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Did anyone else find the WMV video stream of the 2009 Christmas Devotional to be very unstable? I had streamed whole conference sessions last April and October without significant problems. I had streamed several minutes of the test feed without problems. Then, this evening, the stream bombed out over 21 times in the first 15 minutes. With a shell script loop to automatically restart the player, it bombed out 71 times over the next 54 minutes.
I would expect the head-end infrastructure would would have measured how many streams each server can handle and would manage streams per server accordingly, rejecting additional clients or forming an "all circuits busy" waiting list if necessary. I was very disappointed that the stream stability would be so poor. I know of a software engineer with the skills to push an enormous number of video streams per server. To whom should I introduce him?
(Yes, I know there are other ways to watch the devotional. I would love to use the Move player if Move Networks would make the player available for Linux. I would be running the downlink at my local meetinghouse if the building weren't in the middle of a remodel. The stake center would be an option if not for an elders quorum presidency meeting, a 30+ minute drive home, fast Sunday supper, and another 22+ minute drive, all in the 60 minutes between the end of my ward's meeting block and the start of the broadcast.)
I would expect the head-end infrastructure would would have measured how many streams each server can handle and would manage streams per server accordingly, rejecting additional clients or forming an "all circuits busy" waiting list if necessary. I was very disappointed that the stream stability would be so poor. I know of a software engineer with the skills to push an enormous number of video streams per server. To whom should I introduce him?
(Yes, I know there are other ways to watch the devotional. I would love to use the Move player if Move Networks would make the player available for Linux. I would be running the downlink at my local meetinghouse if the building weren't in the middle of a remodel. The stake center would be an option if not for an elders quorum presidency meeting, a 30+ minute drive home, fast Sunday supper, and another 22+ minute drive, all in the 60 minutes between the end of my ward's meeting block and the start of the broadcast.)
