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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
If a team with good technical know-how could persuade their local regional to pay for the necessary internet connection or ISDN lines and the webcasting equipment, then NASA would probably work with them on getting the webcast up. (Note: I don't speak for NASA, but this is how I understand things work.)
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I think that the biggest obstacle is getting the interenet connection available for just streaming use AT THE LOCAL SITE. I know that SOAP already records matches and hosts (afterwards and sometimes during) them at certain events. I guess if there were an easy (manuals or just a clear general explanation of the process) process on how to either setup a streaming server or to digitally encode certain matches an abitious team could then use their more technical people to set it up.
I wasn't reffering to setting up a stream directly through the usfirst website, but I would think a stream coming over the local internet host just so that more people could watch it and possibly used some more advanced technology other than RealMedia that could offer some alternatives as to quality vs. bandwidth. (by that i mean a better compression codec could possibly yield a better quality or a smaller load on current regional internet connections) Thus enabling more regionals to be able to broadcast over their local internet connection. Please go look at the Google Video Client and think about how we could leverage that for FIRST (it is almost entirely based on VLC)
I think that a SOAP encoding system would work provided someone would be willing to host something like that, but I am reffering more specifically to the live broadcasting of events that will not be archived.