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Anyone have a ETA on the rest of week 1? week 2?

Thanks,
KA

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The PNW matches have been parsed; they now just need to be compressed and named according to convention. It may be a while still, though, because I have to worry about finishing some work up first and then we're away for the Silicon Valley Regional. We'll also be recording that event.

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The matches from the Great Lakes Regional were all successfully recorded by one of team 1503's members; however, I couldn't say how long it'll be before they are uploaded.

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Eliminations, award intro, and chairman's award are up for Wisconsin. The rest will be rolling in steadily until Wednesday, then I'm off to Purdue. Will hopefully finish up the rest before I head out to Cleveland the following week.

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*too lazy to read all 10 pages for something i'm not sure is there*

Does anybody know if the Pacific Northwest Regional was recorded or if we will eventually be able to view it somwhere? So far, i've only been able to find a single match on Youtube.

So here are my questions:
1. Does anybody know if it was recorded?
2. If so, where can I find the footage?
3. If not, are there any plans to tape it next year?
4. If there are no plans to tape it next year, how can I?

5. Is the Davis Sacramento Regional going to be recorded?
6. If not, how can I make it so?

Could somebody please PM me with the answers to some/all of these questions? Thank You.

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if you look up there was a post about PNW


"The PNW matches have been parsed; they now just need to be compressed and named according to convention. It may be a while still, though, because I have to worry about finishing some work up first and then we're away for the Silicon Valley Regional. We'll also be recording that event."

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Ok I read that one but it didn't make sence to me for some reason. But still, where could I find the footage? And is the Davis Sacramento Regional going to be recorded?

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The footage is not available online yet. We're doing what we can to get it up as fast as possible.

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Yes, the Davis Sacramento Regional is scheduled to be recorded. If you have the recording equipment, then you can record the regional as well, as a failsafe, just in case something happens.

M. Krass and 488 recorded the Pacific Northwest Regional, and has indicated that the raw footage has been parsed, and now needs to be compressed, and named.

The person who recorded in NJ had technical difficulties getting a recording, and so we are now waiting on the feed from team 177 (they did a webcast of NJ) to be parsed and graciously uploaded to soap by The Blue Alliance.

I'm not sure what is going on with the VCU video. I've heard that it was recorded, but that is all.

As for week 2's footage, I hope all is well.

The following is the list of regional coverage, as far as video recording goes. There are still regionals without recorders, so if anyone is going to those specific regionals and are interested in recording, then they should definitely think about volunteering.

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I'm working on ripping and encoding the content from Great Lakes Regional, should be done by middle or end of this week but could be later.

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The Brazilian Pilot was partially recorded by 383 - the A/V company had a huge problem with their equipment in the last qualification matches. Even though they asked us to keep recording because they would need it later, they managed to shut down our computer so we lost the last matches as well.
Since the event was webcast, it was also recorded from another computer - we'll just have to wait and see if the quality is acceptable. In case it is usable, we'll also have the finals parsed.

Anyway, parsing of the recorded matches will start this week and we hope to have it ready before we travel to the US (March 22nd).

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I *might* be able to manage something for UTC, such as a VCR, as it's something that I don't care if it goes for long periods of time unattended. I know I have the equipment and software to be able to capture RCA directly to hard drive(s) as MPEG2 at 720x480 resolution, but I wouldn't be able to oversee it all day... But once recorded, I can also parse the video.

Which also reminds me, would anyone be able to capture the UTC Webcast as well? That might be of a higher quality than VHS tapes depending on your available bandwidth.

Edit: Here's the link: http://shsrobotics.org/06/webcast/

Double Edit: 1000th post! woot

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The following regionals will begin in the next day, and as yet, no one has volunteered to record them. Is there anyone going to these regionals that would be willing to record (and maybe parse into individual matches) the raw A/V feed from the production company?

Detroit Regional
Greater Kansas City Regional
Peachtree Regional

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Is SOAP also recording/parsing Buckeye because I see they are webcasting the event.

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I would like to mention that if anyone has recorded video and doesn't have time to help parse it out, myself (and I am sure others) are willing to help you out. If you get it into a digital format i'll be glad to help split it up into matches and get it uploaded.

