GTR Webcast

[Steve W]

I just reposted the links because I also got directed to the wrong place. It seems to go to the right place now.

[Phyrxes]

I can now access the site and get the option to view the clips but they don't begin streaming when I select them.

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Phyrxes

I can now access the site and get the option to view the clips but they don't begin streaming when I select them.

Did you install the software?

[Vikesrock]

Just an FYI to those trying to test these links, I had to use IE to access them not Firefox. You also have to click the message to install Silverlight if you do not already have it.


After taking care of those 2 things it worked fine for me here in MN.

[Phyrxes]

Yes after installing the software and trying it with Firefox and IE, though it may be having issue with the school system's proxy.

Edit: I'll check it when I get home since it appears our proxy is having issues.

[Nawaid Ladak]

great to hear this news, this is the regional taht i look forward to on webcasts for the past couple of years

just a few quick questions

1. Will the music be faded out like last yer's webcast

2. Will this be broadcasted at all on the actual Canadian Discovery TV channel, and if so, will it be in HD?

3. any chance more teams or indivisuals can get together from the US and try to do something liek this for some of the US regionals? That would be really nice,

I would love a color comintator, unfortunitly, it probally will not be Karthik (in my opinion, the John Madden or Dick Vitael of FIRST Announcing and Analisys). because he will be busy being the MC as far as i know

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

1. Will the music be faded out like last yer's webcast

2. Will this be broadcasted at all on the actual Canadian Discovery TV channel, and if so, will it be in HD?

1. I think so. I think Steve said in last year's thread that the music was faded out because Discovery doesn't have a license to rebroadcast it as a for-profit corporation, whereas NASA can rebroadcast it via their webcasts. The music we heard was background picked up by the camera's mic, while on the NASA broadcasts it is directly fed into the webcast.

2. Substantial amounts of highlights and background have found their way onto daily planet in the past (they had a big follow-along piece with 188 in 2006), but actual live coverage isn't likely.

For HD, I proposed last year that one team find an HD camcorder, place it so it can see an entire field, record every match, and torrent the whole thing in a compressed format afterwards. Many teams without cameras of their own would probably appreciate this.

[burkey_turkey]

I'm getting it just fine in central VA.

EDIT: Whoops, thats redundant. my bad.

[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

[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.

[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

[Tottanka]

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

[Phyrxes]

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