Comments on: MySpace Hosts Fox Television Programming http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/ All your digital media goodness. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:26:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Cygnl7 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-11398 Cygnl7 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:50:30 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/#comment-11398 I think you've missed the point of the player Fox is using. Think about it from the broadcaster's point of view and then read http://willprice.blogspot.com/2006/11/move-networks.html I think you’ve missed the point of the player Fox is using. Think about it from the broadcaster’s point of view and then read http://willprice.blogspot.com/2006/11/move-networks.html

]]> By: davis freeberg http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-7706 davis freeberg Fri, 06 Oct 2006 04:36:00 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/#comment-7706 I've found that MySpace is a good place to keep tabs on future exes as well ;) I’ve found that MySpace is a good place to keep tabs on future exes as well ;)

]]> By: Jon http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-7604 Jon Wed, 04 Oct 2006 17:26:09 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/#comment-7604 Actually, I originally understood you to mean copy protection and force-fed inline advertisements. But you make a valid point... Fox's current proprietary player does indeed obscure their video content a bit more than if they used a mainstream player like WMP or Flash. After digging around further, it looks to me like the Fox video content on MySpace is actually powered by Move Networks "Quantum" Technology... and it is delivered over LimeLight's content delivery network - not Akamai's. The TV episodes aren't streamed at all - the player downloads chunks of the video by issuing sequential, byte range specific HTTP GET requests for what look like proprietary Move Networks .qss files. It looks like they slice a single TV episode up into lots of these .qss files, which average around 150K per file. This makes sense, as the end result is that the video is much more cacheable across LimeLight's network - and much more difficult to grab in-flight in hopes of reassembly offline. The TeleCrunch article claims that the episodes are available on the web in "high definition." But the links on MySpace certainly do NOT playback at 1920x1080 or 1280x720. Think it's just sloppy usage of the phrase "high definition," or am I missing something? Actually, I originally understood you to mean copy protection and force-fed inline advertisements.

But you make a valid point… Fox’s current proprietary player does indeed obscure their video content a bit more than if they used a mainstream player like WMP or Flash. After digging around further, it looks to me like the Fox video content on MySpace is actually powered by Move Networks “Quantum” Technology… and it is delivered over LimeLight’s content delivery network – not Akamai’s.

The TV episodes aren’t streamed at all – the player downloads chunks of the video by issuing sequential, byte range specific HTTP GET requests for what look like proprietary Move Networks .qss files. It looks like they slice a single TV episode up into lots of these .qss files, which average around 150K per file. This makes sense, as the end result is that the video is much more cacheable across LimeLight’s network – and much more difficult to grab in-flight in hopes of reassembly offline.

The TeleCrunch article claims that the episodes are available on the web in “high definition.” But the links on MySpace certainly do NOT playback at 1920×1080 or 1280×720. Think it’s just sloppy usage of the phrase “high definition,” or am I missing something?

]]> By: Dave Zatz http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-7603 Dave Zatz Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:00:56 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/#comment-7603 I meant 'control' as in copy protection, not our ability to manipulate the video - I just updated the post to reflect that. I meant ‘control’ as in copy protection, not our ability to manipulate the video – I just updated the post to reflect that.

]]> By: Jon http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-7602 Jon Wed, 04 Oct 2006 14:50:10 +0000 http://www.zatznotfunny.com/2006-10/myspace-hosts-fox-television-programming/#comment-7602 Both Fox and MySpace already use Akamai to deliver their digital content, and Akamai has all kinds of ways to let their customers control their streaming media. Fear not, those ads will continue to be force fed. :) Both Fox and MySpace already use Akamai to deliver their digital content, and Akamai has all kinds of ways to let their customers control their streaming media. Fear not, those ads will continue to be force fed. :)

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