GTR Webcast

[GaryVoshol]

I can get the links in Detroit now too.

[Steve W]

Folks, if I could get you to test again if you were not able to receive before. Please note the message below and any help would be welcome:

Hi Steve;

Is it possible for us to find out the IP addresses of the folks that are being wrongfully geoblocked? Our video guy Telly says “I am pretty sure this is something that gets dealt with on a per IP address basis. ” I.e. this hopefully is only a few people having trouble and not indicative of the web world at large. Anyway, that info would help us guarantee we’re offering unblocked video on our end,

Peter

[AcesPease]

Works for me. I clicked the picture of my team's robot and after installing the right plug in the stream played without a hitch

[Kevin Sevcik]

For those that didn't catch my earlier post, you can get your IP by running a trace route to some known website. Probably hitting the watch.discoverychannel.ca site would be most useful. To run a traceroute, open a command shell by hitting your start button, clicking on "run" and then typing "cmd" for XP/2000 or "command" for anyone still running 98. In the command shell you'd type:

tracert watch.discoverychannel.ca

After you hit enter it prints out the path from your computer to the website. Your actual IP that's exposed to the world is likely the first with some sort of name on the right side, but copying the first 4-5 lines of the trace is pretty much guaranteed to get your IP address unless you're in some huge highly layered corporate network or are hiding from the authorities behind several proxy servers. In which case you stopped reading at about the second sentence.

Also, I'm blithely assuming that the linux users out there know how to do this already.

[Steve W]

You will notice that I have added an application to my signature to help you find out your IP and provider. I hope this helps.

[Tottanka]

it's even working for me now, here in Israel

[Phyrxes]

Works fine on my DSL at home and the school systems network.

[Steve W]

I have a lot of people that now can receive the links. This is a last chance to check. If all goes well then Discovery Channel will be broadcasting GTR for all the world to see.

[Pat McCarthy]

Is this year's event going to be available to watch from the US live? And if so, Discovery Canada is going to need to get us a link for this year's material. The link on the NASA webcast page has a geolock on it.

Edit: I went to discovery.ca and found this: http://www.discoverychannel.ca/shows....aspx?sid=7826
Looks like the webcast starts tomorrow at 9am!

[Steve W]

I have just spoken with the Discovery Channel people and they will be checking on the geolock. We may have been given the wrong URL but I now have what I believe is the correct one. I was told that they may do some streaming today once set up. Please check this URL and let me know if it works:

http://www.ctvdigital.com/discovery/first/player.html

[Pat McCarthy]

It is working here in Grand Rapids, Mi! Well, I can get to the webpage and the advertisement plays then nothing else in the player, but I assume that's fine since the webcast is supposed to start tomorrow.

[Starke]

Originally Posted by Pat McCarthy

It is working here in Grand Rapids, Mi! Well, I can get to the webpage and the advertisement plays then nothing else in the player, but I assume that's fine since the webcast is supposed to start tomorrow.

Same here for me in Rochester, NY.

[Bongle]

The main discovery page says it starts at 9am EST, yet it is 9:30 and they are still playing info about the lunar eclipse

[TD78]

Originally Posted by Steve W

I have just spoken with the Discovery Channel people and they will be checking on the geolock. We may have been given the wrong URL but I now have what I believe is the correct one. I was told that they may do some streaming today once set up. Please check this URL and let me know if it works:

http://www.ctvdigital.com/discovery/first/player.html

Works in Rhode Island!

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Bongle

The main discovery page says it starts at 9am EST, yet it is 9:30 and they are still playing info about the lunar eclipse

Nevermind, works in internet explorer.

PS, I wrote a gameday-like thingy:
http://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/~ahare/first.html