LDSTech Talk 2009 Now Available

The 2009 LDSTech Talk, held on September 17, is now available for streaming in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Click on the link to begin a stream.

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LDSTech Talk 2009

English

• Windows users
• Mac users
• Audio only

Portuguese

• Windows users
• Mac users
• Audio only

Spanish

• Windows users
• Mac users
• Audio only

LDSTech Talk 2008

• Windows users
• Mac users
• Audio only

When I attempt to download the English 2009 files, each is only 183 bytes. Attempts to download or view the files in Ref1 of the files get what appears to be the same 183 byte file. Attempts to access the URL in the Ref2 lines yield a blank browser window.

rmrichesjr wrote:When I attempt to download the English 2009 files, each is only 183 bytes. Attempts to download or view the files in Ref1 of the files get what appears to be the same 183 byte file. Attempts to access the URL in the Ref2 lines yield a blank browser window.

Apparently they are streams and not downloads?

mkmurray wrote:Apparently they are streams and not downloads?

That appeared to be the case when I watched the English stream earlier today.

I was able to download it earlier. Maybe it was because I am on the network.

In addition, this content had to be removed. Please accept my apologies first for the delay and second for the removal. I mistakenly believed that the downloads were approved when in actuality they need one more stamp of approval.

I will put them back up the minute they are ready.

Alright. This is the minute, please stream and enjoy! (See the first post in this thread)

English files still won't download or play for me.

Each of the files contains a two-entry play list. With wget, the first entry in each file downloads the same content as the original file. The second entry in each file is a private 10.*.*.* IP address.

Attempting to play them with mplayer, each produces an error message that the player could not load a Win32 DLL, avisynth.dll.

It would be helpful if the files/streams could be made available in a multi-platform format, especially since the original broadcast was in a format that is limited in which OSes can view it.

rmrichesjr wrote:English files still won't download or play for me.

I understand and agree with your request for broader platform support.

But I do need to mention that the videos do view just fine on Windows, lest anyone think they didn't work at all.

Alan_Brown wrote:I understand and agree with your request for broader platform support.

But I do need to mention that the videos do view just fine on Windows, lest anyone think they didn't work at all.

The files are streaming fine here too.

Request for "broader platform support" seems a generalised statement.

The files are available as wmv and mp4 streams which seems to be consistent with the format the church support for conference downloads.

I must admit I assumed mp4 files can be played on both Windows, Linux and Mac with the download of a player.

There is something different between the conference archives and the Tech Talk. Each URL in the conference archives saves a media file of the indicated type (.mp3, .mp4, or .wmv) that plays directly. Each of the English links for the 2009 Tech Talk saves a text file 183 bytes in size. The reference URLs have a protocol of HTTP and .asf suffix. I have dealt successfully with .asf files before, but there appears to be something odd here. Running mplayer on those files yields an error message that avisynth.dll could not be loaded. Yesterday, everything I had tried yielded either the 183-byte text file or the avisynth.dll error message. (I'm on Linux, and I never encounter an error message about avisynth.dll with content from other sources.)

For audio only, as of this morning, running mplayer on the first reference URL (.asf suffix) works. I'm sure I had tried that, but perhaps that is one angle I had not tried. Anyway, whether I had just not tried that angle, or whether something had been fixed, thank you for making this available.

The video formats still fail. Running mplayer on the first reference URL for MP4 yields the following:

Server returned 404:Not Found

Running mplayer on the first reference URL for WMV yields an steady stream of the following, as if it's downloading the 183 bytes of text, picking the first reference URL, using that URL to download the 183 bytes of text, etc.:

Playing http://stream.lds.org/ICS/Tech%20Talk/T ... WMExt=.asf.
Resolving stream.lds.org for AF_INET...
Connecting to server stream.lds.org[216.49.176.71]: 80...
Cache size set to 320 KBytes

Few days ago I upgrade my Ubuntu to 9.1.0
Then I try to watch TechTalk with Rhythmbox and no chance to do it.
After reading many forums, and many try, on it I realize that is a Gstream bug (officialy granted).
So I decide to install Totem reader and ... I can see video into Firefox (3.5.5) tab or directly with Totem.
Godd audio but poor video. It's so unfocused that I guess presentation's text.
Is this a choice to reduce bandwidth?
By the way, I looked at WMV file!

marianomarini_vi wrote:Godd audio but poor video. It's so unfocused that I guess presentation's text.
Is this a choice to reduce bandwidth?
By the way, I looked at WMV file!

You aren't alone on this, it's the same for me. I gave up trying to watch it as it was too blurry for me to read anything.

Because the video is so blurry, is there any chance
the powerpoint presentations used will be released ?

- Atticus

I've talked to AV and there probably isn't much that we can do to improve the quality. This is because it was recorded to dvd and since there was some editing that had to be done from the original before it could be posted the quality was reduced. If there is an improved version I'll post it as soon as possible.

I'll also have to look into the possibility of posting the slides. I'm not sure if that will pass review.

My question was only for tech purpose. Curious to know if it was a problem of my reader.
Now my curiosity is satisfy. Thanks.

for those having trouble on linux, copy the link for the audio and open vlc, then in vlc go to media -> open network stream.

On the address input field paste in the audio link from the website.

I cannot see the techtalk unfortunately on my Mac OS 10.6 OS (intel) using Safari 4.0.4.
I tried renaming the file to .mp4 (instead of .asf) and it says the file is invalid type.
I Installed Silverlight, and Flip4Mac and tried viewing it again both to no avail giving the same message.
Also the mp3 audio doesn't kick off for me in iTunes as well.

Has anyone had success streaming the mac version? It seems some people can, but most can't. It's a problem AV is working on. However, using the flip for mac using the windows stream should work.