Match Recording Idea

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Originally Posted by Tanner

How exactly did you try to get the start/stop signals? I know it'd be hard to do that without any official signal from the FMS (which would be uber-nice and make everything easy).

It'd be really nice if the FMS set up a server that teams could plug into if they wished and query for whatever information they wanted - teams, ranking, matches, or current matches.

-Tanner

Historically the people who make decisions about the FMS have been pretty conservative with allowing people to access their data stores. Remember SunDial? There's a reason it doesn't exist anymore, and it has everything to do with the FMS.

From the other point of view, if you look at how much effort it would take to securely open up the FMS to outsiders vs. the amount of people who would take advantage of it, it doesn't make sense to sink the time and money into it. Unfortunately, that small subset of people's usage of such a system would have broad implications for the program. (TBA's millions of page views per season tends to agree with me)

Right now it really seems like the best way to do this is with one of those Pinnacle video recording things, or using VLC + some scripting (How TBA archives Boston every year).