Now, Milpitas residents and customers can view Live Streaming Video of the City Council and Planning Commission meetings on the internet through our Live Webcast of Milpitas Cable Channel 15!

Live webcasting of Channel 15 will be available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, anywhere in the world!

In addition to the regular webcasting of the City Council and Planning Commission Meetings, each session is recorded and indexed for replay at any time.

The minimum system requirements for watching the live and on-demand video are list below:

System Information
To view and hear live webcasts or archived video, your computer must have a sound card, a minimum 56 Kbs Internet connection, and Windows Media Player version 9 or higher. If you have a Macintosh, be sure that you are running Mac OS 8.1 or later, have a PowerPC 603e 180MHz or better with 32MB RAM, virtual memory turned on, and 10MB of free disk space.

Player Information
In order to view the video streams you must have a Windows Media Player version 9 or higher. In most cases, if you do not have the software already installed, you will be automatically directed to the download page. For Netscape users, the plugin version of the player can be found under 'Windows Media Player Plug-In for Netscape' on the download page.

To check what version of Media Player is embedded with your browser.  On the Media window, right click on the player, and then click on "About".  You must have a Windows Media Player version 9 or higher.  Please note that the  embedded version and the installed version of Windows Media Player installed on your OS (computer) might be different.  If so, click here and install the latest version.

Browser Information
Please be sure that you are using Internet Explorer 5.0 or Netscape 4.7 or better browser.

Connection Information
As with all Internet-based video, the more bandwidth available to you the better. The video on our site is configured to stream at various speeds from 20kbps (audio-only) up to 350kbps. Our servers will automatically detect your connection speed and send the highest quality stream possible. If you are trying to view the webcast with a dial-up connection, you will find the best performance is achieved by manually selecting an audio-only version of the webcast.