Webcast Issues

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Zach O

If your stream isn't on Gameday, I'm not watching it. Digging through Chief to find links to webcasts is a thing of the past.

This exactly. The community has built some great tools that make webcasts a much simpler experience. Let's try and work together and iterate what we have to make it all even better.

And seriously, the fact that TBA is open source is great. If there's an idea you have, a feature you want, a service you want integrated, or literally anything else, just post about it, submit an issue, or fork the repo and submit a pull request. For every cool thing you can do by yourself, we as a community can do a thousand times better as a group.

[blockhead]

I agree with this 100%... Over the four years I was on my team I was not very fortunate to be able to travel with them to competitions (as often as I wanted to). The ability to watch the live stream is vital for each team because they have parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles even sponsors that want to see how your team is doing.

This is one of the reasons why I made At The Control... I really didn't need a place that I could watch multiple feeds at once, I wanted one place that had all of my team data and live stream. (don't get me wrong TBA and GameDay are great applications) Unfortunately such sites did not exist. So I made At The Control while on my third year of the team. (Mind you I had no clue how to build a website my freshman year)

I am a number kind of guy, I love knowing how many people use my site, seeing how they interact with features, with each other. (I wouldn't use these numbers to my advantage either) Because the site really caters towards team specific followers I do end up getting allot of visits from parents back home. On Saturday I was running through the chat log and was just seeing how things were going and I noticed something and it immediately threw red flag...

The issue crosses a line where my work starts getting criticized and bashed because some regionals or third party streaming services will not allow other domains to embed feeds. This wasn't the first time it happened and in the case that the stream is not allowed to be embedded I post a message where the video would display that reads, "We apologize but the streaming provider dose not allow us to user their feed" it continues with a link to the video. But regardless of that it still happens. I get this is a completely separate issue however it can be solved by the push of a button and every one would be happy.