Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Tom Bottiglieri]

If someone can get me the login info, I can start uploading more UTC matches.

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

If someone can get me the login info, I can start uploading more UTC matches.

I'll PM you the details.

Thanks!!
KA-108

[Kevin Sevcik]

I'm planning on recording the video on site at Lonestar and I could parse it as well. I'll be recording to MPG on a Hauppage WinTV card. Is there a preferred final format for the video?

[Joel J]

BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional 	- J. Norris (record/parse)
NASA / VCU Regional 			- Rob2713g (record), chris31 (record), parsers: Jonathan Norris, Pavan, Tom B.
New Jersey Regional 			- Alex Burman (record/parse)
Pacific Northwest Regional 		- M. Krass (record/parse)
St. Louis Regional 			- Dave Flowerday (record/parse), hill (record)
Arizona Regional 			- Donut (record/parse)
Bayou Regional				- DeepWater (record/parse)
Brazilian Pilot 			- Manoel (record/parse)
Finger Lakes Regional 			- Koko Ed (record), Ellery (parse)
Florida Regional 			- SOAP (record/parse)
Great Lakes Regional 			- SAV1337 (record/parse)
Los Angeles Regional 			- ay2b (record/parse)
Pittsburgh Regional 			- Noah K. (record), Tom B. (parse)
Wisconsin Regional 			- Kevin K (record/parse)
Boilermaker Regional 			- Mike AA (record/parse)
Chesapeake Regional 			- Alex Burman(record)
Detroit Regional 			- 
Greater Kansas City Regional 		- 
Midwest Regional 			- Dave Flowerday (record/parse)
Peachtree Regional 			- 
Silicon Valley Regional 		- M. Krass (record/parse)
UTC Connecticut Regional 		- Art Dutra (record/parse)
New York City Regional 			- Noah K.(record), Tom B. (parse), SOAP (record/parse)
Boston Regional 			- SOAP (record/parse)
Buckeye Regional 			- Koko Ed (record), Ellery (parse)
San Diego Regional 			- ay2b (record/parse)
Waterloo Regional 			- J. Norris (record/parse), SAV1337 (record)
GM/Technion Israel Regional 		- David55 (record)
Colorado Regional 			- 
Davis Sacramento Regional 		- Doug G (record/parse)
Greater Toronto Regional 		- J. Norris (record/parse), SAV1337(record)
Las Vegas Regional 			- SOAP(record/parse)
Lone Star Regional 			- Kevin Sevcik (record/parse)
Palmetto Regional 			- 
Philadelphia Regional 			- 
SBPLI Long Island Regional 		- 
West Michigan Regional			- Mike AA (record/parse), Dave Flowerday (record/parse)

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

I'm planning on recording the video on site at Lonestar and I could parse it as well. I'll be recording to MPG on a Hauppage WinTV card. Is there a preferred final format for the video?

Hi, yes there is.. SOAP has a preference for WMV and the settings file is here: http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/2007.wme

[Mike AA]

I am in process throughout today uploading Boilermaker regional to my server.

video.team2015robotics.com

-Mike
2015

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Hi, yes there is.. SOAP has a preference for WMV and the settings file is here: http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/2007.wme

For some reason, it seems like the SOAP WMVs have broken indexes. I can not encode them straight to Flash Video using FFMPEG, but if I use the Windows Media File Editor to rebuild the index, it will convert to Flash Video.

It's weird, and forces me to batch encode to an intermediary AVI since the Windows Media File Editor won't batch rebuild indexes.

Either way, tons of video from SOAP is going up to The Blue Alliance Match Archive System for online streaming and sort-by-team-ness. Thanks guys! I really miss my high speed connection at school though. 5.5 gigs there would take like an hour, and here it is going to take 8 .

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

For some reason, it seems like the SOAP WMVs have broken indexes. I can not encode them straight to Flash Video using FFMPEG, but if I use the Windows Media File Editor to rebuild the index, it will convert to Flash Video.

It's weird, and forces me to batch encode to an intermediary AVI since the Windows Media File Editor won't batch rebuild indexes.

