Live Streaming and Recording of Events

[Ryan Dognaux]

One question I have is how are you guys getting the high resolution real time scoring overlay? I thought the Scorpion box could only output a composite video source, but streams like PNW have really sharp real time scoring info - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWduHPHCZjk

[Metonym]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

One question I have is how are you guys getting the high resolution real time scoring overlay? I thought the Scorpion box could only output a composite video source, but streams like PNW have really sharp real time scoring info - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWduHPHCZjk

The FMS case outputs DVI, at least on the PNW fields. This is then converted and split into an HDMI signal that we overlay on our stream and show on the FTA's desk.

Originally Posted by RoboTigers1796

We were banned from Twitch while streaming the NYC Regional. Not for music copyright though, for "nongaming content". We were displeased to say the least and have still yet to receive a response from Twitch on the matter.

Twitch is a gaming focused streaming site. They have the right to take down any stream that doesn't fit with the style of content they want on their site. I agree that it is frustrating, but you just have to accept that fact.

[cbale2000]

Originally Posted by Metonym

Twitch is a gaming focused streaming site. They have the right to take down any stream that doesn't fit with the style of content they want on their site. I agree that it is frustrating, but you just have to accept that fact.

The only thing is, Twitch has "FRC: Recycle Rush" as an option in their "what game are you playing" menu when you setup the stream, so unless those categories are submitted by the community and not reviewed by anyone, Twitch should be ok with FIRST competitions being streamed.

The real problem is that the "non-gaming content" flags are submitted by users, not twitch admins, if you get enough flags you get banned automatically for 24 hours and the appeal system is too slow to be of any use.


Our first event this year was streaming to Twitch and got banned in the middle of Friday competitions. We switched over to Hitbox.tv (basically a twitch clone with fewer restrictions) and had no issues aside from having to refresh the stream every few hours due to length limitations.

[Deetman]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

One question I have is how are you guys getting the high resolution real time scoring overlay? I thought the Scorpion box could only output a composite video source, but streams like PNW have really sharp real time scoring info - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWduHPHCZjk

All the District scorpion cases do not have a scan converter in them so FIRST gave us an option of what video output we wanted. I think all the districts opted for DVI as you can get DVI, VGA, and HDMI from the DVI-I output.

For MAR, we've done it two ways since the audience screen is limited to 1280x720 resolution.
1) 720p: 15ft DVI to HDMI cable straight into our video switch equipment.
2) 1080p: DVI -> VGA adapter into VGA->HDMI scan converter which scales the resolution up to 1080p then via HDMI into our video switch.

Obviously what you can connect to is out of your control, but on the standard scorpion case you could connect to the VGA pass through which will output the audience screen as if it was on another computer monitor. From that you could scale that to whatever resolution you wanted. This is what we were going to do in MAR before we found out this year that we were getting a DVI output.