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I second that.

-Mike Aalderink

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No. I'm not sure how our name got tagged onto San Diego or Buckeye. NASA is looking for someone to help with those as we speak, er type.

Good news though- I have found someone to webcast and archive both Canadian regionals.

KA-108 :cool:

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SOAP -

Well the problem I have so far is that I am digitizing to mpeg(2Mb/sec) and then I have to batch convert it .wmv hopefully using Ulead Video Studeo to get the size down. My tuner card won't work with the Windows Media Encoder.

So what is the recommended configuration?
Resolution 640x480?
Compression?

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Sagar and I were planning on recording Waterloo and GTR, but if we don't need to now its less work for us. :]

But if they need any help (whom ever it is), feel free to ask one of us.

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His name is Steve Warren, originating from Team 188. Perhaps you can help encode each match as it happens, thus avoiding the need to parse later. You could also help upload the movies during the event.

KA-108

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There's a WME config file at http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/2007.wme

The codecs are WM 9 series... maybe 10- whatever comes with the latest player/encoder programs.

In a nutshell: 720x480 (640x480 is ok too), ~800kbps video + ~40kbps audio, deinterlace, "2007 xxxxx Regional" metadata.

There's a great tool to convert video called "SUPER". I've used it to scale down some matches to fit on my Nextel i880. If you ever run into Dan Green from WildStang ask to see the Kickoff video on his phone.


Thanks,
KA-108 :cool:

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The NASA site says that the New York City webcast is courtesy of team 108, could someone from the sigmacats tell me if they are archiving it also, or should I record it anyway?

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Finger Lakes Regional, Qualifier #34:

http://1000islandsschools.org/FIRST/robot_reg.htm

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We shipped the committee a laptop specifically for archiving. If you'll be there, perhaps you can offer to help... (please!!)

KA-108

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Team 108: Thanks a ton for the video archives.

I found that for the Florida regional, there were quite a few missing videos.
Namely, my team 665's matches 2 and 25.
Is there anywhere with these matches?

Thanks for whatever you can do.

Team 665 -MAYHEM

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hehe funny story. The team captured matches 1-3, but didn't realize that each time they were overwriting the previous file. The encoder option to ask before overwriting was disabled. Doh!

Sorry. If anyone from FL wants to send us a VHS of all our missing matches, I'll personally see to it they get encoded.

Thanks,
KA-108

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Not to step on anyone's toes, but I'm uploading CT matches LiVE, (albeit slowly). I'll do this until Peachtree webcast URL gets announced.

Note, since I'm digitizing a webcast, I'd still expect someone later to upload higher quality from the event site.

Thanks!
KA-108 :cool:

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The 2007 Great Lakes Regional has now been fully posted!

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Ok Folks _ i just finished digitizing all of the Finger Lakes Regional Matches and they are in the process of being uploaded as I type. There's 1.17 GB total. This year's FLR was the year of the underdogs it seems. But either way great show from all teams.

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Just fyi ellery, some rounds aren't uploading quite properly. If you notice rounds 6 and 10 stop during or right after the introductions. I mention those two specifically because those are 2228's first matches lol.

I'm not sure what would cause that but I'm sure someone will figure it out.

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The first day or so of Arizona is digitized currently, we're double checking formats to make sure they're close to what SOAP wants since there's one person digitizing the matches and another one that will be uploading them.

Expect to see parts of Arizona come up this week.

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Oh well.
Thanks anyhow.
And matches 25-26 or 7 were missing too.
Lunch break?
<Not trying to be overly sarcastic.>

But the fact that the matches are there at all is awesome!
Thanks to all who worked hard to get the website working and videos uploaded!

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Craig,

Yeah the FTP screwed up partway but they should be good now since I re-sent it. Enjoy!

Ellery

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Awww man!
I see that the tape ran out in the middle of finals 2.
I'll see if I can get a copy from the televised show.
Sorry.

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Anyone know if the Chesapeake matches will be posted online? (And the rest of the VCU ones while you're at it :D)

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If someone can get me the login info, I can start uploading more UTC matches.

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I'll PM you the details.

