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Did anyone have trouble with the webcast towards the end? Mine got really choppy.

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You're not alone. This morning till about noon I was running 2 at the same time. When I came back after 3:45pm I couldn't even run 1. My friend was also having the same problem, and I noticed that my rate was about 90kbps (if that).

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I was capturing all 4 and all 4 of them got messed up at the same time. so I have about 12 hours of bad footage on my computer now.

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Now I have a question. Watching the webcast and Recording it would briing forth 2 different qualities of what your seeing right. I'm asking b/c The Curie Division had very poor webcasts on both RM High and Low Bandwidth and WMV!

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The quality was about the same when I was watching and what I taped.

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I thought the video feed was good. It never got choppy on me, and was much smoother than I expected.
I did notice that FIRST's video people were having some trouble. The Macromedia Flash video overlay sometimes wasn't an overlay; you could see the bright green background. One of the fields, Newton I believe, had poor color contrasts. Other than that, I those small things I thought it was perfect. I can't wait to see what the NASA tv video feed will look like this morning.

It's really exciting to be in FIRST right now. We're fighting through the growing pains. Who know's maybe next year we'll get even more coverage. TechTV, HowStuffWorks, Headline News, this is getting big :D