[TBA]: VCU Footage

[Jonathan Norris]

I'm working on encoding the VCU footage, got the first couple matches done, who ever recorded it did it in a pretty large format so it may take a while to download encode and re-upload. I'm starting on the first day stuff (because most of it is up there), someone else can feel free to do the second day footage. Im using .mp4 h.264 1024 kb/s.

[ham90mack]

Thanks for the update, I was getting a little worried about the lack of VCU videos online.

These videos will be on SOAP too, right?

[Jonathan Norris]

yea my upload speed is a bit slow at univeristy (i think they cap it), so its going on TBA first then i'll get it up on SOAP.

[synth3tk]

I'll head to the internet cafe tomorrow and do Day 2 for you, although my laptop is not-even-funny-close to failing, so don't depend on me until it's safely encoded and online.

Although I think I'd need to find an h.264 encoder for Sony Vegas. I'll work on that...

[ham90mack]

I see that the first VCU match has been put up on SOAP, but apparently SOAP's directory page only shows wmv files... They need to fix that. I found the first video by manually entering the link http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../va/va_001.mp4

I like how your video capture included everything seen by the rendering computer instead of just the NTSC sized frame of video, but the interlacing is pretty annoying (it is easily seen when the poles on moving robots become staggered, making it look fuzzy). Does the original video have that, or could you encode it progressive instead?

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by ham90mack

I see that the first VCU match has been put up on SOAP, but apparently SOAP's directory page only shows wmv files... They need to fix that. I found the first video by manually entering the link http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2.../va/va_001.mp4

I like how your video capture included everything seen by the rendering computer instead of just the NTSC sized frame of video, but the interlacing is pretty annoying (it is easily seen when the poles on moving robots become staggered, making it look fuzzy). Does the original video have that, or could you encode it progressive instead?

the source video is interlaced, i'll work on de-interlacing it.

[aksimhal]

Hi Guys!

Thanks for all your hard work! I recorded the VCU Regional, and for some werid reason (and I didn't get time to fix this problem) my video recording software didn't give me a choice of what format to record it in

I have a whopping 32 GBs to upload!!! FIRST did not allow me to sit at the computer so that I could press the record/stop button.

What programs are you all using to cut and convert?

I am currently uploading matches 11-61 which is 10 Gb! My computer has been literally been uploading video for that last 24 hours!

BTW, don't expect Saturday's footage to go up before midnight tomorrow. Be assured that I am trying to upload video as fast as I can ;-)

Thanks,

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

I am currently uploading matches 11-61 which is 10 Gb! My computer has been literally been uploading video for that last 24 hours!

We have a 120GB disk. I am working to get it upgraded, but we currently have about 20 free GB. My plan is to take the high-resolution video from 2006 and 2007 offline, but leave up the web streamable copies.

We may run into an issue where the disk fills up. I am going to try to avoid this, but dropping a huge amount of video on the server would almost certain do it.

[aksimhal]

K, I won't post day two untill you give me the green light.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by aksimhal

K, I won't post day two untill you give me the green light.

Post the elims, if you can. We're at 26GB free, which is a good chunk. Uncompressed video is killer though. Have you considered running it through SUPER or something else to compress it? It'd help with your upstream bandwidth issue too.

[synth3tk]

Somebody else can take day two. I just had a major HDD crash.

[Jonathan Norris]

I have matches 1-10, 26,27,36-43 all cut up and mostly uploaded. so you can remove the raw footage of m1-m10 in Day 1.

[ham90mack]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

yea my upload speed is a bit slow at univeristy (i think they cap it), so its going on TBA first then i'll get it up on SOAP.

Hmm... I noticed that SOAP seems to have the videos that you have uploaded to TBA on it. Is somebody else doing that, or are the video downloads on TBA actually linked to SOAP?

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by ham90mack

Hmm... I noticed that SOAP seems to have the videos that you have uploaded to TBA on it. Is somebody else doing that, or are the video downloads on TBA actually linked to SOAP?

The downloads on TBA are not linked to SOAP. SOAP either got these uploaded by the same person who uploaded them to TBA, or downloaded and uploaded them themselves. Either way, having the video in more places is only a good thing.

I am not sure why your Filezilla uploads are failing. The disk is not full. I deleted the awards and opening ceremony videos, and we are at 73% disk space usage. There are gigs and gigs of unused space. I would say "try again?" but I have no idea what was wrong.

I am converting and will upload the quals Jonathan has uploaded. Thanks!

[Jonathan Norris]

I uploaded some of the video last night to SOAP, focusing on TBA but when i get a chance I'll throw as much as i can up on SOAP.