Disclaimer - We’re webcasting n00bs - we make no promises! Be happy with a frozen, blurry image of something that resembles your robot, cuz it’s better than nothin’, ain’t it?
For those constructive feedbackers out there, please post here if you see any weirdness going on Friday and Saturday. We’ll be setting up and testing early tomorrow - you may be able to check in and see stuff going on periodically. Vid will be taken from the main FIRST feed.
Thanks so much to Carol Galica and the Buckeye Regional Committee for providing Internet access for the webcast.
I’m currently in Saltillo, Mexico, and I just checked out a test feed broadcasting from Warren, OH using our capture hardware on a relatively puny Road Runner Lite connection. Looked great. It was a DV cam instead of the analog field feed, but it seems we’ll be business barring any major setbacks.
The feed will be fine. We’ve got a crack commando team behind the scenes. We [should] have a backup system there Friday and Saturday, but I don’t anticipate it being there, nor needing it.
Again, as Travis stated, much thanks to Carol Galica, the Regional Committee, and Cleveland State University for help making this possible. Because, without internet, I don’t think it would’ve been too successful.
Any chance you’ll have an idea when the feed will be available to the public? I currently have a “disconnected (security)” output in the white space at the bottom of the page. I’m not sure if it’s work blocking it or web browser settings or if the feed isn’t up yet.
We didn’t start matches until 1pm, some hardware issues field-side. Also a few network sputters which caused the webcast to not broadcast. It should be up now, let me know if not.
If they’re still having problems tomorrow, I’m sure there’s more than enough programming/etc. talent at this regional to make a new competition controller system that would work well enough…
I’ve been told by the “in-the-know” that Buckeye got a brand new field that’s getting pressed into duty this week due to the volume of events. Boo to being guinea pigs. :o
Hopefully some magic happened last evening and they kick-started the field into functioning. I wonder if they tried physically threatening it with a large persuasive blunt object yet.
Has anyone had probelms with ustream.tv’s server client freezing before it’s fully started? I seem to be having this problem alot and I need a way to get it running.
I got home just in time to catch the awards… webcast looked good, sound a bit off… slight distortion on the higher end of the freqs. But other than that seemed to work good.
Great first try at the webcasting bit… We’ll have to try it at FLR next year if things work out well. Currently we have it broadcast over Cable. Is anyone archiving the Buckeye matches?