Thanks!!
KA-108

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I'm planning on recording the video on site at Lonestar and I could parse it as well. I'll be recording to MPG on a Hauppage WinTV card. Is there a preferred final format for the video?

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Hi, yes there is.. SOAP has a preference for WMV and the settings file is here: http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/2007.wme

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I am in process throughout today uploading Boilermaker regional to my server.

video.team2015robotics.com

-Mike
2015

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For some reason, it seems like the SOAP WMVs have broken indexes. I can not encode them straight to Flash Video using FFMPEG, but if I use the Windows Media File Editor to rebuild the index, it will convert to Flash Video.

It's weird, and forces me to batch encode to an intermediary AVI since the Windows Media File Editor won't batch rebuild indexes.

Either way, tons of video from SOAP is going up to The Blue Alliance Match Archive System for online streaming and sort-by-team-ness. Thanks guys! I really miss my high speed connection at school though. 5.5 gigs there would take like an hour, and here it is going to take 8 :(.

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Hey, I'm glad the SOAP videos are helping you. Your concern with the wmv index is something for SOAP108 to address.

PS: What's the word on the video from NJ? I notice that's still not on the SOAP website..

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SOAP has some big Quicktimes of the elims, but I'll push up the WMVs I have to soaphelp. They're not encoded by SOAP standards, but they ought to work fine.

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Yes, I see that.. Ken also put up parsed webcast footage for the quals at UTC (Tom is the one that uploaded the elim videos, however). I think Ken intended for these to be place holders, while footage was being parsed/uploaded by whoever volunteered.

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I had looked at the matches 1-19 that were posted earlier of UTC, and some were wrong. The scoring system said "match 19", but it didn't correspond to the 19th match indicated by FIRST's online match results. I'm not sure which one is correct...

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Yes. Go ahead and overwrite the webcast-captured files.
KA

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Just a guess, but some files were parsed out via asfchop.exe which may not have handled the indexing well.

Could you try a file known to be direct from WME? Such as the NYC matches.

I'm obviously not up to speed on flash and playback b4 full download. Could someone give a brief synopsis? I put a test swf file up at http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/ but it didnt do what I was hoping. This swf was created using SUPER.

Thanks!!
KA-108 :cool:

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Please bear with me... As a computer nerd who started in the 70's :yikes: it takes me a bit to absorb all the latest trends... like video archiving.

But my experience tells me that unless these is a consistant search method to locate these competiton videos, they'll just get lost in the noise of Britney's FIRST drink after rehab.

Has anyone considered how to make these videos stand out? Is there a special keyword that has been assigned to make them easy to locate?

I tried looking on Google for regional videos and could find nothing usefull.... :mad:

How would a novice like me go about finding the neddle in the haystack if I wanted to locate the official Chesapeake regional videos?

Phil.

And what the heck is SOAP ? :confused:

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SOAP is "Sigmac@t Opponent Analysis Program," and is, more informally, the nice group of folks who host archived videos of FIRST competitions. They provide the hosting space and bandwidth required to maintain an archive of these matches in a single place.

http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/

It doesn't appear that they have Chesapeake videos available yet.

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You can look at The Blue Alliance Match Archives, or "TBAtv", located at www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv . You can look at videos and scores by event, or search for a team number in the top right hand corner. You can watch the video in streaming flash right on the page (like YouTube), or download the source file directly. Have fun!

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I thought SOAP stood for "Scouting Opposition and Alliance Partners" ...

Oh well, its a FANTASTIC resource either way ...

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I was just shown a video from the Manchester Regional urging people to upload everything to Youtube from Dean and some Youtube guy.

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It belongs in another thread but I'm too lazy- Does this request by DK and YT not totally sit well with anyone else? Does every match really belong on YT, or just promo stuff like Chairman's submissions, animations, etc...

Your thoughts...
KA-108

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It's very likely that Team 578 is going to record and parse the phili regional because there is a strong interest in doing it. On monday I can tell you the final decision.

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It is too hard to search youtube effectively, especially the way it is organized and returns mass search results. I think a more searchable useable community-maintained site is more appropriate. This is what The Blue Alliance is trying to do, and I think between us and SOAP we have the FIRST Match hosting stuff covered.

