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They're already up on the TBA FTP.

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Hmm read right over that post, again with my thoroughness problems.. well thanks for letting me know before it was too late.

-Greg

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do we have any uncut video that needs to be parsed?

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They're on the TBA site now. Thanks!

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Does anyone else notice this year we have many fewer regionals archived than we did last year at this time? After 4 weeks there are only 8 regionals Archived (Lansing is available here firstvideoarchive.com).

Are people having issues getting video online or parsing. Either way please post if you are having problems. Many teams use these videos for fund raising and showing parents what FIRST is all about.

-Mike AA

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I think most of it is just do to time constraints - I've done FLR and Buckeye (for the years 191 have gone in the past) but this year I have a baby on the way so Josh Goodman had volunteered to parse them this year for me after I recorded the FLR regional. Somehow we'll figure out a system so that this is taken care of just like webcasting in the future.

It's getting better but with all the economy slow downs and layoffs there's probably more important things on people's minds lately.

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I just uploaded the semifinals and finals from Las Vegas to TBA.

I will probably not get a chance to parse the rest for several weeks. The unparsed video is 7.7 gigs. Anyone want to take a shot at it?

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I'm busy this week but if no one finishes it before Sunday I might be able to take it next week.

What would be nice is a server where one person posts unparsed videos and (after approved by mods) anyone can download and parse them up to post back to the server. Mods could then check to make sure it is not spam, then give to TBA or Soap.

PS. spam means irrelevant nonsense, I have nothing against team 180, who helped us win two competitions.

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i have video for waterloo regional and toronto regional and will be parsing asap (probably starting tomorrow). So hopefully i can get some stuff up soon.

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Well if anyone would like to do this just PM me, I will put up a live directory and PM FTP info. If you DO send video PLEASE put it under a directory with the regional name!

EDIT: Here is the link to random unparsed video http://firstvideoarchive.com/firstupload. Just download the video file then PM me for the upload password

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Just wondering if u did archived one of the regional(s) would u put them on your teams web site or send it to the blue allience or both?

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il probably do both

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OK, I'm currently uploading the NASA VCU files to The Blue Alliance's FTP, how do I get them to SOAP - or do they download everything directly from TBA (my ISP would certainly appreciate not having to upload everything twice)?

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Just upload them to TBA they will get copied over to FVA (firstvideoarchive) which is now what soap points to.

Mike AA

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I'm uploading the unparsed Las Vegas to first video archive http://firstvideoarchive.com/firstup...as%20Unparsed/. Since I'm on a relatively slow internet connection, it won't finish until at least Wednesday morning, but the first few files are already up.

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Some parsed Las Vegas (NV) is on its way up to TBA right now. If you go to edit this, make sure not to duplicate effort :)

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I'll see how much I can download and parse on the plain on the plane on Wednesday.

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Do you know when Lone Star will be done?

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I've got selected matches from the 2009 Palmetto Regional as detailed in the 2009 Palmetto thread. They're currently huge as they're straight off my camera in AVI format, but I can transcode them to whatever you want. All are 640 x 480.

If someone can PM me with details you can have them all.

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What programs do people use to convert .mp4 to .wmv for windows movie maker?

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Does anyone know when the rest of the Connecticut Regional footage will be available? Currently only the first day of matches is up on TBA.

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Are you referring to the semifinals and finals I uploaded already (and mentioned earlier in this thread), or did someone already start parsing the stuff I uploaded to firstvideoarchive?

I used avidemux on linux. I'm not sure what people use on windows, but if possible, it would be best to keep it as mp4 and avoid transcoding to wmv.

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Windows movie maker does not take mp4, could you point me in the direction of a free software that does take mp4?

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I use a program called meGUI and two other pieces of software that expand it's video compatibility. Just a warning, it is not the most user friendly software out there.

AVIsynth and FFDShow allow meGUI to work with different types of media and should both be installed before meGUI.

After installing AVIsynth and ffdshow you can install meGUI.

The first time you run meGui you will need to create a worker under the Worker menu. I also recommend checking the "Autostart Queue" under Options->Settings.

