MadStream -- FRC Webcast Portal

[Eugene Fang]

Hey everyone!

Last week, we relaunched the MadStream FRC Webcast Portal (http://madstream.team1323.com), which allows you to watch multiple webcasts, view scores, and chat all in one place.

Notable features include:
-Clean simple layout
-Ability to choose from different preset layouts
-Ability to drag and drop to rearrange videos
-Score ticker
-Chat

We got over 5000 visitors last weekend, and you guys provided some great feedback and suggestions. Thanks so much! We've implemented many of your ideas, and are ready to rumble in week 2! We will continue to update the webcast list as more become live.

Remember to like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MadStream)!

[alectronic]

Thanks for making some of those changes, this will be a great resource for this year and the future. I especially appreciate the regional code!

[Andrew Lawrence]

Will the week 3 webcasts be shown on Madstream?

[Eugene Fang]

Will the week 3 webcasts be shown on Madstream?

Yep, as soon as people start sharing the links, I'll put them up!

[Joohoo]

It gitty anticipation of this weeks regionals I found some links for you guys

Virginia
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/va_stream.php

Bayou
http://coderedrobotics.com/webcast/Bayou-Regional/

Detroit
http://coderedrobotics.com/webcast/Detroit-FIRST-Robotics-District-Competition/

West MI
http://coderedrobotics.com/webcast/West-Michigan-FIRST-Robotics-District-Competition/

Boiler Maker
mms://video1.itap.purdue.edu/first

[Eugene Fang]

It gitty anticipation of this weeks regionals I found some links for you guys

Virginia
http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/va_stream.php

Bayou
http://coderedrobotics.com/webcast/Bayou-Regional/

Detroit
http://coderedrobotics.com/webcast/Detroit-FIRST-Robotics-District-Competition/

West MI
http://coderedrobotics.com/webcast/West-Michigan-FIRST-Robotics-District-Competition/

Boiler Maker
mms://video1.itap.purdue.edu/first

Thanks! Will get them up soon.

Edit: Updated. Hopefully all the links work. Let me know if they don't.

[Joohoo]

right now i don't think virginia is working properly but it might just not be broadcasting at the moment.

here is the link to LA
http://bhrobotics.com/

[MrForbes]

here is the link to LA
http://bhrobotics.com/

Lovely....crashed my computer....

[Joohoo]

Lovely....crashed my computer....
Sorry Its working for me right now I got that link from here
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1144459&postcount=22

[intrepidEsquire]

Has anyone found the Peachtree webcast?

[msimon785]

MorTorq 1515 is hosting the Los Angeles Regional (This weekend) webcast at http://bhrobotics.com/

We would love to be on MadStream.

[Eugene Fang]

MorTorq 1515 is hosting the Los Angeles Regional (This weekend) webcast at http://bhrobotics.com/

We would love to be on MadStream.

Most definitely. I'll update the stream list in a couple of hours.

[Joohoo]

Peachtree has a stream up here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/peachtree-regional-frc

[MrForbes]

Alternate webcast for Utah, it appears to be working?

http://www.justin.tv/teamtators#/w/2768818624

[Eugene Fang]

Utah and Peachtree have been updated. Sorry for being on west coast time. =)

[Mr. Lim]

QC live at: http://www.justin.tv/flashsthenri?utm_campaign=live_embed_click&utm_source=watchfirstnow.com

[Gaurav27]

QC live at: http://www.justin.tv/flashsthenri?utm_campaign=live_embed_click&utm_source=watchfirstnow.com

Thanks! I was looking all over for the Festival de Robotique FRC a Montreal Regional webcast!

[Eugene Fang]

QC live at: http://www.justin.tv/flashsthenri?utm_campaign=live_embed_click&utm_source=watchfirstnow.com

Added to MadStream. Thanks.

[Bill_B]

boilmaker [sic] on madstream list Isn't the "er" missing?

[Bill_B]

learning how to use this multi screen setup - really could do without the background noise that is commonly called music. adds nothing to the webcast experience.

[bduddy]

A couple of the webcasts are showing justin.tv embedding errors.

[Eugene Fang]

boilmaker [sic] on madstream list Isn't the "er" missing?

Haha oops. Fixed. Which feeds are having issues?

[thefro526]

Haha oops. Fixed. Which feeds are having issues?

As of right now, LA, SAC, MTL and DT are working for me. Bayou and BMR are not, I haven't tried anything else.

By the way Eugene, thanks for keeping up with this even while your team is competing!

[Eugene Fang]

As of right now, LA, SAC, MTL and DT are working for me. Bayou and BMR are not, I haven't tried anything else.

By the way Eugene, thanks for keeping up with this even while your team is competing!

Hmm Boilermaker seems to work for me... Bayou isn't working on CodeRed is it?

