Live Streaming and Recording of Events

[Patrick Flynn]

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV

A lot has been talked about recently about the ability to live stream and record events. This has been something a lot of groups have been looking into.

Spectrum has been working on a paper on how we set it up at the Lone Star regional this year, but I know there are different ways of doing it at different events.

Here is the current draft of the paper . It still needs a lot of work before the paper is polished but I think the system is pretty good for the cost. We spent a little over $500 total on our setup excluding the laptop (we just used my personal laptop). The original setup was conceived by Clinton Bolinger and the EngiNERDs and they use a system similar to this to do many of the MSC recordings and streams. At Lone Star we had a very poor audio input and we were also streaming over a 4G modem because there wasn't a very good internet connection at the event.

Allen I love the paper so far, A question I assume this currently requires someone to be sitting at the streaming table hitting start stop at the end of each match to split the match footage? It there anyway to automate this and not require an addition person at the event?

Secondly a more general question is there someone at FIRST that we can get in touch with and work with to get a universal set up?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by Patrick Flynn

Allen I love the paper so far, A question I assume this currently requires someone to be sitting at the streaming table hitting start stop at the end of each match to split the match footage? It there anyway to automate this and not require an addition person at the event?

Secondly a more general question is there someone at FIRST that we can get in touch with and work with to get a universal set up?

It does require a person, but I don't really see this a problem. Literally anyone can do this plus they get a pretty good view of the matches. I had two students switching out during the event and it was never an issue. If you want to do some of the nicer things, like instant match uploads or match replays you will need a person anyway. We also had alliance selection results to the side of the screen and were able to quickly make gone to lunch or other graphics as needed. All of this needs to have a person working the laptop.

I'm sure there is someone to talk to, but I'm not sure who. I know Clinton and I have both spoken to Frank about it, not really sure what the progress is.