My parsing procedure is to open the video using the meGUI File->Open. If the video is not directly compatible with meGUI this automatically opens a dialog to create an AVISynth script. I crop here if necessary and then save the script. You can also deinterlace during this step if necessary by setting the source type to Interlaced and checking the Deinterlace box on the "Filters" tab.

Next I open AVS Cutter from the Tools menu and select the newly created AVS file. Find the beginning of the desired clip in the window and click "Zone Start" find the end of the clip and click "Zone End", then click Set to set the zone. Repeat for the score if desired. After your desired cuts are set click "Do All and Close" in the non-video window.

I am not very familiar with encoder settings so mine might not be ideal, but I set the video to "x264: CE-Baseline". In the "Cuts" section of the audio select the .clt file that corresponds to the video you are editing. For Audio Encoder I use "Nero AAC: NDAAC - iPod - Good".

Click AutoEncode and set the Average Bitrate to 1000kbits/s.

Then rinse and repeat.

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Everything's been uploaded, feel free to copy it - especially since TBA doesn't link to awards and such, and many teams like to have copies of it. ;)

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I'm the weak link in the Peachtree/Lonestar video chain. I've been unexpectedly busy at work, and this week I'll be packing up house for a big move saturday. I should be able to get to things early next week.

I don't think uploading my unparsed video is quite as practical as for some people, as it's stupid high quality so I can do a decent job deinterlacing it and still have something useful to compress down to the TBA format and a set of larger MPGs for teams to use for their own purposes.

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Wisconsin has been digitized and will be sent around for parsing this evening. I'm hoping to get all files uploaded by the end of the weekend.

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Apparently, Colorado School of Mines has an archive of Colorado somewhere, but I can't find it. I'll continue searching, but it is there.

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I appreciate Team 48 for archiving and streaming the regional, but I pray that next season, they don't use FLV. It's a huge hassle. I've yet to find a good program (commercial or free) that can successfully convert the files. Had it been another standard, Buckeye would be up by now.

Anyway, I'm probably just going to upload them somewhere soon.

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I am at a regional this weekend and I have midterms all next week, but after that I may be able to convert these for you. I tested the method I use on an FLV and it appeared to work.

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I have NJ Day 2 and All days for Finger Lakes

downside is it's a huge *** file so to get it out to the central archiving area will be a hassle =P

I use My Video Converter for Windows

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does anyone want to help with waterloo and GTA regionals? I doubt il have the time before championships and i know people are waiting for them to go online...

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How huge is huge? 2GB?

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umm big lets leave it at that lol...

Now I know why they came out with Terabyte drives

I didn't have time to scale back the quality since I was busy doing WPA / Spare Parts and Field Related work.

NJ (Sat) 15.6GB WMV Format
ROC (Thu, Fri & Sat) 30GB Total WMV Format

If you can scale back the quality you'll def. get a smaller file size but I'm hardly home to really "sit" with it or to just set it and forget it.

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I've been running FTP uploads and torrents at nights recently. I'll probably do these tonight.

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Does anyone know if the Chesapeake Matches will be archived? It was webcast for the first time this year. Thanks

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I have the eliminations from Boilermaker parsed and will work on the rest this week. Can someone please let me know where to upload the videos?

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<directed_at_Jason>
I can parse some of the qualifications if you want...
</directed_at_Jason>

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Unfortunately due to some hardware issues we were unable to record the Northstar regional at the quality we would have liked. The event was still recorded, but at the same quality it was webcast at. We are also missing Match 19 for some reason.

When I was parsing the videos I also noticed that the audio on quite a few of the matches is extremely out of sync with the video. I worked for a few hours on this, but didn't seem to make any headway so I decided to upload everything as is.

At the moment I'm having an issue with uploading it to the TBA FTP, but as soon as I get that squared away I will be sending it all over.

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The server had an issue where one disk was set to read-only, preventing file uploads. The server then had an issue where it stopped responding. A reboot appears to have fixed both issues. Please let me know if you encounter anymore issues uploading files.

Thanks!

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I've got the Buckeye Regionals setup on my own FTP server at home. It runs 24/7 (yea Linux!) so you can pull it overnight or whatever. I've only got 768k upload speeds, so I'd prefer that you get it overnight. Raw FLVs, less than 5GBs, please get them soon. I need the space.

