Yay first time live woot!

This sounds like it will be a pretty awesome episode. **First to Post**

Really excited! can't wait!

Looks like i beat u to first post

Anyone know when the stream normally starts up? cos i just wanna make sure its actually working at my end...

man u guys r really nerds

First time watching live and I'm having connection problems -_-

Looking forward to the show! :-)

Yay it works!

Wee

omg the stream just died

MMM. Crash-tastic!

Server down! Man the bilge pumps!

It just stopped mid-sentence on Robert! Are you getting the same thing?

:(:( dead for me

What is going on? the live stream just died after like 1 min.

is anyone not getting sound on this? okay .. . . and now it just crapped out entirely . . . awesome

Is it just me or did the stream just die?

Just cut out on my end.

I guess I'll go back to playing with my Wii.. ;)

Video just die?

dead for me to

Darn! it Died!

Hey, whats happened? cant connect to live stream

What the....?

is it on now?

it went away???!!!!???!!!

is anyone not getting sound on this? okay .. . . and now it just crapped out entirely . . . awesome

The stream just died on me. Nooooooooo

Mine is dead too.

DEAD

am I the only one that saw 6 minutes and then it's dead? My connection is fine, but now all the wmp says is ready, and when I push play nothing.

The feed just died on me and I can't get it back up. Anybody else getting this?

Died for me too.

I hope they know the stream has gone down

Robert must have said the magic word.

STREAM IS DOWN!

this is crap!!!

If you shake the vid window it will start moving...woops...nope.

Dead here just says ready def there end

Died for me too!

Pleased to see im not the only one though!

Mine started then dropped out.

The last three shows have all had problems - before that I did not have problems...

yep, another crash in progress

they killed DL.TV

mine dies so i tried it again it worked for a couple of seconds then died

My day is ruined now :(

My day is ruined now :(

Gone gone with the wind . . .

Wii all gonna die O NOES

so I'm not crazy that there is no stream coming in?

It's Gone!!!!!

watching this live is a waste of time

First day i try to watch dl.tv live it craps out.. how much fun is that =?

Not again................

Watching the live stream, Robert says: "Get XP Media Center and you won't be able to play DVD's on it...".

Then the stream died, it came up: "Waiting..."

It now says filename is incorrect, source file does not exist.

Is this me or you guys having problems?

Does that mean your playing with your Wii Wii?

NM

Obviously everyone is having the same problem with the feed not working, if it doesn't return soon I'm gonna have to wait for the download.

it's dead here too

gess we will whit 4 the xvid

First time watching live, and all it ever said was ready, never started :(

remember...it's pronunced "WHeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!"

i want to cry...

This is what u get when you have MS inside.

I was watching the show live and for some odd reson your show went dead on me.

Ok so when this happens does it normally come back up? Or are we through for the rest of the night?

Hey the stream just died. Using Flip4Mac on my Mac and nothing. :(

OMFG , this is totally hax

Maybe too many people are watching the live version?

The show feed suddenly went T.U.

Back a month or two ago DLTV used to stream perfectly. I guess you get what you pay for, and they will post the files tomorrow anyway.

Sounds of Nothingness....

2nd ever live feed for me and it has died again!

please fix it now please

wtf

not again...

how bout you put a camera on a pc screen playing the video right after it is over on a continous loop

why did it crash and will i have to wait for download tomorrow>

just stopped streaming.

I got a dead stream here too. Grrrrrr!

Not even 5 minutes into the show while Robert Heron was talking about how Windows XP Media Centre Ediition does not support DVD playback. You need another separate DVD software program, according to Robert.

Nintendo got pissed at Patrick's making fun of Wii and shut DL.TV down...

Good times.

Atleast we got to hear norton say we a billion times

My wife is crying. Ok it's about something else but I need dl.tv bad

Must have DL.TV to make it thru the last hours of the day! Bring feed back! :)

He's Dead Jim!!!

DLTV: Stop using Bill's shite.

Maybe someone laid a bad ethernet cable in the corner again instead of throwing it away.

I blaim the viewers. Yes, all of you!
Now everybody, close your browsers, turn off your PCs and let me watch my DLTV!!!

Thank you.

