Good Luck on the show!

More?,how much more is possible!!

It's the best time of the week, DL.tv time!!!!

Thought I was late and found out I was early--good! Can't wait to see the show! :-)

yo rob. what gives with the hair bro, just wake up?

Robert Nice Hair!

The wmv feed still doesn't validate correctly in fireant.tv and democracy player

NICE!

I was about to say you guys haven't had any destroyed hardware on the show, but you came through today. Thanx

I'm getting an error connecting. I assume if the link is up, it should connect?

Windows Media Player cannot connect to the server. The server name might not be correct, the server might not be available, or your proxy settings might not be correct.

I just purchased a 20" iMac, how do I view the show live in Safari or FireFox? I have Quicktime Pro & VLC. VLC will only play the audio stream.

Thanks, Toddman

I can't watch the program. WMP give me an error

Toddman, try downloading the WMV commponent for OS X. I am not sure if it will help because I never watch the live show but none the less a very good add on for Quicktime and I know I can watch the live show just don't know if it is WMV but looking at the posts above it must be.

http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/17787
Long live H.264

Hey guys... The WMV versions will be available, "eventually." Can't you tell, Patrick and the DL.TV gang doesn't like WMV and they'll favor all but MPEG.4 over it. Heck, Patrick could barely muster the strength to mention WMV when he sited stats opposite formats... it was subtle, but his hesitation was surely there.

They'll ignore that a) WMV9 - with an open standard version built on it, VC-1 [adopted by the DVD Forum, by the way...] is very popular and b) that most people don't watch "PodCasts" on an iPod at all - in fact, fewer than 20% of all PodCasts are ever moved to a mobile device of any kind and finally c) most PodCasts are viewed on PC's - which all have WMP and capable of playing, you guessed it, WMV!

But forget any hint of common sense. This is their world and most of us are just not cool enough to "get it."

So, expect to see H.264 favored over anything else and head on over to Apple.com and your mandatory dose of iTunes as you try to get a viewer.

No Thanks! I'll wait until they yank their heads out of their fourth points of contact. BTW, DL.TV, why don't you encode the WMV's a bit on up there and a lot closer to what the format supports at its upper end?

Sweet! Looks like a great line up! (Crosses fingers for new torrent downloads as announced by Pat)

Well ToddMan, I suggest using Flip4Mac to watch WMP streams and content in Quicktime, and sometimes it does not like to have the audio so VLC comes in handy sometimes to, http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_download.htm

Yeah there are problems with the latest Democracy player release.

@TODDMAN

Dude your just like me. I'm typing on my new MacbookPro that's not even a week old. Download WMP 9 for mac. It's old but it actually works. Just tell it to open the stream and it works flawlessly. I don't get why VLC won't play it either.

Link to that $200 Nic...
Better be Parallel, over powered, Wireless, wifi, and change channels on my TV

Hi Guys, stupid question but where's the video links? Nick, UK

Ok, I feel pretty stupid, I may have forgotten about that rather large time difference between the uk and the US... ahem.

What is going on with the RSS feed? Its not updating or downloading the last 3 shows.

NIce show guys.....
BUT whats up with the not available tuesday or thursday thing....Its usually wednesday night that my itunes recognizes an update....Im on the website again on wedenesday morning looking for yesterdays pcast, NADA it says 117 but I cant download it anywhere...Maybe Im just a moron.....

Thank you Lloyd, you are spot on.

I guess we will have to accept that Patrick is a dreamer first and a business man fifth.

Lloyd,
Mac and Linux users can have issues playing back WMV content - especially when new versions are released. H.264 can be played on most platforms (although as Patrick said last week, it's fairly CPU intensive) and gives great compression. I'd agree with you that it's a shame XP doesn't come with a built in decoder, however I'd imagine you could play back H.264 in WMP by installing FFDShow http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow

Actually if its H.264 in a .mov container the best bet would be quicktime alternative.

I am using the latest Democracy player on Windows and am subscribed to the H.264 feed just fine....

I have a larger fan than that on my computer. I use a 10 inch IBM mainframe fan on the side of my computer. I can't hear anything that isn't within 3 feet of me but it keeps my PC 13 degrees cooler than when it is off.

Will H.264 play on the IPod? How do you subscribe the IPod feed without using ITunes? I use Juice for my RSS feeds.

Please violently destroy a windows machine for me.
I spent better part of the last three days trying to recover from a client's virus infection.
I wiped his hard drive, reinstalled Windows XP SP2 + 50 or so Windows Update patches, installed MS Office Pro + patches, two hours online chat with Palm Treo tech support...The last Excel patch from Microsoft Update would not install...I tried to manually install the patch... now SVCHOST goes to 99% CPU usage and stays there...Google Newsgroup search shows many other people have the same problem dating back to October..no plausible solutions.
My Thursday will be spent reinstalling WinXPProSP2 (at least an hour), + patches (another hour), Windows Office Pro2003 (30 minutes), importing a huge .PST (450 megabytr Delete item folder) file into Outlook (30 minutes), installing Outlook patches ( another hour at least assuming the Excel patch doesnt fail again), then Oki 4100 driver, network Afico Ricoh printer, copy over My Documents, IE favorites, recreate 4 network drive maps, reinstall insurance agency management software, reinstal real estate management software, reintall flaky Palm Treo software and establish "conduits" to Outlook ( "try removing the battery, try plugging it into another USB port, try a HotSync, try removing the battery and a different USB port, uninstall the Palm software and reinstall, try switching the conduits from Outlook to Palm Desktop...oops...post the error log to the chat...Uninstall and reinstall palm software and point it to palm desktop, if that works reinstall paperless office scanning document management software and then check for any more Microsoft Update patches...oh crap the last MU update hosed the system .....SVCHOST is consuming 99% of system...resources...oh we need antispam, antivirus and antispyware software...
$400 for your services? "I can buy a new computer for $299...see...right here on this Dell ad."
Kilt, sledge hammer, wind up, deep from the soul drive the hammer into the guts of the instrument of the devil.

GLF

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions for QT/MOV viewers, etc. However, I don't view Pod, or other video casts that way.

I move all video files into a share on our home network where a custom MCE 2005 PC serves as a front end host to many files and another MCE 2005 system [the pair aggregate and record all of our TV, Music and Videos]. From the host, we consume all content via MCE extenders - a combination of Xbox 360 and Linksys Extenders.

So for example, DL.TV episodes are usually viewed as we read tech news in our living room and it is played on a 50" Samsung - the quality is not HD, but good enough and nearly as good as SD TV. The audio is fine. I could of course, convert H.264 files, or others and view them the same way, but that would defeat the appliance like environment we have created. A variety of programs harvest and store all content we subscribe to - some custom, some acquired via downloads.

Again, thank you. L.

Hey whats up with the H.264 feed!?!? It still doesnt download 117..

this ep still wont show up on my itunes, its thurs now an i've tried refreshing a few times but it wont update, it worked with the last 3 eps is there something wrong with my itunes or something wrong with the feed?

haha in the very beginning pat didn't give rob a chance to introduce himself he just kept talking u can see it on robs face :)

Not that it matters too much, but in the original post, there's a typo on the names, Crhis.

Yeah, I'm a geek, so what. Want to fight about it? :)