NASA TV Satellite Feed

[LBK Rules]

I know I'm going to capture the video onto MiniDV, and VHS. I will try to make a go/no-go tomorrow on wether I will be able encode it, based on my success with capturing and encoding a video 62:47 long.

I don't want to inconvience anybody, but if I can't get my test to work on Friday, I can't understand how I could get even half the kickoff encoded at 720x480 anytime that weekend before Sunday evening without a miricle.

My copy of the files on the NTFS partition is about 2/3 complete. I need to go to bed, and I will try everything over again tomorrow morning.

In response to bellow post: No Kidding.

I'm also planning to capture the webcast as well.
I love doing this, but it makes my head hurt.

Oh, and about the schedule:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat..._Breaking.html

January 8, Saturday
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - FIRST Robotics Kick-OFF New Hampshire - AMES
2 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. - FIRST Robotics Kick-OFF New Hampshire - AMES (Replay/Recorded 1/8/05)

It's a good thing it's playing again!

[Joe Ross]

Maybe people will realize now why it takes NASA a few days to get thiers posted.

[sanddrag]

I plan on recording the broadcast to DVD but I'm not sure of what use it will be after that. As for the webcasts, there are multiple places serving NASA TV over the web and all the streams look pretty good right now. They may get bogged down on kickoff but teams remember, if for whatever reason you canot get a broadcast, there is always the option of webcast. Just search Google for "NASA TV Webcast" and you should find lots of sources.

[KVermilion]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Maybe people will realize now why it takes NASA a few days to get thiers posted.

NASA puts up a recording for download?

Then why bother? I think that a few days for a few teams isn't worth the trouble of capping, encoding, and distrubting.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by KVermilion

NASA puts up a recording for download?

Then why bother? I think that a few days for a few teams isn't worth the trouble of capping, encoding, and distrubting.

Well, some people might want a higher quality video than NASA's video or if their servers are being slow....eh, forget that thought. But if I remember from last year the video quality wasn't the greatest, just ok/good.

I'm doing the digitalizing for myself to have a hard copy, non erasable version for reference and part of my digitalizing all FIRST stuff myself, as much as I can.

[ahecht]

If everything works out, I should have a fairly high quality wmv available by the end of the day (about 800MB/hour). I use snapstream and a WinTVPVR, but I've never done the wmv encoding for such a long program. I don't know if WPI will have the NASA TV feed working yet, so I may just end up with two hours of the WPI bulletin board. Click on the "Zan Hecht" in my sig to email me if you want the link when it is ready. Please only email me if you will be distributing the file to others. I have a fast upload speed, but WPI gets angry if I tranfer too much data.

[LBK Rules]

I have awakend, and now I'm capturing again onto my NTFS partition.

I'll see if it crashes in about ten minutes.

EDIT

I'm at 4,305,458KB, and it's still increasing.

EDIT2

Ok, I have captured the file, and I am encoding using XviD. (VDub) If I have time, I will also try DivX, and WMV.

[LBK Rules]

I've tried, and tried, and tried, but I just can't encode this DV video.

I'll get back to you about a VCD-res MPEG-1. I might also try downloading the Dr. DivX trial.

[Stu Bloom]

For those concerned with the NASA TV broadcast schedule not listing the kickoff ... the NASA site here has two separate programming schedules. The "standard" Daily NASA Television Programming Schedule doesn't show anything about FIRST, but the Live Events, News and Special Event Programs schedule shows the FIRST Kickoff broadcast at 10-12:30, then replayed again at 2-4:30. My PVR is set, but I don't have a good or easy way to retrieve it digitally.

[sanddrag]

I don't know a whole lot about this stuff but there is a program out there called FX video converter. Maybe someone will find it useful for something.

[LBK Rules]

It's a no-go for me this weekend. I'll still have the tapes, but I won't have a digital video for a while.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by LBK Rules

It's a no-go for me this weekend. I'll still have the tapes, but I won't have a video for a while.

Dont worry about it, others will have it digitalized and NASA will have it on their site.

I'm off to bed to get up for our remote. See ya all somewhere...

Mike