Coordinated Regional Video Archiving..

[Joel J]

Originally Posted by M. Krass

We uploaded the last part of SVR matches this morning and they do not work, either, so I don't know if uploading the rest again will make any difference. Perhaps we'll have better luck if we try uploading from outside Microsoft, but we won't know until someone can get the drive from our lab and try it elsewhere.

Is the FTP access set up so that we don't have permission to download from your server? I tried to download the videos via FTP and couldn't do so.

Edited to add: I can download others via FTP, so there's something afoot with our videos or those directories. You were able to download them, however, so I wonder what it is that's making them unavailable to everyone else.

Thanks,

Umm, yea-- the problem was that each of the files uploaded had whitespace before the name. For example, " or_001.wmv", rather than "or_001.wmv". I renamed the files, and everyone should now be able to view them.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

Umm, yea-- the problem was that each of the files uploaded had whitespace before the name. For example, " or_001.wmv", rather than "or_001.wmv". I renamed the files, and everyone should now be able to view them.

I thought that looked odd and yes, now the files all work.

-Mike

[Ellery]

I will have the Buckeye Day 1 matches 1-41 uploaded in the next few days and when I get the remaining matches for day 2 I will get them up as soon as I get them from Ed if he was able to pick a copy up this past weekend at GTR.

[Kevin Sevcik]

LSR Elims and two huge chunks of awards are up. qf1m1 was being a pain last night, so I'll be re-upping it in a bit. This would go a lot faster if someone had a recommendation of a good program to split an MPEG2 into a billion pieces. Only thing I've found that works well is TMPGEnc, but it's a tedious one at a time process.

[Mike AA]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

LSR Elims and two huge chunks of awards are up. qf1m1 was being a pain last night, so I'll be re-upping it in a bit. This would go a lot faster if someone had a recommendation of a good program to split an MPEG2 into a billion pieces. Only thing I've found that works well is TMPGEnc, but it's a tedious one at a time process.

I have been using windows movie maker and it will automatically split the file into "chapters". For each set of 3-4 hours I do at a time I usually get around 700 "chapters".

-Mike

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Ellery

I will have the Buckeye Day 1 matches 1-41 uploaded in the next few days and when I get the remaining matches for day 2 I will get them up as soon as I get them from Ed if he was able to pick a copy up this past weekend at GTR.

Got the rest of the matches from Travis and company(AKA Delphi ELITE) at GTR last weekend (a good excuse to visit the regional). I will try to get them to Ellery ASAP!

[Noah Kleinberg]

Is anyone willing to take the VHS's of Pittsburgh from me in Atlanta to get them on a computer, parse them and upload them? I'd do it myself but I have no way to read the tapes.

[Joel J]

I thought you and Tom B. worked something out. No dice on that?

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/parse)
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/parse)
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 			- (Click_Here) (record/parse)
SBPLI Long Island Regional 		- 
West Michigan Regional			- Mike AA (record/parse), Dave Flowerday (record/parse)

[Noah Kleinberg]

Originally Posted by Joel J.

I thought you and Tom B. worked something out. No dice on that?

Hm I sent him a message a while ago but he didn't respond (and I didn't end up going to the regional where I was going to give them to him), I'll try again...

[LightWaves1636]

These videos are from Team 1583.
Colorado Regional
Preliminary Match:
Team 2250 spears a flying tube from the human player with their flag.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwnkD4pA3OA

Finals Match 1:
No video yet. But this one was exciting. Team 1583 broke down because one of the negative terminals on the Power Distribution Blocks came loose and fell out. They broke down before the match even really get going. Team1636 automatically went onto defense between 2083 and 207 as much as possibe while 1515 would be slowly reloading their hook with a tube from the human player, 555 did as much scoring as possible. The buzzer rang and blue alliance lost 14 to 4.

Finals Match 2:
Red Alliance(207, 1515, and 2083) has won the first one, if the won this one, Blue would have automatically been eliminated. Team 1636 desperately tries to get onto the ramp of 1583 but couldn't because of a black spoiler tube. 1636 pushes and pushes and the spoiler tubes hops off the ramp and 1636 tips over backwards. 15s left and with the Blue alliance crowd thinking it was all over, 555 comes to rescue. Pushing 1636 out of the way and climbing up the ramp of 1583. Winning the match 32 to 34.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF3_Bl0bxHo

Final Match 3:
1515 broke down. 1583 playing mean defense against the red alliance defense so that 555 and 1636 could score like crazy. With well over 35s, 1636 and 555 makes the ramp, 207 is still scoring as much as they can, but it just didn't cut it. 36 to 70.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg9kMwBcruM

[Travis Hoffman]

Apparently Day 1, Matches 1-41 of Buckeye are up on SOAP - thanks to Ellery!

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

[Jonathan Norris]

got the elims of GTR up now, will finish all the matches this weekend hopefully....

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

[Ellery]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

Apparently Day 1, Matches 1-41 of Buckeye are up on SOAP - thanks to Ellery!

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

Well 1 day done, 1 more to go. Thanks Travis for having a working copy of the Buckeye Regional. Now I have to catch up on my homework.

[Doug G]

Ok I've got 60 GB of MPEG 2 video from Davis Regional and am currently parsing it out. I'm confused on how to best save the match videos. If I use straight mpeg2 they're 90 MB each. WMV, 640x480 is 40 MB each. I can get them down to 10-20 MB but the resolution drops to 320x280. I can't use MovieMaker because if freezes when you ask it to load 60 GB of video. I recorded it in MPEG 2 format using a Pinnacle USB thing and their associated program Studio 10.

Any suggestions??

Otherwise I'll be posting it up as 40 MB WMV files. Sorry to eat up your hard drive SOAP.

[Chris Marra]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Ok I've got 60 GB of MPEG 2 video from Davis Regional and am currently parsing it out. I'm confused on how to best save the match videos. If I use straight mpeg2 they're 90 MB each. WMV, 640x480 is 40 MB each. I can get them down to 10-20 MB but the resolution drops to 320x280. I can't use MovieMaker because if freezes when you ask it to load 60 GB of video. I recorded it in MPEG 2 format using a Pinnacle USB thing and their associated program Studio 10.

Any suggestions??

Otherwise I'll be posting it up as 40 MB WMV files. Sorry to eat up your hard drive SOAP.

You can see SOAP's reccomended WME configuration here:
http://soap.circuitrunners.com/2007/2007.wme

However, it might be a pain to have to run every video through WME individually, so I would just use the 40MB matches if I were you. Hard Drives are cheap these days, labor is not.