoft or some hacker installed OS 10 on a PC?

Hey guy, I really enjoyed the first intro where Pat may have said the word sh*t. That's real live TV. I wish you would have left that part in the download.

Pat you seemed upset with yourself and the comment about Robert and ???? (I don't remember the name) being the only good things about your show. I think ALL of you are doing a great job! Keep you chin up.

you didn't code your shop properly and you can see ALL the files available on the directory

http://www.sorensonstore.com/

WMV is just a big 'ol file cuz it's jam packed with a great show! Even with my ever-so-slow outdated work PC, it's only a 20 minute download--no biggie!

Thanks for another great show!

WTF!??????

I´d just like to know what software you guys are using to encode, especially the MP4 and H264 files?

Thanks. love the show. more HDTV please.

Yes I've noticed the same problem as Nathan described, black aren't black at all, not even close. I believe this is the 3rd if not 2nd times it's happening.

Besides that issue the show is really good. Keep up the good work robert and patrick ! and of course people behind the scenes.

I guess I was the only one who liked watching DLTV in the WMV player window. Is it coming back?

My usual WMV download starts off great, but suddenly gets stopped at 20MB. Have tried twice, same thing.

Beta crap, won't play DL.TV show. Might as well wait till the next release.

You transcode, I download, then I transcode, then I load.

is anyone else having probs with the wmv file?

I just tried downloading the show (Episode 62) in WMV format and only got ONE-BYTE! So I tried downloading the MOV format and again only get a ONE BYTE FILE! No matter which format I try downloading I only get a ONE-BYTE FILE! For the WMV format it's not even close to the 218-MEGA-BYTE file which is posted as the size. What gives? (Yes, I have cable high-speed internet access supposibly able to go 3MBps although it usually only downloads around 700KBps). Sounds like a "server" blew up or the new rendering rig took a dump... (AGAIN!)...

DL.TV why must you tease me like this. I thought I was going to start my day off with a little DL.TV when I saw the links were up, but it is just a cruel joke.

You guys are making it so hard to keep supporting the show. I really enjoy the show, however, a show for geeks by geeks who can't get things right. . .I don't know. Patrick, I hope you're reading this! First, I can never watch the show live for whatever reason, and now I can't even find a link that works! Was someone overzealous and posted the links before the video was rendered???

The WMV edition works just fine. Somebody needs to fix that Divx video asap.

$250?

And this little piggy, (Nintendo), cried wii wii wii all the way to the bank.

did they ever talk about the wii pricing???

Can't you just give your DivX encode the file extension of the container format the media uses? It's an AVI file damnit! I just rename them to avi so they work with programs like VirtualDub ect.

By the way, Great show.

i'll be waiting with baited breath for these linux demos you were talking about.

Hey guys,
I always end up having to download your .mp3 files to consume the show, despite playing them on a windows mobile 2003 device.

I would love if you could put up a low res (320x240) version of the wmv to download, it takes way too long to transcode it in the morning before work. You used to have one, and it rocked, but now you don't.

I'm sure I'm probably not the only person in this situation, although it seems to me that every day I see less and less pda's around.
Thanks.

This is the email I sent them:

You already have a widescreen version. Kinda.

If you have a widescreen display and want to watch it in the entire
screen all you have to do is this:

1. Open with Media Player Classic
2. Click 'View'
3. Scroll to 'Video Frame'
4. Select 'Touch Window From Outside'

Now when you full screen the video it will use the whole screen.

-Dolph
Albany, NY

Also, it doesn't stretch either. It basically clips the top and bottom a little.

Hey this is a question but lets say I had unlimited system resources, which file format would have the best quality

Yay, 9KB/s download speeds!!!

wow, who cares?

wow - get a life people!

dltv is awwwwwssssssooooommmmmeeeeee!

My internet is down for tonight, so I'm patiently leeching DL.TV form my neighboors wifi connection at 140 KB/s.

Now I know why Patrick couldn't get streaming to work on Thursday, he was too busy trying to find a third shirt! LOL

nice bartles and james plug, patrick

I want to watch dl.tv! =D

Well I hope you guys get it worked out, thanks for doing this for the people less fortunate than myself.

No link yet ?

Personally, I prefer 320X240 DivX for use with TCMP on my Ipaq. But the .WMV is a playable alternative.

Rick D.

I want to run the traceroute, but I don't know what the IP is to traceroute to, and I don't run Windows to use the program. Is there a way for me to do this from my Linux box?

Vin Disel is not in XXX State of the Union. Ice Cube replaced him in the second movie. Not that I ever saw it. Looked horrible

how do you people get over the 1mbps mark?

My SBC Yahoo DSL (1.5mbps advertised) only gets 200kbps at the most on a good day.

Currently my dl.tv download is about 25kbps, becuase I'm sucking all my bandwidth up with other downloads. Should be done in a couple hours....

