QuickTime is driving me MAD!

[jamescwarren]

I am trying to watch WWDC 2006 in QuickTime 7 (with latest updates) on Mac OS 10.4.7 and all I keep getting is maybe about 4 minutes of stuttering video and then "Timed out"!!! It is sooo annoying me! I know there is nothing wrong with my internet connection cos' everything else works fine! Anyone else have this problem?

 

[iMeowbot]

Yes. QuickTime streaming stinks.

I was rather amused when the status bar at the bottom of the QT window even said "buffering" at some points.

 

[PatrickF]

I don't even get to the point where it starts to buffer. Just sits there with "requested data" most of the time and gives up in various ways (such as just saying "-5408").

I'm guessing the servers are just getting hammered.

 

[Chundles]

The servers get absolutely hammered for about a day or so after a Keynote.

You should get totally smooth video in a couple of days, you could also set your connection speed to something slower in Quicktime's System Preferences - you'll get a smaller video screen size but it's a smaller filesize too so it doesn't strain the servers so much.

 

[PatrickF]

I fixed mine by setting the transport setup to Automatic in the Advanced tab of the QuickTime preferences pane. Totally forgot I changed all that months ago to try to fix some FrontRow problems.