This weekend’s general conference will feature a new online video player using the super fantastic Move Networks streaming technologyz. The live video will be available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and American Sign Language. The quality of the video is quite amazing. The better your connection, the sharper the picture. (Try the fullscreen.) And it is crazy fast.
Each talk, musical number, prayer and conducting will be “clipped” for easy navigation. You can watch it live beginning tomorrow at 10:00 am MST (12:00 pm EST).
Rob Jex and Brian Hansbrow led product management of the online General Conference. Chris Mayfield, Wayne Pullman and I designed the new player. Darin Warren developed the flash player. Brent Lewis, Tyler Dalton, Travis Foxley, Mindie Sorenson, Chris Jones, Chris Twitty, Vicki Bird, Bill Bush and many others who helped put it on the site with many hours of testing (I’m sure I missed others).
And lastly, thank you to the great people of Move Networks who helped us provide this great service. Wish us luck! (We hope we can handle all of the load this weekend.)
And please give us your feedback. Thank you!
18 comments
didn’t Move do the abc.com video player too?
fantastic quality video. the design is ok.
comment by Jason Lynes 26 minutes later
Yes, abc.com video player is powered by Move Networks.
I’m glad you really like the design, Jason :)
comment by Gilbert Lee 28 minutes later
Very nice and the quality of the video is excellent!
comment by Ben 10 hours later
I’m sorry I commented on the wrong post. The player is awsome! Will it be available for iPhone?
comment by dustin 12 hours later
Design is clean and easy to navigate. The video quality is incredible. I cannot believe the full screen mode – it’s so clean! How can you stream such clean video so quickly? You guys are amazing.
comment by Joseph 13 hours later
Nice job Gilbert & team. I like the simplicity of the design and the transition to full screen is hot.
Good job!
comment by Blake M. Scarbrough 16 hours later
Bravo, This is an excellent streaming codec, very impressed. As an AV consultant watching conference while in the mist of working on a Saturday, was very enjoyable. Very little noise, clear, crisp, and at 912 kbps. Good Job.
comment by Adrian Boyd 16 hours later
From the Church CIO Joel Dehlin: “Peak of over 50,000 simultaneous online connections to General Conference via LDS.ORG or BYUTV during this morning’s session.”
comment by Gilbert Lee 16 hours later
like the new player…
unfortunately you missed a huge opportunity to embed/share/email the individual videos. I would love to be able to just share Elder Hollands talk… you didn’t make that easy. we need to learn that we need to make this stuff work with what people use already… youtube, facebook, vimeo, etc.
we are missing opportunities to share the gospel. I hope this feature is coming soon.
comment by rg one day later
@rg we definitely wanted to do that. we are trying to be more open with the Church’s content so watch out for that as we evolve these types of things.
comment by Gilbert Lee one day later
thanks gilbert. i assumed that was the case… i love where you guys are heading with this stuff! keep up the great work!
comment by rg about a day later
Very nice work guys. It’s a huge improvement to the video players used in the past. I look forward to future advancements of this player.
comment by Joshua Giblette about a day later
I live on the other side of the world (South Africa), so being able to watch conference live, on a 384kbs connection, was a real privilege! Thanks!
It must be an honour to create things that actually benefit the lives of millions people around the world.
Agreed on previous comments about the design; simple, clean, and professional. Would’ve been great to have a more prominent link on lds.org though.
comment by Ryan Botha 2 days later
Woot! I love it. Good jorb!
comment by Jonathan 2 days later
I was happiest about the technical implications. I’ve spent numerous conferences having the video plugin not work because I was using Vista, or FF3, or both. I always had to fake out the browser so it would play properly.
Thanks for making it as simple as using a flash player.
comment by Jamis 2 days later
To sum it up, I would rate this design less “playaah” and more “player” because you skipped the bling. Love the simplicity and the flat colors.
comment by Mark McClellan 6 days later
The quality was huge – it looked gorgeous on my 17”. The navigation across the bottom was awesome and the whole internet conference experience was 100% better than 6 months ago because of your changes. Thank you!
comment by Amy Noorda 9 days later
Travis Foxley was mentioned as one of the personnel testing the site and making it ready for use. I have seen some other things he has done and been amazed by them all. The quality of this feature is oustanding.
comment by Gilbert Newman 265 days later
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