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		aw3c2 on Dec 16, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Knuth's 15th Annual Christmas Tree Lecture [video] Can anyone find a working link to the actual video file? I tried http://proedvid.stanford.edu/knuth/091208/091208-knuth-500.w... with mplayer but it tries again and again without ever starting. Inside seem to be more links. Curl has no luck either.

ovi256 on Dec 16, 2009 | [–]

The .asx link works with Firefox or VLC, but not with Safari 4 on Snow Leopard. I guess it's a codec problem.

Update : it stopped after a few mins ... server overload as others guessed.

chaosmachine on Dec 16, 2009 | [–]

The provided link worked, but died after about 5 minutes. The server is probably overwhelmed.

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