[thefro526]

Hmm Boilermaker seems to work for me... Bayou isn't working on CodeRed is it?

Bayou seems to be working on both Code Red and MadStream now. Weird.

[Basel A]

Hmm Boilermaker seems to work for me... Bayou isn't working on CodeRed is it?

Post in the Boilermaker Regional thread:

I have it working on Madstream (madstream.team1323.com) -- the stream is coming through Microsoft Silverlight so that might be the problem if you don't have it or the newest version.

On Madstream, I get audio but no video for Boilermaker. Only have Silverlight 4 (not updated to 5). Stream entirely works via Windows Media Player.

[Eugene Fang]

On Madstream, I get audio but no video for Boilermaker. Only have Silverlight 4 (not updated to 5). Stream entirely works via Windows Media Player.

I have Silverlight 4 and it has sound. Silverlight and Windows Media are both pretty bad at compatibility, but we decided that Silverlight reaches a bigger audience. I'll reevaluate this choice if you guys think WM is better.

[Basel A]

I have Silverlight 4 and it has sound. Silverlight and Windows Media are both pretty bad at compatibility, but we decided that Silverlight reaches a bigger audience. I'll reevaluate this choice if you guys think WM is better.

I would guess that more people are able to use a WMP stream, but that isn't something I'd presume to know. I don't know what the issue is here. I'd try updating to Silverlight 5, but I'm on a university computer (maybe that's the problem :P ).

[bduddy]

Haha oops. Fixed. Which feeds are having issues?Quebec and Utah are both giving me justin.tv embedding errors.

[Eugene Fang]

Quebec and Utah are both giving me justin.tv embedding errors.

That's weird. What browser? Try clearing cache?

[bduddy]

That's weird. What browser? Try clearing cache?They're working now.

[Hallry]

NASA will be webcasting the NYC Regional, which will be streamed on team1676.com on Saturday, March 17th and Sunday, March 18th.

[bduddy]

The Boilermaker stream is extremely small no matter what size window I put it in.

[jspatz1]

St. Louis webcast ===> http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/livestream/stlouis.php

[KevinGoneNuts]

Any news on when the Sacramento Regional Match Videos will be on TBA or elsewhere?

[kevincrispie]

Any news on when the Sacramento Regional Match Videos will be on TBA or elsewhere?

We have some match videos on Youtube here (http://www.youtube.com/user/remraz?feature=watch)
Its a bit 971 centered, but you might find some of your team and others.

The most recent videos are all Sacramento/Davis.

The 971 Kevin

[KevinGoneNuts]

We have some match videos on Youtube here (http://www.youtube.com/user/remraz?feature=watch)
Its a bit 971 centered, but you might find some of your team and others.

The most recent videos are all Sacramento/Davis.

The 971 Kevin

Thanks! We were against you in one match so it helps a bit. Congratulations on the win though! We'll be seeing you in St. Louis!

Team 4159 Kevin

[kevincrispie]

Thanks! We were against you in one match so it helps a bit. Congratulations on the win though! We'll be seeing you in St. Louis!

Team 4159 Kevin

Thank you. Congrats on your Rookie All Star Award. See you at champs!

[KevinGoneNuts]

Thank you. Congrats on your Rookie All Star Award. See you at champs!

Thanks! let's just hope we're in the same division!

[Eugene Fang]

MadStream has been updated with several week 4 events! Please let us know if you have the links to events not yet on our site.

We've also added new features, including support for touch screen devices that have Flash!

Keep the feedback coming. Thanks!

[kmehta]

Any news on when the Sacramento Regional Match Videos will be on TBA or elsewhere?

Right now you can watch them here (http://justin.tv/firstteam604), and we are working to get them up on TBA by next week.

[artdutra04]

MadStream has been updated with several week 4 events! Please let us know if you have the links to events not yet on our site.

We've also added new features, including support for touch screen devices that have Flash!

Keep the feedback coming. Thanks!Can you add the Midwest Regional? Here's the link:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-midwest-regional

Thanks!

[basicxman]

Can you add the Midwest Regional? Here's the link:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-midwest-regional

Added on Watch FIRST Now (http://watchfirstnow.com)!

[Eugene Fang]

Can you add the Midwest Regional? Here's the link:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-midwest-regional

Thanks!

Thanks, done!

[Akash Rastogi]

Thanks for your work on a superior viewing site Eugene!

Here's the link for Palmetto http://ece.citadel.edu/robotics/

Keep up the great work

[thefro526]

I Don't Always Watch Multiple Webcasts - But when I do, I prefer Madstream.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/528805_10150600298902693_601157692_9473981_2024980 474_n.jpg

Watching Boston, MidBest, Ohio and Waterloo. Life is great.

