Problems with the iPad and Streaming Video

http://www.beet.tv/2010/04/the-ipad-for-sucks-for-streaming-video-both-conten...


While the iPad may be a marvelous and elegant new kind of computing device, and our show looks very nice on it indeed, the inconsistent WiFi connection and subsequent buffering is insufferable for consuming streaming video.

From our own tests and with conversations with others, we find that WiFi connectivity is simply not stable enough to sustain consistent streaming. For downloaded applications and Quicktime files the connection is not a problem, but for streaming videos it is not good.

This poor buffering can be the case in WiFi networks of speeds as fast 8 MPS, we have found.

We concur with the assessment of these limitations of WiFi connectivity reported by Henry Blodget and Michael Arrington. More complaints have been published in a story on CNN.com today. (Update: BBC has a story up.)

Unfortunately, the iPad's only options to connect to the Web are WiFi and then via AT&T in a forthcoming 3G model.

iPad Video Ad Integration is Three Months Off for Brigthtcove, Blip.tv, others

For content creators and publishers who have labored hard to integrate advertising into online video, there are very limited ways to insert in-stream advertising into clips. Generally speaking, the advertising solution simply doesn't exist at this time.

The device does not support Adobe Flash, which is the primary video publishing medium. For the iPad, ads can technically be inserted, however there is very little way to track and report usage. (Please watch Blip.tv's Mike Hudack for an explanation in our video package.)

Brightcove will roll out advertising support within three months, a company spokesperson told me today.

Blip.tv has come up with a very nice directory page on the iPad. I visited Mike Hudack, co-founder and CEO, today. Blip is using an existing solution for the iPad, which has worked nicely on the iPhone for a number of months.

Unfortunately, Blip won't have a system to insert and track ads for at least three months, Mike says. So, for Beet.TV, which uses Blip and inserts in-stream sponsorship ads in our player, we'll just have to wait to monetize our content on the iPad.

It seems to us that the only big video publisher with ads up on the iPad is ABC, which has a very snazzy Quicktime app. We have a demo in this video clip.

Andy Plesser, Executive Producer

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• iPad
• Apple
• Beet.TV
• streaming video
• iPad problems

[Golighty678]

Ok a video about how videos won't load on iPad. Oxy moronic.

[cwoolfork]

I think he over estimated the timeline for the appearance of ads in HTML5 iPad. It's Feb 2012 and YouTube still does not have ads embedded in their HTML5 videos. And the iPad still has WiFi connections. Jus sayin...

[memaluar]

Looked for a video to fix the problem with my iPad and it didnt load

[Dosflamingos]

My iPad wouldn't load your video...

[1999thomasr]

hello

[gagec106]

Same I watched it on mine. IT kept freezing. I was about to die. Help

[evcoproductions]

I watched this on an iPad :D

[DeadFukFace]

YEAH, THIS FUCKING THING! I WANNA SMASH IT SOMETIMES. PISSES ME OFF SO BAD IT MAKES MY BALLS ITCH! AND THAT PISSES ME OFF TOO! GOD DAMNIT! AND ANOTHER THING THIS MORNING I RAN OUT OF TOILET PAPER AND I HAD TO DRAG MY ASS ON THE RUG LIKE A FUCKING DOG!!! AND THEN WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE SHOWER I FORGOT AND STEPPED IN MY SHIT! THEN I SLIPPED AND FELL IN IT! GOD DAMNIT! FIX THE PROBLEM... thanks.

[MrGaroutte]

THIS MAN HAS THE DEEPEST VOICE IN THE WORLD

[DarkS3phiroth17]

720p is more than enough for such a small screen, plus html5 is the future, even ie9 support it, and thats from MS, flash is going to die soon or later, cuz its not open(you need to pay to use it), and it need alot of reasource compared to html5 to see an HD video.