DED!! hope they just bring it back up and restart the show. thats if they know it did this

kewl this is my first time watching the show live and this hapns! :S im not liking the black screen... :)

Guess it is time to forget attempting to view this live anymore CAN'T DEPEND UPON DL.TV for LIVE FEEDS.
I will just download the next day and watch without any issues.....
Seems to be what happens when a good thing gets to well known.

Goodbye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys really need to ask someone for help here..... I have been watching the show archived for many moons now, and today thought I'd try for the live infotainment value.... nada. Also, the .mov version of the last segment had some error in the encoding that made searching it without it crashing impossible- accident?

Is there a dl.tv irc channel?

This is what happens when you put an emotional chip in an happy go lucky piece of hardware..... MAC is MAD!!!!!!LOL.

Not Quite Ready For Prime Time crew . . .

maybe check out Patrick's friends at twit.tv or commandN or lab rats tv

me angry
me want tv
me no want wait until tommorow
make fix now
do it

Sometimes when you are on the cutting edge, you bleed, lol! Imagine the poor staff scrambling on the other side! All we have to do is sit and wait and play with our wii wii's lol! ;-)

The feed cut out for me a few minutes ago.

Patrick, check your AIM
I got some tips for you.
Don't get mad, just call for HELP!

Love, Leo L.

what is the best format for watching the show once it is available to download i have a pentium 300 and ihave to watch it through orb
which uses least amount of cpu

I wonder if Patrick & Robert & everyone knows about this problem? Or are they just going on with the show?

there probably just goin on with the show completely oblivious to the fact that NO ONE IS WATCHIN!

Yeah the stream died out for me too, I've even tried the http://zdpub-diglifestudio.wm.llnwd.net/zdpub_diglifestudio URL and still get nothing, but I can ping the server, so I have no idea. It does seem that the live stream is having more problems though.

This never happens on Conan!!!!! Oh wii, I gonna watch Cone zone now. YOUR HEAD ASPLODE!!

We should all send an email to DL.TV!

> Nintendo got pissed at Patrick's making fun of Wii and shut DL.TV down...

I know my wi-wi has an all seeing eye.

Record the show in the morning and then encode it. Post it at 4p PDT (7p EDT and 2300 UTC).
Then we can all attempt to download the file - without crashing your server..

THERE HAS GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY....

It's funny how everybody gets so bent :)

they probably know but are carrying on so that they have a full show to distribute tomorrow - save having to record things twice

I'm sure they know and the show must go on, so I guess I'll see you all on the download page tomorrow, lol!

Show's almost over anyway--it's already 25 minutes in!

Much like the xbox 360, what a load of rubbish that is, shame about the feed

Hey, maybe they'll restart the show at 7:30 or 8:00. Let's all keep our fingers crossed. BTW, not working on my Mac either. (Any other Mac users out there?)

;0

There it is -- Screensavers died after G4 bought TechTV
Now it looks like DL.TV is going to be bought out by G4.

When will they leave our tech shows alone????????????????

Is that really Leo Laporte that posted here or does someone just go by that name as a joke? If it is really him, just wanted to say hi and I love all the work you guys do at TWiT.

Patrick, did you get something from your trip and decided,,,,o,,,,let's say...BETA it on this stream. Didn't we learn from prior compulsions?

An update would be cool, just to let us know if you guys plan on resuming the show tonight or if we can just considered it canned for the evening...

THE LIVE FEED DIED!!!!!

my life is over

RE: The "Is that really Leo" comment, I was wondering the same thing. It'd be cool if it were him. Hey, Leo, if that's you, TWiT is awesome!

Yup. i'm on my mac - and nothing.

need to start up a new tv channel called tech tv
it would be great
they could focus on all technology
you could have new stuff
special shows
great idea
the latest stuff and leave games on gfour
i'd watch

im a mac user , and no feed here ether

I bet if Leo had a show it would screw up

Yeah kyle they did that once it was called tech tv and it got bought out

Cool, another Mac user. Matt, PPC or Intel? PPC here.

Click!!!!!!

I Ment wouldN'T >_I Ment wouldN'T >_

i have the stream just looping in winamp lol so many

connecting

bab req
lol

:(

i can just imagine the rat race that's going on there if they're trying to fix it so they can go live again

Read the news at G4. Seems they don't want Partick working in Tech TV regardless of where it is at.

