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???