I just gave it another go and went through all the preferences in Real Player. I checked the box called ‘Use specific UDP Ports’ under the Transport tab and it seems to have solved my problems! Strange, since this is the first stream I’ve had a problem with..

Anyway, sorry to bother you all since the problem was on my side!

I would still advise to take downloads under consideration. I’m quite a techy person and I think a mere mortal (i.e. normal person) would have given up by now..

If the archived streams come direct from the Real encoder boxes, I guess it could be difficult to make good quality video downloads from them. Maybe you should think about archiving high resolution video straight from the camera, since alot of these presentations could be important to keep in the future.

Thanks for the help guys!

Are you having problems with the archive files posted after the event or just the live streams? I’ve never had a problem with the archives but sad to say I have experienced the dropped connections during the live streams.

Let us know if things improve for you, and we’ll post here if/when we get alternative formats available.

I have been trying to follow a number of the lectures, but I’m sorry to report that it hasn’t been working well at all.. My realplayer is set up well, I listen to alot of radio streams and have watched other video streams. When I try to connect to the Walker Channel it keeps disconnecting me with the message that the connection to the server has timed out. I get to watch a couple of minutes at a time, but have to keep restarting the stream..

I have had this problem on multiple locations / machines, so I’m guessing it’s either your pipe to Holland that’s a bit congested or that the streams are so popular that the streaming machine isn’t able to keep up..

Have you given any thought to offering these lectures as video podcasts? Or just making them downloadable instead of streamed?

And if bandwidth for downloading is to expensive, what about bittorrent?