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http://p.events-delivery.apple.com.edgesuite.net/13oygadvoyi... for VLC

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This manages to keep crashing VLC for me. Heh.

Same here - anybody have a fix?

Same here (and on mobile too). Seems like mirrors on Ustream are the best option e.g. http://www.ustream.tv/ltktv

Yeah, I think so. I've had a look through the other feeds on ustream, and haven't found one good quality as that one but that doesn't have annoying commentators talking over the presenter. Ah well...

Can you give a link to a low quality one? My problem is I have low speed connection.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wwdc-2013-live was one, but I've no idea if it'll be better for slow connections than http://www.ustream.tv/ltktv

That link is choppy and looks crap but it is a lot better than crashing VLC every 5 fucking minutes. Thanks A TON! I expect better from apple.

I've found a bit of a workaround if VLC is crashing, which seems to fix the problem for me.

1. Open VLC, and open the stream as usual

2. Let the stream load - it'll load in lower quality first

3. Before it automatically transitions to the higher quality stream, go to Video --> Video Track --> Disable. The video will now be disabled.

4. Wait for a bit. Go to Video --> Video Track --> Track 1. The video will now be streamed in its highest quality mode without crashing.

This worked for me, hope it works for others!

It starts off on low quality, tries to go to higher quality, then buffers and stops stream. duh.

Install and use mplayer to play the stream. I had the crashing issue with VLC but mplayer works perfectly.

This is working great on an Android FWIW.

thanks, works perfectly.

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