ELynah Forum

Not sure where the conflict would originate.  If you had the school install the system, the refs check it before the game, and you have the refs making the decision on the goal, I can't see how that's problematic.

To whom does the video operator report (assuming it's his/her responsibility to oversee)?  Is this an athletic department employee?  Or is it the responsibility of the refs to check the equipment before the game to make sure it is working?  In the NFL, the refs check the video replay equipment before every game to ensure it works.

As a member, I'd like to try and run this up the pole to get it done.  It is true that we may not be hearing, "It's all your fault!" in there anytime soon, but there have been times when they have replayed Cornell football games in the Grill.  It seems to me that we can find a way to get this done if there is enough membership interest.  

At the very least, if we can convince the Redcast folks to improve the video quality, what's the worst that happens?  People at home have a better viewing experience?  That's an outcome I'm willing to accept.

[quote krose]I do know how streaming works, and they could easily improve the stream quality by switching to a more modern codec and upping the bitrate.  h.264 (a variant of MPEG4) at 544x368 is approximately 1.2mbps.  This is only a little more than twice the current bitrate, and is something most end users (including most of those on DSL) can support; and is also not mutually exclusive with a lower-bitrate stream for those on <=1mbps DSL.

Doing this would make watching a full-screen or wall-size stream acceptable, if not quite as good as SDTV.  Imagine MLB.tv, only better: if that's acceptable quality to you, then this solution would be at least as good.

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How expensive/practical would this be to do?

I have been corresponding with the events manager of the Cornell Club about trying to get Redcast home feeds of Cornell hockey games broadcast at the Cornell Club (NYC).  She told me that there is a great deal of reticence on the part of the IT manager because the picture/stream is so bad when it is enlarged and projected on to a large flat screen.

My question to the technophiles out there is whether there is a solution to this problem. Any ideas?

My apologies if this has already been explored on this board.