2009 Regional Webcasts

[pentau]

It looks like the Washington D.C. Regional is being webcast and simulcast, on TV!

According to http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasat..._Breaking.html

February 27, Friday
1 - 6 p.m. - FIRST Regional Competition from the Washington, DC Convention Center - AMES/HQ - (Public and Eduacation Channels)

February 28, Saturday
9 a.m. - 6 p.m. - FIRST Regional Competition from the Washington, DC Convention Center - AMES/HQ - (Public and Eduacation Channels)

[TotalChaos]

I'm currently in contact the Arizona Regional Director trying to figure out if I will be able to get an internet connection..

If it all works out I should be able to webcast it. It'll be here if it all works out!

- Austin

[Justin]

Hi Everyone,

Just curious if things have changed for 2009? It seems to me like in past years there was a fairly comprehensive list of the regionals NASA was going to web cast by this point? I haven't seen that yet this year unless I've missed something, have things changed? The web cast efforts seem a little scattered this year.

Just curious,

Justin

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Justin

Hi Everyone,

Just curious if things have changed for 2009? It seems to me like in past years there was a fairly comprehensive list of the regionals NASA was going to web cast by this point? I haven't seen that yet this year unless I've missed something, have things changed? The web cast efforts seem a little scattered this year.

Just curious,

Justin

Here is the growing list of regionals that are being webcasted: http://www.firstwiki.net/index.php/2009_Webcasts, week one looks to be a busy one already with 5 webcasts going on this week.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday

The guy in charge of the regional is on my team. That's who informed me about the rule. Good news, though - it appears they are getting the extra network drop so I think we're set.

Just curious.. Are you getting a separate line for the webcast feed? Or is it just coming off the same switch at the venue?

We were having that issue preparing for our regional.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Just curious.. Are you getting a separate line for the webcast feed? Or is it just coming off the same switch at the venue?

We were having that issue preparing for our regional.

From what I hear this year is you need a separate internet connection for the webcast this year, depends on the regional I guess. For Waterloo we just connect to the Waterloo University network and use their pipes, for GTR we are likely going to have to set up a separate DSL connection.

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri

Just curious.. Are you getting a separate line for the webcast feed? Or is it just coming off the same switch at the venue?

I'm really not sure to be honest... I'll find out tomorrow I guess. I doubt they're pulling in a new line from some ISP just for the webcast but who knows. I wonder how far away from the local switch they're allowed to join into the same network for FIRST to consider it "separate"...

[FRANK(WGH)]

Originally Posted by Zflash

If anyone knows whether or not the Buckeye regional will be webcasted could you please announce it along with the link ASAP. We have some people here in SC that will not be able to make the trip but would like to watch the action if possible. Thanks

The 2009 Buckeye Regional will be webcast by Delphi E.L.I.T.E. Team 48 with the help of Team 291, CIA. The link is http://live.delphielite.com.

I send a link to the Coordinator if the regional this morning and hope that it will be posted very shortly.

[dcbrown]

Help!

I'm at the BAE regional setting up... everything worked great at home... but (you knew there had to be a but)... at the arena everything works up to the ustream.tv broadcast window. It comes up after broadcast now, status says "broadcast stopped" and the green broadcast button isn't available. The server monitor window *IS* showing the video stream I'm sending... I suspect an arena network issue, but I've no idea if opening ports 1935 for both TCP/UDP in/out and the IRC chat port of 6667 will help. Its odd that the broadcast window shows the video... also the chat window is working. I'm stumped.

Any suggestions? The arena folks have left for the day so any changes will have to wait until tomorrow. Having a suggested shopping list of changes to try could help the process along.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by dcbrown

Help!

I'm at the BAE regional setting up... everything worked great at home... but (you knew there had to be a but)... at the arena everything works up to the ustream.tv broadcast window. It comes up after broadcast now, status says "broadcast stopped" and the green broadcast button isn't available. The server monitor window *IS* showing the video stream I'm sending... I suspect an arena network issue, but I've no idea if opening ports 1935 for both TCP/UDP in/out and the IRC chat port of 6667 will help. Its odd that the broadcast window shows the video... also the chat window is working. I'm stumped.

Any suggestions? The arena folks have left for the day so any changes will have to wait until tomorrow. Having a suggested shopping list of changes to try could help the process along.

Sounds to me like connection issues, if you are seeing the video stream then it is all working on your end, but the video isn't getting out to the ustream.tv servers. Could be firewall issues or port issues (not sure about this), read through ustream.tv's help documentation and see what they say.

[Justin]

I'm not really sure why you would need to open inbound ports. I was under the impression that the whole idea of ustream.tv was to send video out to them so you didn't have to open ports and get into that mess. I would say make sure you are broadcasting against the right show. Also make sure that you have the video and audio source set right in the ustream console. In theory of course if you are seeing video on the server monitor then video is making it to ustream which would lead me to believe that it is something to do with the way the show is setup on the ustream side of things.

Sorry for not being able to be more specific but maybe something there will help. Good Luck.

Justin

[dcbrown]

I setup a new channel for testing just in case - same issue.

I then dropped out of FME/push mode and used ustream's lower quality pull mode -- that works. But it means I can use the video switcher software because although FME recognizes it, ustream pull doesn't. Its on the menu, but selecting doesn't bring up any picture.

So, my guess is some type of incoming port issues since the vid stream appears in the ustream monitor window. It must not be able to verify the stream or some such and so refuses to broadcast it. Just my wag at this point.

[Jonathan Norris]

Originally Posted by dcbrown

I setup a new channel for testing just in case - same issue.

I then dropped out of FME/push mode and used ustream's lower quality pull mode -- that works. But it means I can use the video switcher software because although FME recognizes it, ustream pull doesn't. Its on the menu, but selecting doesn't bring up any picture.

So, my guess is some type of incoming port issues since the vid stream appears in the ustream monitor window. It must not be able to verify the stream or some such and so refuses to broadcast it. Just my wag at this point.

Have you tried Stickam? Its basically the same thing as Ustream.tv

Not really sure what FME is, sounds like you are trying some switching software... have you tried without that? give us more details about your set-up so we can be of more help.

[Ellery]

The Finger Lakes Regional committee is still working this to see if they can do it this year. Last year it was broadcast Live over Time Warner cable TV on the education Access channel. The main issue I was told was they can probably get a line through RIT but that needs to go through a server externally to get the proper streaming bandwidth for a webcast. I'll let you know if anything comes up between now and next week. I used to post matches after we get it digitally recorded and clipped.

[Dan Richardson]

Does anyone know if ustreamed regionals can be watched from the ustream app on the iPhone?