Eugene, how hard would it be to add the ability to full screen any cast within the browser window? I can't really fullscreen to the size of my monitors all the time but would like to make the portal bigger...

[Eugene Fang]

I Don't Always Watch Multiple Webcasts - But when I do, I prefer Madstream.

Watching Boston, MidBest, Ohio and Waterloo. Life is great.

Eugene, how hard would it be to add the ability to full screen any cast within the browser window? I can't really fullscreen to the size of my monitors all the time but would like to make the portal bigger...

I'm glad you're enjoying it. (:

I'll look into that feature. You do know about "single view," right?

[Chris Fultz]

I am able to get the split screens and menus but there is no video feed. The scores are showing on the bottom

[thefro526]

I'm glad you're enjoying it. (:

I'll look into that feature. You do know about "single view," right?

I do, but then I have to have 4 different windows/tabs open and I'm lazy. I like having 4 or 6 windows open then full screening for a good match at a certain event...

[Eugene Fang]

I am able to get the split screens and menus but there is no video feed. The scores are showing on the bottom

Does each split screen say "Drag and drop an event from the 'Events' menu to assign it to this screen. Please press F11 for fullscreen experience."? Or does that disappear?

[Chris Fultz]

It just shows an x
I am able to split to 4 screens and drag

Is there another app I need to download.

[Eugene Fang]

It just shows an x
I am able to split to 4 screens and drag

Is there another app I need to download.

Can you watch directly on Ustream? For example: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/first-robotics-competition-2011-colorado-regional

You have Flash, right?

[Eugene Fang]

Update:

- Event standings have now been integrated into the MadStream experience.

- We've also added direct links to MadStream to make sharing easier! This will allow you to link to MadStream with a webcast preloaded in one of the screens. Just add "/?[event code]" to the end of the URL. For example, if you want to share the Silicon Valley Regional [SJ], just type http://madstream.team1323.com/?sj. Note that this only works with regionals whose webcasts are listed on MadStream for a given week.

As usual, please let us know of links to webcasts that aren't yet on MadStream!

Thanks, and happy viewing!

[chris1592]

South Florida's Webcast will be here:

http://www.wpi.edu/news/firstregional/robotics-livefeed.html

or

http://media.wpi.edu/Admin/Events/Live/Robotics-Live.asx for the actual stream.

[Eugene Fang]

South Florida's Webcast will be here:

http://www.wpi.edu/news/firstregional/robotics-livefeed.html

or

http://media.wpi.edu/Admin/Events/Live/Robotics-Live.asx for the actual stream.

Thanks!

[Eugene Fang]

Nine week 5 events are up on MadStream (http://madstream.team1323.com)!
If you have any links to webcasts, please let us know!

[Clinton Bolinger]

Suggestions:

- The ticker at the bottom is great. Can you make it so that if you click on the ticker it brings up the match detail? This would be similar to the www.watchfirstnow.com Match Results, displaying the Hybrid, Tele, Bridge, and Foul Point for the specific match.

- A button to swap the selected screen with the main screen. It would be great if you could unmute the selected screen and mute the swapped screen with the same press of the button.

Keep up the great work.

-Clinton-

[artdutra04]

- A button to swap the selected screen with the main screen. It would be great if you could unmute the selected screen and mute the swapped screen with the same press of the button.When you hover of one of the webcasts, this icon appears in the top right:

http://madstream.team1323.com/Images/video_swap.png

which you can click on to drag and swap webcasts between the different views.

[Clinton Bolinger]

When you hover of one of the webcasts, this icon appears in the top right:

http://madstream.team1323.com/Images/video_swap.png

which you can click on to drag and swap webcasts between the different views.

I understand that ... but I am just plan lazy. The mute and unmute function is what I would really like.

-Clinton-

[Eugene Fang]

Suggestions:

- The ticker at the bottom is great. Can you make it so that if you click on the ticker it brings up the match detail? This would be similar to the www.watchfirstnow.com Match Results, displaying the Hybrid, Tele, Bridge, and Foul Point for the specific match.

- A button to swap the selected screen with the main screen. It would be great if you could unmute the selected screen and mute the swapped screen with the same press of the button.

Keep up the great work.

-Clinton-

The ticker idea is great. I'll implement it as soon as I can.

I'll look into the button swap suggestion. It's a good idea I just don't know if I can control justin.TV or ustreams player.

[Eugene Fang]

Week 6 Update:

Once again, thank you all for your feedback on MadStream (http://madstream.team1323.com/). Your suggestions have been great, so keep them coming!

We've added a new feature to the score ticker at the bottom of the page! Clicking on a particular score will give you the hybrid, teleop, bridge, etc. breakdown of the match! You can try it out at http://madstream.team1323.com/. Thanks to Clinton (FRC2337) for the idea.