PM me for an account.

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To all those who are interested CSM Robotics has video footage of the Colorado Regional at

http://csmrobo.mines.edu

Enjoy

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Ok, This was the link I was refering to in my earlier post. Here's what needs to be done to these video's before they can be put on TBA:1. Rename into XX_## where XX is event name and ## is match number. 2. Light parsing, it doesn't include the anouncer intoduction, but it begins shortly before the acual play starts, Also it has the Moon Rock emptying and counting at the end. 3.(general) This is missing a few matches in the middle.


And unfortunatly I can't do this due to time and computational restraints.

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I'll work on getting the Colorado videos up on TBA this weekend.

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Any update for either Peachtree or Palmetto video? Thanks!

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Does anybody have sound on the Colorado videos? I don't hear anything on my computer, and I want to make sure that it's not a codec issue before I keep encoding these.

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Sound exists in the videos (at least, it does in Q4 small version). However, it is EXTREMELY quiet. Crank your volume up to the max and see if you can hear the audio. You may want to consider boosting the audio in your encodes...

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Thanks, I can't believe I didn't think to check the Qual matches, I do have audio on those. It seems like there is just no recorded audio for the elim matches :confused:

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I have audio in this file: http://csmrobo.mines.edu/2009_Colora...207-1158-S.mp4 when played with mplayer on linux.

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I didn't check all of them, I do have audio for that match. Thanks for looking into it.

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I'm going to upload Chesapeake for parsing as soon as I get back from spring break (so I can use their internet connection...:D).

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I looked through some of the pages and didn't see anybody mention this so I'll just ask it.

Does anyone have or know where to get video of the Florida Regional qualifying day 2, award ceremonies (day 2) and alliance selections? The Blue Alliance only has Day 1 and the eliminations. Thanks

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Hey everyone,
don't forget about this thread.

If you could offer your assistance I'm sure everyone who'll be at home and not at Championships would appreciate it. And for the rest of us, of course a great reference in the future. I know I'll need it.

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I am having issues uploading files larger than 1mb to TBA. I can upload small files but the 25mb videos won't go.

will

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I sent Greg a PM about this last night. He is going to work on it tonight or tomorrow.

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Cool.
:cool:

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most likely, i'll be helping Matt out with this, At least for Saturday Morning, if not Friday AM as well

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Thats awesome. I just thought about it this way, if you're not going to be doing much in Atlanta and want to help out, why not help the folks that give you gameday and some of the resources to watch robots when we can't make it to an event. I'm sure everyone who unfortunately will not be making the trip to Atlanta will be happy to know they can have the same benefits.

I know I'll be stopping by to give some thank you hugs! :p

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Is this still happening? I am not able to reproduce the failure. Do you get a specific error message?

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Yesterday I could not get this to work. After school today I tried again and it seems to be working.

This was the non-descriptive error message i got yesterday



will

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The cdvideo ftp account was over it's 50gb quota. I have expanded the quota to 75gb and will work to move videos out of the cdvideo ftp share faster.

It ought to work again great now.

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Thanks!!


Does any one have video of Friday afternoon at Boilermaker? I will parse the video if someone can get it to me.

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Kevin S.

Any update on the LSR videos?

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I managed to copy the raw (unparsed) video files from Rob yesterday, who has been busy being a student since NJ. I will be contacting people via PM, to get some help parsing & uploading, or at least uploading unparsed so someone can have a crack at it.
Rob is working on Palmetto on the bus ride to ATL today, he said yesterday he's mostly finished. So based on his performance with NJ, maybe we'll see it this year? :p

Don

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I've cut up everything I got from Don and uploaded it to the TBA FTP. I would guess it will be moved over in the next couple days.

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Just got a lot of this. Will convert rest after Champs. Thanks!

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To the people whom I've given my info to, did they grab Buckeye yet?

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I've tried but was unable to connect.

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This Season Was Great!

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Thanks so much guys, it's been frustrating to have the video and it not being 'available'.

Don

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Hrm, I'll have to look into it. I might just pony up and upload it to my team's site overnight.