ehlow
Senior Member
Sorry but I feel like I have to rant about something.
Toronto or Canadian newspapers, Toronto news TV networks etc, all have terrible video streaming & outdated technology.
Examples: Globe & Mail, CBC news, Toronto Star, CP 24.
Live streaming the mayoral debates is a terrible experience. You get errors half the time, I've had it take down Flash, choppiness, bad quality. Once live streaming has finished, it takes several hours before they are able to upload a video for those who missed it.
Ex. I see that Globe & Mail tweeted a video. I go to their website to watch the video. After the ad plays, the flash video player gives an error message instead of playing the damn video.
The thing is: this problem has already been solved. Use Youtube. It supports live streaming and has perfected video streaming. None of the above problems exist when either live streaming or watching a youtube video. There's no choppiness or random loss of quality, you can pause or rewind streaming video, and most of all: the basic functionality works. You can play a video. You can move back and forth in the video without the whole thing crashing. Performance is good.
If these media companies want to use their own in-house solutions, then at least make sure basic functionality works on all browsers & platforms.
Also please hire some decent tech people. A lot of newspaper or news websites are not good and they can do much more with the web as a platform than the mediocre job they are currently doing, which is simply taking newspaper articles and fitting them into the existing web template.
Look at what companies who understand web technology are doing with their websites & articles, then read any Toronto based newspaper article online to see what I mean.
Toronto or Canadian newspapers, Toronto news TV networks etc, all have terrible video streaming & outdated technology.
Examples: Globe & Mail, CBC news, Toronto Star, CP 24.
Live streaming the mayoral debates is a terrible experience. You get errors half the time, I've had it take down Flash, choppiness, bad quality. Once live streaming has finished, it takes several hours before they are able to upload a video for those who missed it.
Ex. I see that Globe & Mail tweeted a video. I go to their website to watch the video. After the ad plays, the flash video player gives an error message instead of playing the damn video.
The thing is: this problem has already been solved. Use Youtube. It supports live streaming and has perfected video streaming. None of the above problems exist when either live streaming or watching a youtube video. There's no choppiness or random loss of quality, you can pause or rewind streaming video, and most of all: the basic functionality works. You can play a video. You can move back and forth in the video without the whole thing crashing. Performance is good.
If these media companies want to use their own in-house solutions, then at least make sure basic functionality works on all browsers & platforms.
Also please hire some decent tech people. A lot of newspaper or news websites are not good and they can do much more with the web as a platform than the mediocre job they are currently doing, which is simply taking newspaper articles and fitting them into the existing web template.
Look at what companies who understand web technology are doing with their websites & articles, then read any Toronto based newspaper article online to see what I mean.
