[Jonathan Norris]

As mentioned earlier the most difficult aspect of creating an application to record the matches automatically is the different hardware configurations. The only way to really solve this is to have the recording equipment come with every field (I believe there are about 9??). For that we would need either convince FIRST that a computer with the necessary video capture card, and adequate performance is a good investment. Or some how get a specific sponsor to donate the equipment for all the field setups.

On top of that it would crate a new volunteer position, and the person running the recording would need to be very adept in using computers and solving problems that arise... (I can tell you as much as you plan these things out, capturing video with a computer isn't always a reliable system... computers like to crash). So doing all this isn't as easy as it sounds, but if the community creates a application to automatically record, split, encode, and upload all the matches we would have a strong case to bring to FIRST to get a system like this installed for every field setup.