Streaming Regionals 2008

[Jonathan Norris]

In the past couple years a few regionals every week have been streamed through NASA by teams. But this year with free services like ustream.tv and stickam that let you stream video very easily I hope we can see more regionals streamed this year.

Hopefully I will be able to stream Waterloo using ustream.tv, and I know the blue alliance guys have some plans of the sort for other regionals. As with recording match footage from the regionals all FIRST events provide an array of video outputs that is a feed off what is being displayed on the main screen, from this all you need is a cheep video capture device (like this). The hard part is finding an internet connection, talk with your regional coordinator and see what you can do. Many of the regionals are held at Universities and talking to the University you may be able to wrangle up an internet connection.

Both services allow you to embed a player in a webpage (like youtube), so hopefully we can figure out some way to embed a player in a forum page, so that can have a central location to watch the stream and talk about the regional.

Who else is willing to stream a regional???

[Thexder]

Brazilian Regional will be streamed, probably by FIRST Brazil.

www.brfirst.org

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Jonathan Norris

Both services allow you to embed a player in a webpage (like youtube), so hopefully we can figure out some way to embed a player in a forum page, so that can have a central location to watch the stream and talk about the regional.

We can put a page on the TBA site that has the embedded player and a chat app. (IRC? AIM? Doesnt matter..)

[Thexder]

IRC, of course!

Which regionals will NASA TV show?

[Jonathan Norris]

I believe NASA TV only shows the Championship and Kickoff... (not too sure), but they also provide online streams of regionals that teams help set up. From my experience last year at Waterloo these can be a major pain to set up properly. Thats why I am suggesting services like ustream.tv that make it as easy as using youtube.

[stevek]

We are hosting 2008 Suffield Shakedown- PreSeason/preShip Scrimmage hosted by/at Suffield High.

SAT Feb 16th 2008:

Team 230- Gaelhawks
Nasa Webcast Landing Page

The Suffield Shakedown is a great event that rivals the size of most regionals and uses an official FIRST Field and has many Referies and utilizes the official FIRST Scoring Systems. So if you want a sneak peak before your first regional (and you cant make it in person) TUNE-IN.

Same links will also be Hosting the CT Regional March 13-15th 2008:

[kjhobin]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

We can put a page on the TBA site that has the embedded player and a chat app. (IRC? AIM? Doesnt matter..)

Doesn't ustream.tv have a built in chat anyway?
(not as cool as IRC but, you really dont need to go through the hassle of setting something else up...)

[Joohoo]

So i know there are some people trying to get their regionals webcasted but does anyone know which ones nasa will be streaming? will they be doing it at all?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Joohoo

So i know there are some people trying to get their regionals webcasted but does anyone know which ones nasa will be streaming? will they be doing it at all?

I'm wondering the same thing. The NASA site for the webcasts says nothing about 2008.

[Dave Flowerday]

Wildstang plans on webcasting the Midwest Regional again this year. Information about it will be available at www.midwestfirst.org during the event.

[Vikesrock]

2175 is investigating webcasting the MN Regional. I'll post back here when we figure out if we will be able to or not.

[Greg Marra]

The Blue Alliance will be webcasting Boston through ustream.tv. We're investigating how to spruce up the stream with overlaid images and other things. If anyone knows how to do this sort of live video mixing (especially if I can do it in software on my computer) please let me know!

[Ricky Q.]

The Wisconsin Regional will be streamed in one fashion or another, stay tuned.

[Scott L.]

I have experience web casting and will try and answer questions you may have.

There is a demo titler available for windows media encoder, not sure what its called. I used a Tricaster pro for the web cast i did. It does a great job and has many features, but is very expensive (~$9000), I borrowed it from a local college for the event I did. I used mostly my own equipment for the event except for the tricaster, audio mixer, cameras, and wireless microphone.

[ShaneP]

Originally Posted by Joohoo

So i know there are some people trying to get their regionals webcasted but does anyone know which ones nasa will be streaming? will they be doing it at all?

Originally Posted by EricH

I'm wondering the same thing. The NASA site for the webcasts says nothing about 2008.

It looks like this will be the page containing NASA's 2008 streams:

http://robotics.nasa.gov/events/2008_frcwebcasts.php