Nasa Webcasts

[BaldwinNYRookie]

I watched started watching Houston and Palmetto from the last few matches today, Palmetto was actually better quality than Houston. I thought the Las Vegas regional would be on webcast. What happened?

[UlTiMaTeP]

I believe the Las Vegas is suppose to be on Nasa tv. Broadcast.com use to do free Nasa webcasts at 300+kbit but they were bought out by yahoo.com, which makes me very sad. Its now a pay service and they no longer have nasa

[Matt]

Las Vegas will be web casted but since it is on NASA TV they only show Saturday's competition.

[lynca]

The Webacst is connected through a dial-up line because broadband was very expensive at Reliant. Therefore, getting a good connection is difficult, they might be releasing archives of the elimination rounds since we are recording.

[Kevin Sevcik]

FYI, the webcast for Reliant is actually connected over 128k ISDN line. The technical details mean that it's being encoded twice, so it'll look a bit off from that, too.

[UlTiMaTeP]

Ah I see, thank you for clearing that up.

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

FYI, the webcast for Reliant is actually connected over 128k ISDN line. The technical details mean that it's being encoded twice, so it'll look a bit off from that, too.

Even though I'm not a big fan of Realplayer... why not just upload one feed? It'll double the quality... and I'd rather there just be one type of video to view and get the overall quality improvement, even if it's on the less-preferred streaming video. Just an idea.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Originally Posted by miketwalker

Even though I'm not a big fan of Realplayer... why not just upload one feed? It'll double the quality... and I'd rather there just be one type of video to view and get the overall quality improvement, even if it's on the less-preferred streaming video. Just an idea.

By encoded twice, I meant encoded once, then encoded again. The AV feed is routed into a Polycom videoconferencing codec, which dials into a NASA MCU or endpoint. So it's encoded once at Lone Star by the Polycom, and then presumably again at the NASA site to get it into Realplayer format. So two rounds of lossy compression can make for some odd video sometimes.