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Hey if Dean wants it there he can copy/paste the files to his harddrive and upload all the files to Youtube. He's free to do so. They're there for the taking.

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True, FIRSTers will always do a better job than 3rd party because we know what we need / want.

Scoring system db integration is something we've been requesting for years...

I will have the ear of FIRST HQ this w/e and we'll see what sort of co-opertition is possible.
Wish me well...

KA-108 :cool:

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I personally like being able to get directly to a specific year and specific regional with only one click. I dont have to search for the specific terminology then hope youtube pulls up the right videos. SOAP is SOOO much easier.

-Mike
2015

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I can provide webspace for some clips, although I don't have the hardware to do much else.

My webhost is very generous with webspace ("Put the server to use"). It doesn't have impressive bandwidth, but it works. (I do prefer footage from 904's matches, since they are my team, but I'll host anything.)

PM me if you need space.

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I am uploading the waterloo footage as I cut it up, its only the archive from the webcast right now but we also have most of it recorded to dvd that will take a little longer to split up. For GTR next week we have a dedicated computer that is going to archive the video at a higher resolution than waterloo.

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/wat/

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I just saw this.. I believe that when the scorekeeper makes a change to the database, it gets sent at the time the change is made, so it may be out of sync with the match schedule. That is, not having the match numbers shown on the web display is annoying, and will cause confusion.

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All we need is an XML or CSV feed from the scoring DB. The data is all available anyway, but its all put up in an inconsistent and hard to parse way.

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O/T:

Do you know if the DBs from the regionals are online somewhere?

I was going to run some numbers on the scores, but with the equal share of ramp points, rack points, and how different the exponential scoring is this year, as opposed to the "1 or 3 per" last year, the numbers would make even less sense.

Better yet, is there a scout from every regional that recorded the number ringers scored by each team there?

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We'll have that data for Palmetto in a few days. (assuming the computer isn't dropped or something like that)

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high res version of the Waterloo Regionals will up soon, so again, please bare with the quality.

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I know that Jeff Rodriguez captured accurate data for at least Friday of UTC, and 1511 was running their amazing scouting program at Boston, so I'm sure they have it as well.

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I just heard that there may have been a technical error down in Buckeye and nothing was recorded. I need to hear back Ed if that's true or not... If it is I was told some other teams may have had it recorded since there were other vcrs there too.

Please let me know which other teams recorded the Buckeye and hopefully they can do the conversion for everyone.

Since I wasn't there I was told QF4-2 and QF3 matches were the most exciting out of the whole regional. I really want to check them out if someone can post them.

Well cross our fingers :(

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Everything I recorded was blank.
But I have all of day one's action thanks to team 48 (but Travis told me they usually don't record day 2. They record for scouting purposes).
I'm trying to get in contact with Dave Campbell from 1038 to get the day 2 action. There were like 9 teams recording action so somebody has it.

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BTW-- if anyone wants to volunteer to capture one of the four open regionals this week (Colorado, SBPLI, Philadelphia, and Palmetto), then that would be great.. it looks like either way, once everyone who recorded uploads all their video, this will have been a great first year effort. 30/37?

I wanted to do SBPLI myself, since I'll be there, but I don't have the equipment. heh.

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Ok, our team has officialy decided to go forth and record the philadelphia regional. We will try to tape everything including the awards. When we finish recording everything we will host it on our website for everyone to download.

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Great - hopefully your website will be able to handle the bandwidth draw.

I have been hosting mostly the FLR off my residential RoadRunner account and it lags my system pretty bad.

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You might consider uploading it to SOAP108 and TBATV. People frequent these sites in search of match videos.

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If anyone has more video than they can handle hosting, between The Blue Alliance and SOAP there is more than enough storage space and bandwidth to go around. If you have video you want to see online, PM me or someone from SOAP.

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I recorded both days, but I haven't checked my tapes yet. I should get a chance to do so tomorrow.

Kev

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Hmmm....my tapes are blank too. Did we both screw up, or was there something wrong with the feed?

If anyone DID get all of the raw feed, I'd love to get a copy. Please PM me about it if you can help me out. The uploaded stuff will be great, but I'm looking for EVERYTHING.

