Wayne D's Blog

When I was in Miami last week I finally got a chance to try out Hulu. I had heard so much about it that I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Unfortunately it wouldn't stream, it would start, then stop, then start again. I would have thought that it was because my EEEPC didn't have enough power but I heard the same report from one of my friends who had also tried it while visiting the United States. She said that ABC.com streamed fine for her. My friend also reported that pausing the Hulu stream, a common technique to allow more video to be buffered didn't work. Is this because of some DRM paranoia?

Today while browsing through Valleywag I cam across an embedded video for Amanda Congden's new project sometimesdaily.com It didn't stream very well either, this time on my Windows XP desktop system so you can't blame Linux this time. It appears that in order to satisfy our requirement for instant gratification video services aren't buffering as much video as they used to before they try to play it. Sessions.aol.ca worked fine when I checked it today so I don't think it's my internet connection. I have embedded the Amanda Congden clip below so you can try it out yourself. It's nice to see that Amanda is back, I had subscribed to her occasional podcast on iTunes but there hasn't been a new one for quite some time.

Introducing Sometimesdaily from Sometimesdaily on Vimeo.

(update May 25, 2008, misspelled Amanda's last name, sorry, fixed now)