We still need the links for NV, TX, and NC, so if you happen to hear of them please let us know so we can get them up on MadStream ASAP!

Thanks again!

[Eugene Fang]

We've updated the site for week 7!
http://madstream.team1323.com

[bduddy]

I haven't been able to log into the chat, whether I'm logged in on the justin.tv site or not...

[Eugene Fang]

I haven't been able to log into the chat, whether I'm logged in on the justin.tv site or not...

Yeah something is wonky with the chat. I'm looking into it.

[BigJ]

Yeah something is wonky with the chat. I'm looking into it.

The twitch.tv chat servers have been on and off the past few days while I was trying to watch some streams, and they are a branch off of justin.tv, so it might be that still.

[Eugene Fang]

We're down to the last few hundred matches of the 2012 FIRST season, and they're going to be some of the best!
Be sure to remind your friends and family to check out the action going on at the Championship Event on MadStream (http://madstream.team1323.com/).
We will have FLL and FTC events as well. Many thanks to NASA for providing the webcast.

Thanks to everyone who made MadStream's first official season such a success. The feedback we've gotten has been very helpful, and the support we've garnered is truly amazing. We plan to work closely with other developers in the FIRST community over the next year to bring an even better experience.

If you have any comments or feedback, I'll be glad to chat with you in person this weekend in St. Louis. You can find me with either FRC604 or FRC1323. If you can't make it, please message us on our official Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/MadStream).

Best of luck to all teams competing!


EDIT:
Here are some convenient links that will make sharing with your friends and family easier.
http://madstream.team1323.com/?cmp - Loads with all four divisions
http://madstream.team1323.com/?arc - Loads with Archimedes
http://madstream.team1323.com/?cur - Loads with Curie
http://madstream.team1323.com/?gal - Loads with Galileo
http://madstream.team1323.com/?new - Loads with Newton

[Hawiian Cadder]

I am going to try to record all the webcast matches for CMP this year with VLC, does anyone know if the different webcasts are different camera angles? or are they all going to be coming from the same set of cameras as the official NASA webcast(the easiest for me to record)

[Eugene Fang]

I am going to try to record all the webcast matches for CMP this year with VLC, does anyone know if the different webcasts are different camera angles? or are they all going to be coming from the same set of cameras as the official NASA webcast(the easiest for me to record)

Cool, recording the webcasts would be really great. MadStream is just aggregating the NASA casts, so they will be the same.

[Hawiian Cadder]

Cool, recording the webcasts would be really great. MadStream is just aggregating the NASA casts, so they will be the same.

Thank you, I want to get as many camera angles as possible.

Does anyone know if the Webcasts from The Red Alliance will be the same as well? If anyone knows of a webcast that will be different tell me about it and Ill try to record that as well. (providing I don't run out of disk space, I have about 4TB to record onto.)

[EricH]

A quick heads-up (and something you really need to take care of):
NASA connect time, ~10 seconds.
TRA connect time, ~5 seconds.
MadStream connect time: I connected to both NASA and TRA a few minutes apart and MadSteam is still trying to connect to the streams. Need to get that taken care of.

[Eugene Fang]

A quick heads-up (and something you really need to take care of):
NASA connect time, ~10 seconds.
TRA connect time, ~5 seconds.
MadStream connect time: I connected to both NASA and TRA a few minutes apart and MadSteam is still trying to connect to the streams. Need to get that taken care of.

Thanks, done. The feed links weren't up yet last night, so I just put them in.

[EricH]

Hmmm... At least before it was trying to load! Now it's not trying, not sure why.

[Joseph Bisch]

I just tried loading Archimedes and it works for me. I'm using Chrome on Windows.

[EricH]

I just tried loading Archimedes and it works for me. I'm using Chrome on Windows.
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, repeat nothing. No Archimedes, no Newton, no Curie, no Galileo, no Einstein, no Edison, no Franklin. Firefox on Win7.

Well, nothing unless you count the Twitter feed.

[Eugene Fang]

Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, repeat nothing. No Archimedes, no Newton, no Curie, no Galileo, no Einstein, no Edison, no Franklin. Firefox on Win7.

Well, nothing unless you count the Twitter feed.

Sorry, I'm looking into it. Somehow NASA's stream for this event seems to be different from past NASA broadcasted events.
Do you have Silverlight?

[Eugene Fang]

Everything works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari. IE may or may not be 100% working. =\

I'll try to find a workaround on the plane tonight...

[EricH]

Working now, thanks!

[Skehtb]

Everything works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari. IE may or may not be 100% working. =\

I'll try to find a workaround on the plane tonight...

It's still doesn't work for me, it's just loading and loading and loading...
Using Firefox on Windows XP.

[kevinmikol]

Team 1732 has posted a live feed for the Boilmaker Regional
http://team1732.com/live/