Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Hey! Sound on Curie is starting to sputter a bit for me. That's nice.

Edit: It's on now! It's nice being able to hear the stuff going on.

I finally left a message for my main mentor so that she can possibly give me the match schedule so I don't need to attach my face to the computer screen to see the robots.

The overhead cam is pretty bad though, especially when they put the scoring up and it covers the bottom part of the field (I know it's not a big deal, but it does bother me a bit).

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

The real test for me will come tomorrow around 1 when I hook this all up to my 32" LCD HDTV. 17" just isn't going to do it for me during the matches!

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I think it'd be nice if one year a team got 4 consumer 1080p cameras, locked them into overhead view, and afterwards distributed a bunch of gorgeous 720p or 1080p match videos via bit torrent. With 1080p resolution (1920x1080), a robot would, instead of being 45x45 pixels like it is on this webcast, be approximately 300x300 pixels. It would pretty much be the same as having the cameraman having the camera right up next to the robot, except you'd have all 6 on screen. As far as costs are concerned, a $1,500 camera isn't that bad when you're paying $10,000 for trip costs and entry fees.

Edit: Ok, so that camera can 6mbps HD video. This means that a single match (assuming a 2m 30s average) would be 900 megaBITS, or 112mb. An entire regional would, depending on the regional, be just 13gb. That's not that bad.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Yes! Someone is fixing Curie's camera! The audio is getting better too!

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I was just able to see buzz on the webcast! That was timely because I now have to go take a physics mid-term.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Galileo looks fine to me, other than the fact the match I'm watching only has one robot on the field. :ahh:

Wetzel

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Just checked all fields work with sound except Newton. And thats the field I want to watch. O well hope there is sound soon.

Edit Newton now has sound which means all fields are working.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Audio on Galileo is far, far, out of sync. I'm watching the middle of the teleoperated period in a match, and I'm hearing the autonomous start/end sounds.

Using windows media here.

Edit: appears to be good now.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Gal has nothing for me now.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

Curie seems to be doing pretty good for me now =D

The only thing is the overhead camera. Hopefully it's much better tomorrow for that.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

GRR! I just saw 1126 leave the field. the links on the NASA site didn't work untill they refreshed thier site. that's crap.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

What do people think of the commercials? I like them...one step closer to being primetime.

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

I'm not really quite sure what to think of the commercials at this point in time...

It's killing me to not be there though >.< I was actually all set to go Tuesday (our team left early Wednesday morning). And then I got sick. So it feels like my health just ripped away my last chance to be in Atlanta as a senior.

Thank god for webcasts, right?

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

What is with the NASA stuff now? It's not lunch time i want to see matches not inside a space shuttle...

Re: 2007 Championship Webcast
 

yeeah... the commercials that keep coming on make me think that it's the lunch break... but it's not.

It's getting a bit annoying. And psyching me out.