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Zach O 26-02-2009 16:45
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
There is a Chicago Regional being broadcasted, but it's not my regional. Still, it's being broadcast. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/521259

Zach O 26-02-2009 16:51
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeeForce (Post 828203)
Has anyone gotten the Kansas City webcast to work on a mac?

http://www.more.net/mets/first/#march6 click the "Program 1" one
Flip4Mac will play it. There is a free, unlimited trial.
Flip4Mac

Cory 26-02-2009 16:54
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
For anyone interested in webcasting an event, here are more details on how to go about using NASA's servers to do so:

http://robotics.arc.nasa.gov/events/webcasting.php

Mark Rozitis 26-02-2009 20:35
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris (Post 827844)
From what I hear this year is you need a separate internet connection for the webcast this year, depends on the regional I guess. For Waterloo we just connect to the Waterloo University network and use their pipes, for GTR we are likely going to have to set up a separate DSL connection.
what kind of internet connection do you get at the Hershey centre? When I was there last year covering it for the news I saw someone stringing a few km of Cat 5 cable and someone talking about no signal. If someone has a Telus Rev A modem and a plan or their $15/day unlimited plan and there is a good radio signal then the upload speed on that is 550k from this little USB modem, thats how I do all my live driving shots for TV from my truck on livecast.com.

I hope to be at the GTR regionals and possibly waterloo this year for Weather network and Global, hopefully I can find a green energy technology angle to play.

I'm not sure in what capacity I will be shooting, for news we just shoot highlights and a few interview clips but I am not sure yet how it will go this year.

I have a Telus Rev A modem with an industrial grade plan, I just don't know if I will be there all three days yet.......otherwise I could offer that connection to you.

m

Alex Cormier 26-02-2009 20:39
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Rozitis (Post 828310)
what kind of internet connection do you get at the Hershey centre? When I was there last year covering it for the news I saw someone stringing a few km of Cat 5 cable and someone talking about no signal. If someone has a Telus Rev A modem and a plan or their $15/day unlimited plan and there is a good radio signal then the upload speed on that is 550k from this little USB modem, thats how I do all my live driving shots for TV from my truck on livecast.com.

I hope to be at the GTR regionals and possibly waterloo this year for Weather network and Global, hopefully I can find a green energy technology angle to play.

I'm not sure in what capacity I will be shooting, for news we just shoot highlights and a few interview clips but I am not sure yet how it will go this year.

I have a Telus Rev A modem with an industrial grade plan, I just don't know if I will be there all three days yet.......otherwise I could offer that connection to you.

m
You really like coming to the robot events? I've been watching your posts for the past few years and I am very impressed on you look into it. You want to do this for work and make it happen any way possible. That is just excellent!

Mark Rozitis 26-02-2009 20:49
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alex Cormier (Post 828314)
You really like coming to the robot events? I've been watching your posts for the past few years and I am very impressed on you look into it. You want to do this for work and make it happen any way possible. That is just excellent!
It's a lot of fun compared to what I do everyday in news, not to mention the GTR regionals is like a free rock concert and sporting event all rolled into one. GTR regionals is probably my favourite, If I was news director we would be live there all weekend :)

The FIRST one I covered was Aim high and that was a good high energy game and I guess I was hooked. The culture is also different as well, I often come away from a regional thinking if only we could apply what happens here to the workplace in the real world............

I'm also interested in technology, in news we use radios, scanners, computers, weather radar, live video, all sorts of stuff and while I can't stand sports this is different because involves technology.

It's fun, I just hope I get to spend more than 30 min at the GTR this year, never know when working in news.


m

Barry Bonzack 27-02-2009 08:59
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Oklahoma will be broadcasted here

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/oklaho...otics-regional

soap108 27-02-2009 09:24
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
For the encoders out there, please enable the "deinterlace" option. This will reduce the jagged lines when there's a lot of motion.

Both FME and WME have these settings.

Maybe this can be added to the webcast wiki?

