Nasa Webcasts

[dez250]

Is anyone who is watcing the palmetto webcast noticing the video will distort and turn green and flip upsidedown? This happened to me once yesturday and i though it might have just been me, but now its occuring approx. every 3 mins and im wondering if its just me or anyone else also?

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by dez250

Is anyone who is watcing the palmetto webcast noticing the video will distort and turn green and flip upsidedown? This happened to me once yesturday and i though it might have just been me, but now its occuring approx. every 3 mins and im wondering if its just me or anyone else also?

I've been watching Palmetto for about 40 minutes now and haven't had anything like this happen to me. What version of WMP are you using? The newest version is version 10 - try downloading it if you don't have it.

[UlTiMaTeP]

Originally Posted by dez250

Is anyone who is watcing the palmetto webcast noticing the video will distort and turn green and flip upsidedown? This happened to me once yesturday and i though it might have just been me, but now its occuring approx. every 3 mins and im wondering if its just me or anyone else also?

Yea weird stuff is happening, I really wanted to watch this regional because of the amount of teams from my area that went, and I am sad, that its the size of a postage stamp, distorted and looks very smeary But the sound is great!

[kjohnson]

Theres nothing weird happening with my webcast - just that my internet is slow and doesn't pick it up good.

The satellite webcast of the Las Vegas regional is on, but only displaying the FIRST logo - and a brief message that said the regional webcast will begin at 9:30 PST.

[jgannon]

Originally Posted by dez250

Is anyone who is watcing the palmetto webcast noticing the video will distort and turn green and flip upsidedown? This happened to me once yesturday and i though it might have just been me, but now its occuring approx. every 3 mins and im wondering if its just me or anyone else also?

That has happened here a few times, too. It's frustrating. Stopping and restarting the stream seems to fix it temporarily. Oh well... I'll be switching back to the Lone Star feed in less than an hour so I can see 624 cap the center in autonomous. *crosses fingers*

[Ryan Dognaux]

Anyone figure out why the Las Vegas FIRST Regional just went out and some kids TV show came in on NASA TV?

[miketwalker]

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux

Anyone figure out why the Las Vegas FIRST Regional just went out and some kids TV show came in on NASA TV?

I think NASA has the satellites setup to automatically swap at 6pm for the Video Archive thing they show at certain times each day. That show just happened to be the end I guess of whatever was running on the feed they swapped back to. Makes me really sad, it swapped right as finals began.

[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.

[fluffykid]

Originally Posted by dez250

Is anyone who is watcing the palmetto webcast noticing the video will distort and turn green and flip upsidedown? This happened to me once yesturday and i though it might have just been me, but now its occuring approx. every 3 mins and im wondering if its just me or anyone else also?

thathappened to me while i was watching the semifinals for the lonestar regional as well. it happened twice during 4 matches before the batt on my laptop died.
but i still got to see my team do some good.

[fluffykid]

Originally Posted by jgannon

That has happened here a few times, too. It's frustrating. Stopping and restarting the stream seems to fix it temporarily. Oh well... I'll be switching back to the Lone Star feed in less than an hour so I can see 624 cap the center in autonomous. *crosses fingers*

thanks for the support! we really appreciate comments like that and make us hug our programmers, Jesse and Shoan.