Either way, tons of video from SOAP is going up to The Blue Alliance Match Archive System for online streaming and sort-by-team-ness. Thanks guys! I really miss my high speed connection at school though. 5.5 gigs there would take like an hour, and here it is going to take 8 .

Hey, I'm glad the SOAP videos are helping you. Your concern with the wmv index is something for SOAP108 to address.

PS: What's the word on the video from NJ? I notice that's still not on the SOAP website..

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

PS: What's the word on the video from NJ? I notice that's still not on the SOAP website..

SOAP has some big Quicktimes of the elims, but I'll push up the WMVs I have to soaphelp. They're not encoded by SOAP standards, but they ought to work fine.

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

SOAP has some big Quicktimes of the elims, but I'll push up the WMVs I have to soaphelp. They're not encoded by SOAP standards, but they ought to work fine.

Yes, I see that.. Ken also put up parsed webcast footage for the quals at UTC (Tom is the one that uploaded the elim videos, however). I think Ken intended for these to be place holders, while footage was being parsed/uploaded by whoever volunteered.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Yes, I see that.. Ken also put up parsed webcast footage for the quals at UTC (Tom is the one that uploaded the elim videos, however). I think Ken intended for these to be place holders, while footage was being parsed/uploaded by whoever volunteered.

I had looked at the matches 1-19 that were posted earlier of UTC, and some were wrong. The scoring system said "match 19", but it didn't correspond to the 19th match indicated by FIRST's online match results. I'm not sure which one is correct...

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Yes, I see that.. Ken also put up parsed webcast footage for the quals at UTC (Tom is the one that uploaded the elim videos, however). I think Ken intended for these to be place holders, while footage was being parsed/uploaded by whoever volunteered.

Yes. Go ahead and overwrite the webcast-captured files.
KA

[soap108]

Originally Posted by Greg Marra

For some reason, it seems like the SOAP WMVs have broken indexes. I can not encode them straight to Flash Video using FFMPEG, but if I use the Windows Media File Editor to rebuild the index, it will convert to Flash Video.

It's weird, and forces me to batch encode to an intermediary AVI since the Windows Media File Editor won't batch rebuild indexes.

Either way, tons of video from SOAP is going up to The Blue Alliance Match Archive System for online streaming and sort-by-team-ness. Thanks guys! I really miss my high speed connection at school though. 5.5 gigs there would take like an hour, and here it is going to take 8 .

Just a guess, but some files were parsed out via asfchop.exe which may not have handled the indexing well.

Could you try a file known to be direct from WME? Such as the NYC matches.

I'm obviously not up to speed on flash and playback b4 full download. Could someone give a brief synopsis? I put a test swf file up at http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/ but it didnt do what I was hoping. This swf was created using SUPER.

Thanks!!
KA-108

[PhilBot]

Please bear with me... As a computer nerd who started in the 70's it takes me a bit to absorb all the latest trends... like video archiving.

But my experience tells me that unless these is a consistant search method to locate these competiton videos, they'll just get lost in the noise of Britney's FIRST drink after rehab.

Has anyone considered how to make these videos stand out? Is there a special keyword that has been assigned to make them easy to locate?

I tried looking on Google for regional videos and could find nothing usefull....

How would a novice like me go about finding the neddle in the haystack if I wanted to locate the official Chesapeake regional videos?

Phil.

And what the heck is SOAP ?

[Madison]

Originally Posted by PhilBot

Please bear with me... As a computer nerd who started in the 70's it takes me a bit to absorb all the latest trends... like video archiving.

But my experience tells me that unless these is a consistant search method to locate these competiton videos, they'll just get lost in the noise of Britney's FIRST drink after rehab.

Has anyone considered how to make these videos stand out? Is there a special keyword that has been assigned to make them easy to locate?

I tried looking on Google for regional videos and could find nothing usefull....

How would a novice like me go about finding the neddle in the haystack if I wanted to locate the official Chesapeake regional videos?

Phil.

And what the heck is SOAP ?

SOAP is "Sigmac@t Opponent Analysis Program," and is, more informally, the nice group of folks who host archived videos of FIRST competitions. They provide the hosting space and bandwidth required to maintain an archive of these matches in a single place.

http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/movies/

It doesn't appear that they have Chesapeake videos available yet.