2006 Regional Webcasts
 

Does anyone have any information about webcasts at regionals this year? I checked the http://robotics.nasa.gov website, but they haven't been updated yet. With the first week of regionals 1 week away, I thought we would have herd something by now. I know in past years, they webcast about 8 regionals, NASA/VCU being one of them.

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Arrangements are being made to webcast both fields of the Greater Toronto Regional.

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Boilermaker will also have one. NASA graciously offered to host it, so we're working out the details.
We plan to link to it from our site. http://first.purdue.org/boilermakerregional

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You can check the NASA TV Live Events, News, and Special Programming Schedule to see when upcoming FIRST webcasts will be.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat..._Breaking.html
It currently shows the VCU Regional for next Saturday.

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The Midwest regional will have a webcast as well. Details will appear on www.midwestfirst.org when we get closer to the event.

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Does anyone know if BAE will be wecasted this year and where?

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I do believe the first ever Boston Regional is scheduled to have a Webcast with help from NASA, details are expected to follow

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Are there going to be any webcasts this year. because i can't find any for this year on the FIRST website. or on NASA. Can someone help me out here...


Thanks in advance

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I have merged the threads.

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With network drops at Boston and Palmetto the SOAP team will send the feed to the NASA-KSC servers.

Florida and Virginia also handled by NASA; likely Texas and Silicon Valley.

KA-108 :cool:

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Does anyone know if the Portland Reginal is going to be webcasted?

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are you guys going to archiving boston and palmetto as well?

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Yes. 720x480 resolution. expect 16MB per match.
Archiving Florida and championship too; planning on 111 to help with Wisconsin and Chicago.

KA-108 :cool:

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here's a webcast update just received from NASA team...

Virginia, NASA TV
Florida
Silicon Valley
Palmetto, upon confirm of network
Boston
Maybe Lone Star
Arizona, NASA TV
Boilermaker with Local University Support
Toronto Regional with Local University Support
Vegas and Milwaukee tentative for NASA TV


Dave, is the Midwest on your own, or via NASA servers...they didn't list it.


KA-108 :cool:

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Will Virginia be on webcast as well for those who dont have the NASA Channel?

[EDIT'D] Nevvvermind... http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webc...onals_2006.php

Hopfully some of the practice matches tommorow will be live! :D

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I wish NASA would broadcast GLR. GLR (from my biased standpoint) is probably the toughest and most competitive of the regionals. We are home to numerous Championship placing teams.

I definitely intend to watch regional webcasts from this week to know what to expect next weekend when it comes to scores and penalties.

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I feel your pain. CR is a competitive regional, but it doesn't get as much attention as Detroit and Boilermaker. As a Chesapeake Regional, I'm happy that NASA's working on something to broadcast our regional over satellite TV. It's a tough regional, but a fun one. Our winning alliance fell, but other teams such as 1507 (Rookie All-Stars last year) and 175 did extremely well at nationals.

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does anyone know if it's possible to record the webcasts? i'll be at school and i'd like to be able to watch them.

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If you have DVR software on your computer, you might be able to record them directly.
Otherwise, if you have a video out port on your computer that you can connect to your VCR, you can get it on videotape. We've been taping webcasts for years this way.

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Thanks, i'll try that!

FYI, GTR is slated to be webcast! at least according to this page

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This weekend some of my friends are coming over to watch VCU on our bigscreen.

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Another one that should be webcast is the Philly Competiton, some say that the robots that compete here are the best in the East Coast! Work up

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Direct from the nasa team.....
KA-108 :cool:



Bit rates are as follows:

Windows Media (43kb, 148kb, 350kb)
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ARL: mms://a64.l1856648259.c18566.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/64/18566/v0001/reflector:48259
Link: http://mfile.akamai.com/18566/live/reflector:48259.asx

Real (KSC/AMES)(34kb, 225kb)
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http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/...der/firstva.rm

Streams will be up and down here this morning as things get rung out from the production house feed.

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I am checking it out... no feed yet or is anyone else watching??
thanks

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i cant access/see a feed either

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I've got a great feed of the VCU.

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The Real Player feed is up and look great. The WM is still having some difficulties.

KA-108

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The RM feed is coming through great, at first I thought there was no audio but then the match started.

I'm curious as to how they're keeping score in real time? Are people just watching how many balls are being shot in?

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I can't get either of them to open and play.

edit/ had to notch down the firewall

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Dr. Bot posted a link to the Real Player version of the NASA / VCU in this Thread

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Ryan-

Most of the field is automated this year. Balls are counted by a camera system as they exit the ball chute on the high goals, or as they cross into the side goals. The system is as yet untested in a competition, but I suppose we will find out how that goes after this weekend.

Other aspects, such as a penalty and ramp points are scored by humans during and after the match ends for the final score.

-Andy A.

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All I'm getting is the white FIRST screen...i'm watching in realplayer...any suggestions?

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yea, i am watching it too, i think it might be a technical problem since i hear the audio, but dont quote me, lol...VCU is interesting, the highest score i have seen is 40, to bad we can not make out the robot numbers, it would be really good for scouting, however i must go to class, a disadvantage of college life, tomorrow i will be in BAE....happy watching and goodluck at your regionals!

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Andy,

As of last week, they were looking for volunteers to do real-time, cause they were still experiencing some difficulties. Unless they have solved these problems in the past 7 days, I believe they will have volunteers monitoring this system.

--Bil

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Does this worry anyone else?

This game is so dependent on real time scoring. It can't be played with out it. Given how real time scoring has gone in the past, I'm a little worried.

I am hoping very hard that things work out in the fields favor.

-Andy A.

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Definitely in agreement. I have no clue how a human scorekeeper would keep track of the corner dumpers. Too much chaos there. Crossing my fingers...

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Have faith in FIRST, it'll all work out. :cool:

GO 1403!!!

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I cannot believe how impossible it was to find this thread. Took me more than 45 minutes to find it. Just proves how crowded this forum is.

Thanks to Philmont629 for bringing it up in another thread.

This thread is now sticky in the regional competitions sub forum.

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On the webcast/tv cast schedule it says this:

What exactly does this mean? Will Chesapeake be web/tv casted or no??

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I believe it means Chesapeake is tenative for webcast.

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EMU's Electronic Media program is planning on webcasting the Great Lakes Regional Friday and Saturday. I'll post link info when the streams (one for Dial-up, and one for Broadband) are up. We are also trying to get a link posted on EMU's home page www.emich.edu

Steve

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Does anyone know if the Arizona Regional webcast is going tomorrow, friday and Saturday or just Saturday only?

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Sorry for the double post.

Any webcasts going on today at all? Anyone out there?

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Florida is being webcasted

http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/robotics/

And Arizona maybe today or tommorow?

See: http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/webc...onals_2006.php

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Well, the Great Lakes streams are up. Splash page at the moment, we go live in the morning. Check out the EMU home page (www.emch.edu) under EMU News for an item that links to the page with the streams.

For those who just like to do things the old way, you can link to the streams manually by opening Quicktime Player. Go to FILE, and click on "Open URL in New Player". then enter either rtsp://164.76.124.68/FIRSTdsl.sdp for a broadband connection, or rtsp://164.76.124.68/FIRAST GLR du.sdp for a dial-up connection. (Typo in that last one, but I didn't catch it until I had already given people the link. It works so I left it.)

Steve

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Thanks for the information Emusteve!

Although the GLR is already over, is there any way I can watch it?

Thanks!