Thanks,

Kev

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Don't worry, Kevin.
48's day 1 vids came out and they will be up soon.

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We're uploading PNW videos now, but I'm not able to stream them or anything.

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/or/

Can someone take a look at one or more of the files and let me know if you're able to view them? I'm trying to pinpoint where the problem is and see if we can fix it. :)

We apologize if we broke SOAP.

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I cannot download the files or stream them. I have been uploading boilermaker and tested my files and they seem to work right.

Boilermaker FINALS are up, I am at West Michigan and using GVSU's upload speed to get some more uploaded 200KB beats my 44KB but I wont have the rest done til tonight. Atleast everyone can see the Finals!

-Mike

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I can't view the movies either. I get the following message when I try to view the movies (I'm using Safari): The requested URL /2007/movies/or/or_001.wmv was not found on this server.

Hope that helps.

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Thanks, guys. We'll regroup and try to figure out exactly what it is that we broke. :)

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All of the Silicon Valley Regional matches on SOAP also yield 404's.

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Yeah, we're aware of that, too. I guess we'll have to check with the nice folks of SOAP and figure out what we did wrong.

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We're still looking for Buckeye Day 2 Videos - anybody else got them?

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Getting copies from both 48 and 1038.

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All matches from Arizona are finished, a few awards and ceremonies still have to get up but that's it.

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SJ and OR have issues. Not sure why... The file permissions are ok.
Plenty of disc space left.. Please try to re-upload.

When I download via ftp, they play ok... hmm...

KA-108

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We uploaded the last part of SVR matches this morning and they do not work, either, so I don't know if uploading the rest again will make any difference. Perhaps we'll have better luck if we try uploading from outside Microsoft, but we won't know until someone can get the drive from our lab and try it elsewhere.

Is the FTP access set up so that we don't have permission to download from your server? I tried to download the videos via FTP and couldn't do so.

Edited to add: I can download others via FTP, so there's something afoot with our videos or those directories. You were able to download them, however, so I wonder what it is that's making them unavailable to everyone else.

Thanks,

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I downloaded via FTP some of the matches, deleted match one then reuploaded it and its still not working right.

EDIT: For temporary sake if you put an additional or/ once you reach the or directory I put the videos there, so one could download from that spot.

-Mike

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I have a batch script that will use FFMPEG to reencode any non-WMV video to well compressed xVids. When I get back to my external hard drive later, I will post a link and instructions so anyone who needs to convert raw footage and can't get WME to work can use it.

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Whew, now that regionals are finished with, and I can return to a somewhat normal life, the remaining awards videos from Milwaukee should be posted in the next few days...but Thursday at the VERY latest!

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It turns out that we recorded most of Palmetto via VCR (I think we are missing some of the eliminations, and possibly a couple of matches when we switched tapes) I'll see if I can find a way to digitize it and such, but it probably won't be done by Atlanta (sorry), however, we should be able to get it on SOAP at some point.

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Fastest way to get VCR tapes transferred is to get a TV USB stick. They run around $90 at Best Buy.

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There are cheaper solutions if you look around a bit. The USB converter SOAP uses runs closer to $50. Also, a MiniDV Camcorder can be used in "VCR" mode to capture in external video instead of just playing back what it contains. So if you have a camera lying around, don't go spend more money.

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Umm, yea-- the problem was that each of the files uploaded had whitespace before the name. For example, " or_001.wmv", rather than "or_001.wmv". I renamed the files, and everyone should now be able to view them.

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I thought that looked odd and yes, now the files all work.

-Mike

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I will have the Buckeye Day 1 matches 1-41 uploaded in the next few days and when I get the remaining matches for day 2 I will get them up as soon as I get them from Ed if he was able to pick a copy up this past weekend at GTR.

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LSR Elims and two huge chunks of awards are up. qf1m1 was being a pain last night, so I'll be re-upping it in a bit. This would go a lot faster if someone had a recommendation of a good program to split an MPEG2 into a billion pieces. Only thing I've found that works well is TMPGEnc, but it's a tedious one at a time process.

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I have been using windows movie maker and it will automatically split the file into "chapters". For each set of 3-4 hours I do at a time I usually get around 700 "chapters".

-Mike