Someone make an official IRC channel for dl.tv pleeeeaaaseee!

i loved tech tv
i loved screensavers
i loved fresh gear
it was great need to get something like that and buyout g4
i don't have the money though

The story appears to be correct.

PPC - Powerbook G4 and iMac G5.

sorry if i posted the same thing twice , im on PPC , G3, and a couple G4s

iMac G5 here.

i bet they dos'ed

man oh man imagine that load on there net at connect

Wow, over 100 comments, amazing. I don't think that it has ever gone this high before.

Please tell me G4 is not geting in bed with DL.TV

It ain't ever going to happen. G4 Sucks.

I just to relax before iI go to work & the stream died.
gees i'll have to wait till saturday now:((

lets go for a thousand (as long as there intelligant)

Will this show stream later, or just be for download ?

I wonder if there's a limit to how many comments a single thread can have? A thousand would be cool, but why not go for a million? (haha)

No way G4 will get their grubby hand on DL.tv! DL.TV is ownd by Ziff davis and they aint going to G4

Maybe G4 can keep up the feed.. Just will have to wait and see!

OOP more than 40 mins now, shows over folks!

They must have no idea that the stream has stopped. If they had a fatal gear problem they would have let us know on the home page. They should have someone monitoring the feed just like a TV station uses a OTA set to see what they are actually putting out.

I'm surprised there are other mac users here - I always thought it would be a bit of a windows dominated viewer-base.

I don't think that we can get enough "smart" posts, to get to a thousand. I don't think they have enough viewers to get to a million, but that would be cool.

Hey guys, I keep getting emails from this Joey guy who's offering to install Lindows[sic] on my machine and wants a gaming rig in return. Will you tell him to quit emailing me!!!

twit.tv!

The same could have been said about them getting Tech TV

It was just a joke. I didn't think people would wonder for real.

Just saw the ending credits...
Great 5 minutes then the ending credits...

Oh, well Thanks G4 Network

They should do a poll to see how many people are using Windows / Mac / Linux. Just for curiosity's sake.

Verizon bites so bad! They toasted my DSL connection... I finally clocked it @ 20.3 Kbps! yeah - less than half of my dialup modem (which I'm using now just to gripe).
So much for catching the show live. Maybe by the time it's finally rendered Verizon will have gotten their act together & I'll be able to DL it in under a week!:P
The only thing I hate more than telcos are cablecos, so I'm boxed! :(

Great to see all the comments but I think the show would have been better.

Yeah but ziff davis owns so much, PC Mag, 1 up, DL.tv, Cranky Geeks, EGM, ECT.

i use linux and got paranoid that it was my Zenwalk install that messed up my live feed. I went over to my ubuntu machine just to make sure.

Kev, what distro do you use? Ubuntu? I have another box that's running Suse. I think it's a cool distro. I decided to check it out after I heard Patrick & Robert talking about it a little while back. Used to use Ubuntu; now use Suse.

and im George Washington

I Agree, lol

Maybe Roger has a new pair of sneakers, and got tripped in the camera cord? Naa

Well I have tried ubunta, suse, pclinuxos and couple others, not found ONE that would find my optical ps2 mouse, if I did I think I would switch to linux.

This is the pits.

O Rly?

They really need to set up some forums. Communicating through comments is getting a little ridiculous.

Hey, did you try Knoppix? I think of all Linux distros it has the best hardware detection.

Ya Rly

IIRC, they did a poll not too long ago. I don't remember the details, but I DO remember that it was one of those nasty, "sinisterservices.com" shady-looking, you-cannot-pass-go-until-you-click-this-damn-window popup pain-in-the-ass, 15-page, fingernail torture surveys. I sure hope they got good data from it.

i have Ubuntu installed on my "stable" machine. Recently i aquired a new PC that i decided to test a bunch of distros on. Right now it's Zenwalk but i think the last show i watched was while i was on PCLinuxOS. (By the way, Suse looked cool, i just didn't spend much time on it when i couldn't figure out a way --quickly -- to add repos to yast2. i'll be giving it a try again when my friend and i start our LUG)

Mickey: yeah, that's the one sucky thing about linux. some hardware just isn't supported or, if it's supports, it isn't WELL supported. I think that might be one of the reasons you hear patrick mention screen resolutions so much. ;)

A dl.tv forum is a cool idea. I think all the new linux users could share a lot of good tips, for example. However, judging from the family of extremetech web pages, extremetech may publish a lot of hacking guides, but apparently web design is not an area of expertise. The ziffdavis sites are trash.

