Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

If there's a large screen showing action on the field then there is a live feed and you can attach your VCR to the feed and record what's happening.
I just looked at pictures from previous years at Arizona and I see the big screen so that means there are the means to record the action. Ask the AV guy to help. They're nice guys.

Based on what you said we could "TiVo" it, right? Maybe instead of people with VCR's we could TiVo it and it would be a little easier?

Pavan.

[chris31]

We will be recording all of VCU. We plan on having 2 cameras running so we can have an overview of the match and closeups of certain parts. We will have it all posted shortly after the regional.

[Kellen Hill]

Team 1625 will be recording St. Louis if you were still needing a person.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Pavan

Based on what you said we could "TiVo" it, right? Maybe instead of people with VCR's we could TiVo it and it would be a little easier?

Pavan.

I don't believe you can take in a A/V feed (ie. Anything thats NOT Coax) with a Tivo. Plus, they put DRM on top of anything recorded.

Theres a few things I would do:
1) Record to mini DV tapes. It would take a bunch, but it would be pretty easy. Just plug your mini DV camcorder into the feed and hit record. You can rip and parse the videos later.
2) Use a miniDV cam as a pass through, and use the firewire connection to get the video feed directly into your computer. This will take up alot of hard drive space, so be weary.
3) Use a capture card (preferably one with MPEG2 hardware support, like the Hauppuage cards..) and record straight data to the hard drive. If one really feels adventerous they can do the parsing real time.

Now I believe if you have a good enough computer, you can open a DV stream (very big, like 25 mb/s) and do real time encoding with VLC or somethign similar. I think this is how SOAP does their webcasts. Then, you could save the smaller sized feed to your hard drive.

[Joel J]

I'm still waiting for a response from Alex Burman and Rob2713g, but it looks like week one is all set! This should be awesome.

BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional 	- J. Norris
NASA / VCU Regional 			- Rob2713g, chris31
New Jersey Regional 			- Alex Burman
Pacific Northwest Regional 		- M. Krass
St. Louis Regional 			- Dave Flowerday, hill
Arizona Regional 			- Donut
Bayou Regional				- DeepWater
Brazilian Pilot 			- Manoel
Finger Lakes Regional 			- Koko Ed
Florida Regional 			- SOAP
Great Lakes Regional 			- SAV1337
Los Angeles Regional 			- ayb2
Pittsburgh Regional 			- Noah K.
Wisconsin Regional 			- Kevin K
Boilermaker Regional 			- Mike AA
Chesapeake Regional 			- Alex Burman
Detroit Regional 			- 
Greater Kansas City Regional 		- 
Midwest Regional 			- Dave Flowerday
Peachtree Regional 			- 
Silicon Valley Regional 		- M. Krass
UTC Connecticut Regional 		- 
New York City Regional 			- Noah K.
Boston Regional 			- SOAP
Buckeye Regional 			- Koko Ed
San Diego Regional 			- ayb2
Waterloo Regional 			- J. Norris, SAV1337
GM/Technion Israel Regional 		- 
Colorado Regional 			- 
Davis Sacramento Regional 		- 
Greater Toronto Regional 		- J. Norris, SAV1337
Las Vegas Regional 			- SOAP
Lone Star Regional 			- 
Palmetto Regional 			- 
Philadelphia Regional 			- 
SBPLI Long Island Regional 		- 
West Michigan Regional			- Mike AA, Dave Flowerday

[Kyle Fenton]

I will be recording the matches of the Boston Regional directly to DVD. I will be willing to share it if there is something wrong with the feed.

[ay2b]

[quote=Tom Bottiglieri;585484]I don't believe you can take in a A/V feed (ie. Anything thats NOT Coax) with a Tivo. Plus, they put DRM on top of anything recorded.[quote]

TiVos can record directly from an A/V input, though it's a little tricky to configure. They do not add DRM to their recordings.

[Jonathan Norris]

Reminder: I recomend that everyone who is planning on recording a regional to contact the regional director (or someone running the regional) so that they know you need a hook-up from FIRST. I'm sure it makes the A/V guys job alot easier when they know that you are coming and can prepare a connection for you.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Reminder: I recomend that everyone who is planning on recording a regional to contact the regional director (or someone running the regional) so that they know you need a hook-up from FIRST. I'm sure it makes the A/V guys job alot easier when they know that you are coming and can prepare a connection for you.

Every event I've been to since at least 1997 has had a table set up with lots of A/V feeds for the specific purpose of teams hooking up VCRs or whatever. I'm quite certain this is standard practice at all events.

[Kevin Kolodziej]

Here is what I am planning for Wisconsin:

Recording to 4-5 VHS tapes
After event, hooking up to my Dazzle Capture device and doing real time parsing (can I have the week off of work!?!?), saving files as mpeg-2 in low quality (320x240) - 25mb ish per match.
Putting all parsed video onto a DVD and sending it to SOAP....WHERE? Can someone from SOAP PM me with an address? I don't mind sending it overnight to get it there to it can be up ASAP.

If my laptop isn't needed at the competition, I may directly capture with the Dazzle, and then figure out how to parse later.

Either way, Its either going to be done within a week, or not until after all the regionals are done (going to WI, IN, OH, and WM). My guess is people want these BEFORE Atlanta

[Rob2713g]

Hello,

Team 540 will be recording the NASA/VCU Regional.

[Madison]

I don't know specific details since we've got some folks from Microsoft Research's NetCasting group helping us out with this.

I know that we're planning on capturing raw video from the provided feed and writing it directly to a hard drive. We've got an external capture device and a 750GB drive connected through a laptop running Windows Movie Maker or something. We've tested it and it works just fine. We're expecting to collect something on the order of 250GB of raw video -- is this unreasonable?

After the event, the MSR folks will compress it, at the very least, and maybe even parse it into individual matches. It depends a bit on their schedule of events.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

I don't know specific details since we've got some folks from Microsoft Research's NetCasting group helping us out with this.

I know that we're planning on capturing raw video from the provided feed and writing it directly to a hard drive. We've got an external capture device and a 750GB drive connected through a laptop running Windows Movie Maker or something. We've tested it and it works just fine. We're expecting to collect something on the order of 250GB of raw video -- is this unreasonable?

After the event, the MSR folks will compress it, at the very least, and maybe even parse it into individual matches. It depends a bit on their schedule of events.

Woo. Good old Microsoft.

[Sagar Vyas]

It would be good if someone like SOAP could setup an FTP so people who are recording it can dump the files onto their server. I will be recording the Great Lakes Regional next week and hope to get the files ready as early as a few days later (can't promise ).

Can anyone confirm what kind of output we're getting? (RCA, S-Video, Coax)

Thanks

[Jonathan Norris]

We get a RCA out at the regionals.