You are talking about using RG6 (TV Coax) for moving a 2.4 GHz WiFi signal over. 2 things it is not a matter of leaking, hey you can use a quad-shield to fix that, but TV cables are 75 ohms and you need 50 ohm cables to keep the resistance in the antenna on the wifi AP or Client the same, otherwise you are going to burn out your radio because the difference in resistance.

I feel like the Flanders kids when Ned tells them there won't be any presents & this will be an "imagination Christmas".
YAAAAY! Imagination Christmas!
;)
Seriously - thanks for not giving up entirely & just saying "next Tuesday".

BAKA!!!

What kind of hardware are they doing the encoding on that it takes two days to encode less then an hour of video?

hey, just wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed your show... its really nice to know that theres still quality television out there!

just so you know i was a really big fan of zdtv... or tech tv and really liked the screensavers... thats how i found this show i was runnin a search on google and up comes all this stuff about... well ill spare you some time and get on with my letter. long story short i found a site that really appreciates tech tv... before it became g4. they said the closest thing to screensavers was you guys... and they were right...

anyways, i just wanted to say that this is my first time viewin and it wont be my last!

thanks, and if you could get back to me with some backround info of the show that would be awesome!

wantzdtvback@hotmail.com

What is going on around here? Where's the show? Why is the page all S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-D out?!?

I have NEVER seen a horizontal scroll so L-O-N-G as this before. This is incredibly hard to read!

What's going on??

Don't you watch the show? It's the new HD-ready 1080p page for wide-screen displays. I mean, really! Where have you been?

Hey I thought that the download was to be up long before now. I want my dl tv

Nice.

Whats happening guys, at least with Team Fortress 2 we've got a solid release date now... You keep slipping!
Just being cheeky... Keep going guys, I look forward to seeing it with a solemn apology coming Tuesday ;-)

Thanks for all the hard work, it's muchly appreciated!

WTG Patrick, I dont' think anyone would have blammed you if you had decided to leave it till monday.

I wouldn't, it's weekend.

My internets are working :D big thanks!

YAY its up...boredom will cease for ahile...

Yayuhzz!

... Are Nerds.

Great, the show is up. :)

Keep up the good work.

THANK YOU!

I can get my DL.TV fix finally. Where's the needle...

Wow I am hearing the DL speeds you guys get, and all I can say is that you guys must have the really good stuff. Here in Arkansas with Cox Communications basic package I only get a 1mb connection wihich translates into about 55 kb/s if noone else uses the net.

Sheesh, you upped this fast.

Thanks for the early download.
Patrick you need to cut down
on the caffeine. Your hands
are shaking on the mouse button:-)

Thanks, guys, for getting the downloads up so fast! :)

Im getting the download a 670k roadrunner in Wisconsin!! Love the show, I have every episode

Yey. Shows not loading

nothing is showing for me

FRIGGIN IDIOTS!

Grrrrrrrrrr. Ok Ok Take your time and think......

Finally got to watch live and its not loading.

..Our will is spinning as fast as she can, I can't give it anymore!

working!!!

It's working

YESSS!!!

WOOO!

i got it!!! yureka!!!

Yay! I Yay! I

Its working

There they GOOO!!! ;) Got so dang excited they had to start the opening again!!

Here in SK, CA had a 276 Kb/s stream that looked like a web cam with good sound on dialup.

I wonder if they used the new Core 2, It's not even 6 AM yet (EST). It's usually not until around noon that they roll this out.

WMV files will not playback on my media server. It's not standard WMV files.

There are about 500 freeware programs that convert WMA to MP3. Problems over.

Not exactly uber-quality, but its something:
http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000323073831/

thats where all your bandwidth is going;)

hey there! I've got a question. I was wondering if anyone else was having a problem with WMP11 not streaming the dl.tv WMV file? I'm able to download it, and play it, just can't stream it like i used to in WMP10...thanks!

They orginal Crank park was sooo much better, Someone link us to the orginal!

Yay a new show! WOOT!

I predict heavy downloads lol! Hope I got here first! :-)

I owned that exact pattern on a shirt way back in 1976,amazing how that circle turns.I say, Keep wearing it!!

awesome show live now i have to watch it in higher definition :)

DLTV RAAAAWKS!

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Doin' great guys! :D
Does this mean you've figured out a more 'streamlined' way of doing things? Or are you just putting in overtime? (I hope it's the former!!)

Either way, great job getting them out so quickly! ;)
(And by them I mean my beloved AVI ;))

I do second some of the concerns about the AVI's size 'tho; It's almost a full CD!
I think this is because you tend to make them relatively high resolution - I can't speak for anyone else here, but 480x320 would be *fine* for me!
(I watch it on my Zodiac 2 you see... ;))

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The WMV RSS feed has still not be updated to include this episode. Is this simply an oversight?

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Man that WMV version looks like it was shot with my digital camera. Come on H.264!

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Ther eis no doubt. They have the best technology. Hopefully they make it available and affoardable.

www.itiva.com

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Why can't we just download it? Stream stop before show's end.

Would you recommend hiring a personal injury lawyer to help me?