[NE FIRST] Match Video Mega Thread

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

Haha isn't that the truth.

Although, YouTube's API is pretty simple - the video upload functions should return the video ID, which you can then send to a single endpoint to add to a playlist.

You can even have the user input a playlist ID to use (which is how I do it) if you don't want to create one

Excellent. I'll work on that. Priority right now is trying to get these corrupted files working. Turns out re running them through ffmpeg only fixed one video and I'm to the point where I'm manually modifying the headers in the .mp4 files to see if i can get any results.

Side note, I found an error in the FRC API for Granite State (nhnas) Final 2. The auto start time jumps -5 hours behind Final 1.

Is anyone seeing this on other events?

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Excellent. I'll work on that.

It's not that bad. Here's an example using the python API , if you want to take a look. I'd offer to help, but I know absolutely nothing about C#.

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Side note, I found an error in the FRC API for Granite State (nhnas) Final 2. The auto start time jumps -5 hours behind Final 1.

Is anyone seeing this on other events?

Some of the data is already pretty far off, and since we're not really sure where those numbers are coming from, I wouldn't put too much faith in them. I'm thinking we should submit a bug report on the tracker to try and get some clarification about where these times are coming from.

[Ty Tremblay]

Hi all. I accidentally left my hard drive with the AV company after UNH this weekend. I'm working to find a way to get it back, but there will be a delay in getting the match videos uploaded.

[Ty Tremblay]

One hard drive acquired. I'll start working on uploading matches today.

I'll have the other hard drive next week.

I'll do my best to get as much up as possible before WPI.

EDIT: NEUD matches were not officially recorded. Are there any teams that recorded matches?

[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

One hard drive acquired. I'll start working on uploading matches today.

I'll have the other hard drive next week.

I'll do my best to get as much up as possible before WPI.

EDIT: NEUD matches were not officially recorded. Are there any teams that recorded matches?

Ty, thank you for doing this again.

For those of you in the know, and communicate directly with the AV company at the events, or NE First when setting up the streams.

I have two questions:

Question 1:
Is there a reason why the streams are not set to archive automatically? To my knowledge NE First uses Twitch for 2015 webcasting, which supports automatic saving of the stream, and storage.

Unless there is some technical reason why we can't do this, it would make everyone's lives a lot easier when trying to access archived matches... because it would be done automatically by Twitch, and saved immediately.

Question 2:
For WPI (NE District Championships)

I am not sure what the webcast setup will be, or who is in charge, but is there anyway we can just get a webcast (and archived recording of the full field), that does not cut to different views???

I remember NE First making the statement last year they would try to do this for every event, but I haven't seen that happen yet. I personally appreciate the work the AV company does to get in close on the action, but they never are focused on what I care about at that moment in time (and what I care to see, may not be what the next person cares to see).

I think a lot of people will agree, a fixed full field view is much better for so many reasons. Can we make this happen for WPI? This is going to be an amazing event, having a full field recording of it would make it even better.

So who can we talk to about this? Or is this already what is being doing for WPI?

Regards,
Kevin

[Steve Kaneb]

Originally Posted by NotInControl

Or is this already what is being doing for WPI?

Just like last year, WPI will be running two streams: one of full-field, and one with the feed that's going to the projectors at the event. In between matches, we will still be showing the field because the sponsor slides are rolling on a different screen in the venue.

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by NotInControl

Question 1:
Is there a reason why the streams are not set to archive automatically? To my knowledge NE First uses Twitch for 2015 webcasting, which supports automatic saving of the stream, and storage.

Unless there is some technical reason why we can't do this, it would make everyone's lives a lot easier when trying to access archived matches... because it would be done automatically by Twitch, and saved immediately.

Rather complicated answer here. All streams since week 3 have been automatically archived on Twitch and can be found here:

http://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_red/pro...ast_broadcasts
http://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_blue/pr...ast_broadcasts

However, Twitch provides no guarantee that the archives will be available forever and reserves the right to delete the archives as needed. As you can see, the blue channel already has no archives left.

Additionally, Twitch automatically detects copyright audio in all recorded video and will mute the audio for the video when copyright audio is detected. Since FIRST plays copyright audio ALL DAY, this is a big hurdle.

Thirdly, the Twitch playback feature is pretty terrible. Twitch is made for live video, and there's reason most Twitch streamers also have an accompanying YouTube channel.

[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by Steve Kaneb

Just like last year, WPI will be running two streams: one of full-field, and one with the feed that's going to the projectors at the event. In between matches, we will still be showing the field because the sponsor slides are rolling on a different screen in the venue.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

Rather complicated answer here. All streams since week 3 have been automatically archived on Twitch and can be found here:

http://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_red/pro...ast_broadcasts
http://www.twitch.tv/nefirst_blue/pr...ast_broadcasts

However, Twitch provides no guarantee that the archives will be available forever and reserves the right to delete the archives as needed. As you can see, the blue channel already has no archives left.

Additionally, Twitch automatically detects copyright audio in all recorded video and will mute the audio for the video when copyright audio is detected. Since FIRST plays copyright audio ALL DAY, this is a big hurdle.

Thirdly, the Twitch playback feature is pretty terrible. Twitch is made for live video, and there's reason most Twitch streamers also have an accompanying YouTube channel.

Sucks... but makes sense I guess. Thanks for the explanation.

[Eric Scheuing]

Any chance anybody has video from Hartford they'd be willing to share?

[Mammaloon]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

One hard drive acquired. I'll start working on uploading matches today.

I'll have the other hard drive next week.

I'll do my best to get as much up as possible before WPI.

EDIT: NEUD matches were not officially recorded. Are there any teams that recorded matches?

Hey Ty(and anyone else concerned)
The Ligerbots were running multiple cameras at Northeastern, so anyone who wants video from matches they were in with us can email me at cameroninoz@gmail.com, or just wait until I put them on TBA. We have video of the full field, whichever half of the field we were on, and the scoreboard.
Good Luck, and keep up the great work!

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Mammaloon

Hey Ty(and anyone else concerned)
The Ligerbots were running multiple cameras at Northeastern, so anyone who wants video from matches they were in with us can email me at cameroninoz@gmail.com, or just wait until I put them on TBA. We have video of the full field, whichever half of the field we were on, and the scoreboard.
Good Luck, and keep up the great work!

Thanks Mammaloon! AS soon as they're uploaded to YouTube post here and we'll help you add them to TBA!

In other news, all RIDE match video is split and ready for uploading. I have to do GameSense in a little under an hour though, so I won't be able to hit upload until after we go off air.

[Mammaloon]

Hey Ty
All videos are now on our youtube channel, link here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgN...7d58dVR-80DCGA
I have already uploaded a few to TBA.

[Ty Tremblay]

Hi all,

RIDE videos* are going up at youtube.com/newenglandfirst as I write this. Any help getting them into TBA would be greatly appreciated!

*FYI, there was a little SNFAU with the match times from the API, so matches 34-56 were not split correctly yesterday. Those are uploading now.

[Ty Tremblay]

Hartford videos are going up.

UNH videos were unfortunately split into hour long segments, so I'm going to let my computer combine them all overnight. Here's hoping it works.

[Ty Tremblay]

UNH Videos going up.

Due to the weird power outage at UNH during Finals, the file holding F1 got corrupted. F2 and the Award ceremony are ok though.