Why role their own live streaming tech when Livestream/Ustream seem to do a pretty good job? This stream is stuttering for me.. cutting out completely every minute or so.
We don't roll our own, we use a third party. Regardless, we're sorry for the issues everyone is having! Hopefully, it'll all get ironed out for everyone.
Would be nice if they had some kind of chatroom next to the stream as well. It's more enjoyable watching these kind of things when you can discuss in real time the topics being talked about on the stream.
Yes, we'll put them on YouTube like the other Startup Schools. It does take awhile for us to transcribe the talks for closed captions, so that might take a week. but the videos will hopefully be up by Monday.
Since the live stream is sadly not working for most people, we downweighted this post. Somebody let me know if it starts working again! In the meantime, an HN user has been keeping live notes at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8442712.
Startup School live video feeds have a long tradition of being horrible, not necessarily because streaming video doesn't work, but more often because Hundreds of Nerds With Wireless Devices means Bad Things for every wireless network within 1000 feet of the conference.
When we did them on JTV, we had more than enough viewing capacity to handle the stream, but the uplink was always horrible, even when we had a "dedicated" network. When you have that many "sophisticated" users (i.e. bandwidth hogs) in one space, you're pretty much going to saturate any upstream bandwidth that hasn't been carefully provisioned for the event.
It seems to be working now. For those who are on linux/chrome, use the 'user agent switcher' and change it to either IE9 or Firefox15, it will then switch it to flash player.
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http://icv-live8.icvdm.cshls.lldns.net/icvdm/icv-live8/icv-l...
Says "Error loading stream: Could not connect to server" m3u8 link for vlc doesn't work for me either :(
Just in case someone else is using PB.
By the way, it's working now. Just have to keep refreshing.
When we did them on JTV, we had more than enough viewing capacity to handle the stream, but the uplink was always horrible, even when we had a "dedicated" network. When you have that many "sophisticated" users (i.e. bandwidth hogs) in one space, you're pretty much going to saturate any upstream bandwidth that hasn't been carefully provisioned for the event.