MacWorld Keynote

Samwise · Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:47 am Post subject: MacWorld Keynote

Anyone tried to follow the keynote via MacRumorsLive.com?

jakeOSX · Ninja Joined: Aug 12, 2003 Posts: 1373

i did.

annoying and hilarious at the same time.

yoxi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 2:34 am Post subject:

Now available in quicktime - he's trying hard, just not as extrovert.

I see Pages has an outliner now, as well as MathType/Endnote support.

One comment Phil makes made me laugh out loud: "What's a geotag? It's just a big word for longitude & latitude."

MacRat · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:27 am Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 10:23 am Post subject:

Well nya nyeh-nya! Streams were good enough for our grandparents, dammit...

Anyway, some of us live in the sticks and only have 150Kb/s to play with, so streaming = instant gratification.

MacRat · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 11:35 am Post subject:

Samwise · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject:

actually, the sad truth is that I'm just not a podcast kind of guy... can't explain it, except that it's for the same reason I can't do twitter, whatever that is (the reason, not the twitter).

MacRat · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:50 pm Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:15 pm Post subject:

Funny you should mention that - for some reason, somewhere in the last few OS updates the video on my screen got a lot darker. This means I always need to turn up brightness/contrast in order to be able to see the dark scenes. So I try to watch everything in either VLC or QuickTime - because stupid iTunes doesn't have video adjustment (brightness, colour, contrast) and the others do. But some things you just have to watch in iTunes - rented films, for example, because of DRM.

Seriously, though - I've got no need to see Phil in HDTV - it's not like he's on location in the Himalayas or somewhere worth spending the bandwidth on, I just wanted to hear what he said and see what he was showing, and I wanted it on the spur of the moment once I found the link, so I did it that way.

Oh, and the stream was neither blocky nor stuttering - it only does that when you try to watch the keynote within the first couple of hours it's been posted, along with the millions of other fanbois/gals Smile

Samwise · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:18 pm Post subject:

Thank goodness - I've been thinking it was just me. Are you on a macbook pro too? I wonder if it's a firmware thing...

Samwise · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject:

I just noticed this on an Intel iMac, but I assume it's been the same on my MBP as well.

I used to backup my DVDs to my hard drive using Apple's H.264 encoder, but recently switched to using x264Encoder instead. At that point, I noticed my videos looked darker than those produced with Apple's encoder, but by tweaking the settings I was able to make them clearer again.

However, today I just did a comparison between my old x264 settings and Apple's encoder, and noticed that videos encoded with Apple's encoder were just as dark as those encoded with x264.

MacRat · Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:17 pm Post subject:

yoxi · Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2009 2:15 am Post subject:

That's right.

[edit] sorry, that was a bit sarky - it's the headcold talking. The main reason I never got into podcasts was because it was one of the things that the charity I used to work for did, and so it just felt like work.