Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Sagar Vyas]

I'm still deciding whats the easiest way for me to record at GLR...

[Jonathan Norris]

Ok so I have tried to do some planing for this. Right now i am thinking of using the recomended solution from the SOAP people, this recorder , into an old laptop that has an 80GB hard drive in it, with about 50GB free. It looks like I will need to use an external drive with it. I was wondering from the community out there what resolution/format/bitrate I should record at, and how big of an HD will i need to record a 2 day event??? the parsing is not an issue.. but will take some time. Then how would I get all this on to the SOAP archive. I also plan on hosting it on my team's website, and one of google video or youtube.

[technoL]

You may not necessarily need the external drive, unless you want it for backup. Just adding up the size of videos from the 2006 regionals, each regional contains about 2-2.5 GB of video, including awards and some extra stuff.

I'm not exactly sure at the moment how the uploading works, but I can find out tomorrow and get back to you.

[Donut]

I know for Arizona that one of our mentors will be recording the matches himself, as we sometimes don't like the view the camera give us (such as zooming in on a robot picking balls up from the ground when the other 5 are over fighting in front of the goal). I think I'll end up recording the actual big screen feed by VCR, but I'm not certain yet.

[ay2b]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

For those who are willing to record, how are you planning on recording the regional feed?

I'll be recording either to DV tape or directly to DVD. I need to check both setups and make sure I have all the parts/cables/media/etc and see which works better before I decide.

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Here are the regionals, and there associated recorders:

Los Angeles Regional 			- ayb2
San Diego Regional 			- ayb2

That's ay2b, not ayb2.

I may also be able to record the Silicon Valley Regional; I don't know yet if I'm going to that one or not.

--AJ

[Bill Bennett]

Regarding the video hosting --

Have you secured who will do this yet? Besides being a mentor & on Pittsburgh's planning committee, I also do business development for a user-generated content video sharing company (http://www.bocoo.com/)

I don't know if Bocoo would be interested in FIRST, but bandwidth and server space isn't an issue.

Maybe take a look and let me know.

Bill

[Matt Keller]

We, SOAP, will most definately host ALL videos we can get our hands on. I have been tediously working on this year's site for several months now, and I think its safe to say you will all be quite satisfied. As for video delivery, there will be our own flv player on the site to stream match videos. In addition, original filetype downloads will be available. If need be, different resolutions and/or filetypes will be generated to make your downloading experience as painless as possible. Tomorrow we will try to come to a consensus on official uploading methods and develop some sort of guidelines to reduce post-processing time on our end, and make this operation run smoothly. I shall report back asap.

I'm not on CD regularly, so if anyone needs to talk to me about anything SOAP related, feel free to IM me at ANY time. (aim: substr108)

As a side note, it has come to the attention of our team that SOAP is commonly identified as our own team, SOAP 108. It is in fact apart of SigmaC@T 108. SOAP is an acronym for SigmaC@T Opponent Analysis Program. Just something I needed to clarify.

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Then how would I get all this on to the SOAP archive. I also plan on hosting it on my team's website, and one of google video or youtube.

Like Matt commented, we will gladly host it. I will ask our host to create an ftp account specifically for uploading movies. Upload as soon as possible- LiVE at the event is preferred, or the Sunday/Monday after is acceptable too.

Worse case, snail-mail a dvd or hand one to us at the Championship. We'll be behind Einstein.

Regards,
KA-108

[soap108]

For consistency and predictability sake, we have a preference in naming the movie files.

General Naming Rules
* Two or three character event abbreviation in lowercase, e.g. "fl"
* Underscore, "_"

* XOR:
Qualification: Use THREE digits, "001", "047", "108".
Elimination: Use "qf4m2", "sf2m1", "fm3"
Awards: Use "award_" + AwardDescription.
Opening: Use "openingremarks_" + "friday" or "saturday".
Closing: Use "closingremarks_" + "friday" or "saturday".
Else: any string that does not begin with "qf", "sf", "fm", or a digit.

* ".wmv" (or whatever format extention you encoded, hopefully windows media)

Notes:
# Always use lowercase, please.
# No spaces in a filename, please.
# Sometimes a match gets replayed- name the one that counts in the standings as "fl_001.wmv". The one(s) that do NOT count, "fl_001bad1.wmv", "fl_001bad2.wmv", etc...

Abbreviations are as follows:
BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional NH
NASA / VCU Regional VA
New Jersey Regional NJ
Pacific Northwest Regional OR
St. Louis Regional MO
Arizona Regional AZ
Bayou Regional LA
Brazilian Pilot BR
Finger Lakes Regional ROC
Florida Regional FL
Great Lakes Regional GL
Los Angeles Regional CA
Pittsburgh Regional PIT
Wisconsin Regional WI
Boilermaker Regional IN
Chesapeake Regional MD
Detroit Regional DT
Greater Kansas City Regional KC
Midwest Regional IL
Peachtree Regional GA
Silicon Valley Regional SJ
UTC Connecticut Regional CT
New York City Regional NY
Boston Regional MA
Buckeye Regional OH
San Diego Regional SDC
Waterloo Regional WAT
GM/Technion Israel Regional IS
Colorado Regional CO
Greater Toronto Regional ON
Las Vegas Regional NV
Lone Star Regional TX
Palmetto Regional SC
Philadelphia Regional PA
Sacramento Regional SAC
SBPLI Long Island Regional LI
West Michigan Regional MI


Many thanks,
KA-108

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by soap108

Like Matt commented, we will gladly host it. I will ask our host to create an ftp account specifically for uploading movies. Upload as soon as possible- LiVE at the event is preferred, or the Sunday/Monday after is acceptable too.

Worse case, snail-mail a dvd or hand one to us at the Championship. We'll be behind Einstein.

Regards,
KA-108

Are you volunteering to parse the matches from a long video stream!? If so, then how long do you think it would take to do the videos as they keep rolling in, week after week?

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Are you volunteering to parse the matches from a long video stream!? If so, then how long do you think it would take to do the videos as they keep rolling in, week after week?

We'd certainly host the large files, but prefer not to do any parsing ourself. Please use available media tools to extract just the match.

KA

[Joel J]

Ok, The first week of regionals are right around the corner. We have almost all five regionals covered. If we get someone to volunteer to record St. Louis, then we will have complete coverage.

BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional - J. Norris
NASA / VCU Regional - Rob2713g
New Jersey Regional - Alex Burman
Pacific Northwest Regional - M. Krass
St. Louis Regional - ??

J. Norris, Rob2713g, Alex Burman, and M. Krass, I sent you a PM.

Is there a volunteer for St. Louis?

Its great that there are a number of people volunteering to get the raw data, but the problem now is that not many people have volunteered to parse the video into individual matches. I'm not really sure what to do about this. Suggestions?

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Is there a volunteer for St. Louis?

I'm going to St. Louis to watch. I'll see if I can get it recorded.

[Donut]

I can probably get the matches for AZ parsed, but I'd probably take a while to do it.

[Joel J]

Alright, awesome.