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Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?

The MSDN Webcasts Weblog is online. Since I am doing nothing but whiney posts this week, then I’d like to ask: Why can’t we download the webcasts for offline viewing?

Bill has me salivating over the Personal Media Center. I started to imagine myself downloading MSDN TV, Channel 9 videos, and TechEd webcasts to watch at my leisure, away from the desktop. There are just two problems with this dream:  

  1. The Personal Media Center isn’t for sale as yet.
  2. The Microsoft webcasts do not download as a file I can save, they only stream.

[Updated with MSDN Webcasts new URL].

Print | posted @ Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:24 AM

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Gravatar # re: Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?
by Bill at 7/7/2004 12:43 AM
Good point. I'm actually doing a Web Cast on ADO.NET on Aug 11, 2004 and I'm nervous - but if it goes well (crossing my fingers) it'd be cool to have the file to distribute. You definitely have a point here.
  
Gravatar # re: Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?
by Georgeo Pulikkathara at 7/7/2004 12:56 AM
It's actually something we're looking to make available in the next release of MSO Live Meeting Services. As a wmv file download the file is around 6--100 MB in size for webcasts with application sharing. We're looking at the new windows media encoder to get the file size down to 10-20 MB insize. hopefully we will be able to start making downloads available again shortly near the end of the year if all goes well.
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Gravatar # re: Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?
by Scott Allen at 7/7/2004 8:07 AM
Bill: best of luck with the webcast. I'll keep an eye out.
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<br>Georgeo: I'm glad to hear things are moving in that direction!
  
Gravatar # re: Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?
by Robert Scoble at 7/8/2004 8:56 AM
If I got my act together the Channel9 videos would be downloadable too. It requires work due to the infrastructure and I'm way behind.
  
Gravatar # re: Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?
by Nick Head at 7/8/2004 9:14 AM
Just found this link this afternoon
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<br>How to download Microsoft Webcasts:
<br>http://blogs.msdn.com/msdnwebcasts/archive/2004/07/08/175767.aspx
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<br>How timely :)
  
Gravatar # re: Why Do Microsoft Webcasts Have To Stream?
by John at 7/8/2004 5:54 PM
I found this the other day:
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<br>http://sdp.ppona.com/zips/SDP2_0_0.zip
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<br>(I wanted a copy of the 'Speculative Retrospective' ;)
  

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