Luckily, there are plenty of other useful forums out there, except for one - a dl.tv forum.

HNo not tried it, I will give it a shot. I have really considered moving to linux, but you wonder when it can't find a mouse LOL. Suse was the worse, it didn't even find my router. I am poor at best with linux, apparently lots to learn to use it. EAsy to install now but afterwards!!!!!!!!!

I think it'd be cool if you could triple-boot Windows, Mac, & Linux on a Mactel machine, particularly one of the new 17" Macbook Pros. That'd be the ultimate uber-geek laptop! Get the 120-gig hard drive, devote 40 gigs to each OS... :)

That would be pretty awsome, I would get that laptop.

do a search on triple boot bootcamp, many people are interested in this. Personally, I think virtualization is more valuable.

Thanks for the info on Zenwalk, I believe I will check it out and see how it does. Least they smart enough to use Firefox :)
Can't be all bad!

Sorry everyone lost their stream, but now I feel better about ditching my toasted DSL for dialup so I could at least read the posts :)
Maybe they need a court stenograher to keep transcripts going when the stream dies :D
It's back to the future of text based narrative: The "Infocom edition" - or DL.TXT ;)

O Rly?

Don't get me started....Grumble....See what happens when all the friendly hardware decides to go postal... see.... can't you see it.... It's happening...MACTEL goes live.........

.

.

Linux just had to move in too. Now see the power and mightyness of MACTELINUX. Fear it!

So what happened guys? can you brief us? Any information at all would be helpful. Thanks in advance.

ad birgth, mediaplex... wetf, are you guys being raped by adds, or did one of you pencil pushers forget to carry the one/ dot the eye.

Good dltv.

At least they didn't mention the I-pod.

Except for answering desert-boy's question, they haven't mentioned ipods in about 5 weeks. What is it with you Windows nazis?

DL.TV Episode 56: Live at 4p PDT (7p EDT and 2300 UTC)
Filed Under:

Hello viewers and welcome to another Fine Blended Edition of DL.TV.

On the show today:

News:

Nintendo Names the Revolution

Enjoy

Wow. I just got back from a late meeting and now I am so happy! Normally I would be sad that I missed the live feed but it looks like I will catch it archived on Friday?,Saturday?, oh whatever the day. Hey maybe we could have a listserv that would email us out when the downloads are ready?

That was the only bad episode of DLTV I've ever seen. Jesse James Garrett, besides saying "uh" no less than 1,500+ times, is one of the least compelling speakers in the history of uncompelling speech. Please *never* do that again.

In a previous episode you guys visited: http://www.free-codecs.com

They have free DVD codecs for download...including CyberLinks and InterVideos

FINALLY.... a new commercial. If it fits, it Ships. I never thought i'd say this... but i'm so happy there's a new commercial on there :P

Patrick forgot to name a few great features that I.E. 7 has that FF doesn`t...QUICK TABS and the ANTI-PHISHING filter. And it still appears I.E. renders pages fastest.

I use USPS Flat Rate Boxes all the time, and no, I'm not being sarcastic. Being an eBay seller, USPS Priority Mail is the best thing since sliced bread!

It's great to see non-technology sponsors on DL.TV! That's the future of pod/vidcasting.

Good point re: non-tech sponsors. Although, it could be someone at either usps or dl.tv marketing is REALLY on the ball and thinking "ebay" - no stranger to the tech enthusiast scene.

Can we hit 200 posts???

Am I The only person who saw patrick's aim screen name in that episode, because i could read it and it is now on my buddylist.... He Just Doesn't Like To Respond To Me

I wish nintendo would have stick with the old name revolution than wii fro their next gaming console. Forget the IE beta2. Opera software just release their new beta for Opera 9.

LOL, 200

CrankyChatUser?

Shouldn't that screen name be more appropriate for Dvorak's "Cranky Geeks" ?

har har har, i got his screen name also....and i guess he responds to me :)