Thanks!
KA :cool:

JulieB 27-02-2009 09:27
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Is there any way I can watch DC on my iphone

Matt Keller 27-02-2009 19:23
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by JulieB (Post 828480)
Is there any way I can watch DC on my iphone
Not currently, no. The only webcasts you will be able to watch will be ustream.tv streams using their iPhone app which is free in the App Store.

dcbrown 27-02-2009 20:30
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Two days down, one to go. BAE webcast went better today vs yesterday. I only had to work around the network issue the one time around 11-11:15ish. Uplink bandwidth dropped down to 300kps and QoS to 4% with 1.5-1.9s pauses at this point. During the afternoon the stream was run at 350kbps without issue. I ran at 450kbs early in the day without issue on my end, but the playback end was jerky/choppy.

Lessons learned:
. you can keep dropping bit rates while running Adobe FME, but below 300kbs it isn't really worth using the flash media encoding
. the ustream channel seems to get disconnected for bandwidth or latency issues when running with FME - my guess is if the buffered bits bleed down on broadcast and if it can't get more in time, then you get disconnected and are forced to reconnect/resync. Just seems that way to me, ymmv.
. using the ustream.tv/pull (no FME), you won't drop the connection no matter what. It will just pick up what data is available when it can transmit it next. So, it will get jerky and be of lower quality... but its not a blank screen (not much endorsement there!)
. total bandwidth being used up is video+audio and with FME the minimum is another 98kps - kept forgetting that.

and finally...

. www.internetfrog.com is your friend - it has a measured download/upload/round-trip-time/QoS/max pause time for a sample transfer chunk. Monitoring the network with this every once in awhile can give you a sense of what's going on and how safe it is to push transmit rates up or revert back to an FME stream. I've got a screen capture I'll post -- it shows 9kbps upload capacity. Yikes - not much I could do with that! (The link is a T1 and I often got 2Mbps up/1Mbps down early in the morning or after the end of competition.)

Travis Hoffman 04-03-2009 04:05
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
The Pittsburgh Regional will be webcast by Team 48 via the same link as Buckeye - http://live.delphielite.com. Team CIA 291 is partnering with us by splitting the fee for the Internet drop needed for the webcast and providing human and hardware backup as needed.

Greg Marra 04-03-2009 11:15
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Just keeping the master list in everyone's field of view :)

http://firstwiki.net/index.php/2009_Webcasts

soap108 04-03-2009 11:44
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
added NYC link on wiki

http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2009/ny/stream.php

KA :cool:

soap108 04-03-2009 11:47
Re: 2009 Regional Webcasts
 
Good post. Helpful.

FYI- In FME you can use Mono audio and get it lower than 98...

KA



Quote:
Originally Posted by dcbrown (Post 828658)
Two days down, one to go. BAE webcast went better today vs yesterday. I only had to work around the network issue the one time around 11-11:15ish. Uplink bandwidth dropped down to 300kps and QoS to 4% with 1.5-1.9s pauses at this point. During the afternoon the stream was run at 350kbps without issue. I ran at 450kbs early in the day without issue on my end, but the playback end was jerky/choppy.

Lessons learned:
. you can keep dropping bit rates while running Adobe FME, but below 300kbs it isn't really worth using the flash media encoding
. the ustream channel seems to get disconnected for bandwidth or latency issues when running with FME - my guess is if the buffered bits bleed down on broadcast and if it can't get more in time, then you get disconnected and are forced to reconnect/resync. Just seems that way to me, ymmv.
. using the ustream.tv/pull (no FME), you won't drop the connection no matter what. It will just pick up what data is available when it can transmit it next. So, it will get jerky and be of lower quality... but its not a blank screen (not much endorsement there!)
. total bandwidth being used up is video+audio and with FME the minimum is another 98kps - kept forgetting that.

and finally...

. www.internetfrog.com is your friend - it has a measured download/upload/round-trip-time/QoS/max pause time for a sample transfer chunk. Monitoring the network with this every once in awhile can give you a sense of what's going on and how safe it is to push transmit rates up or revert back to an FME stream. I've got a screen capture I'll post -- it shows 9kbps upload capacity. Yikes - not much I could do with that! (The link is a T1 and I often got 2Mbps up/1Mbps down early in the morning or after the end of competition.)


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