For the longest time the Internet video broadcast was handled by students - there is no Communications or J-school program at Colgate so these were kids that were "working" for the campus TV station at the time. Several years ago, we plugged the radio feed into the video webcast however the audio quality was hit or miss, most often it was miss so we gave up on that after last year. Currently we have our radio back-up calling the men's games for All-Access and then you heard a student (our women's hockey announcer) on Tuesday night.
That said, I am glad that people enjoyed the video portion of our broadcast - I've been producing most of our events for the last two years. I'm not sure what type of equipment Cornell uses but we employ a NewTek TriCaster which is essentially a do-it-all broadcasting computer that has a built-in switcher and graphics program. Then we have student workers operating cameras and sometimes producing depending on my availability. I know one can broadcast to ICS without a TriCaster (because I don't remember seeing one at Lynah), probably just by using Adobe Flash Media Encoder (or possibly even Windows Media Encoder) on a laptop with several cameras and a board. The feed may not be as crisp but it works all the same. Your feed issues, in terms of it dropping out and being slow, could also be caused by low bandwidth on the campus Internet server; just because the game stream (or multiple streams on some nights) being pushed to ICS is so large.
On a side note, your women's hockey audio should be solid. Your new announcer, Kevin Mooney, called games at Oswego State and we worked together when I was calling games at Cortland.
That said, I am glad that people enjoyed the video portion of our broadcast - I've been producing most of our events for the last two years. I'm not sure what type of equipment Cornell uses but we employ a NewTek TriCaster which is essentially a do-it-all broadcasting computer that has a built-in switcher and graphics program. Then we have student workers operating cameras and sometimes producing depending on my availability. I know one can broadcast to ICS without a TriCaster (because I don't remember seeing one at Lynah), probably just by using Adobe Flash Media Encoder (or possibly even Windows Media Encoder) on a laptop with several cameras and a board. The feed may not be as crisp but it works all the same. Your feed issues, in terms of it dropping out and being slow, could also be caused by low bandwidth on the campus Internet server; just because the game stream (or multiple streams on some nights) being pushed to ICS is so large.
On a side note, your women's hockey audio should be solid. Your new announcer, Kevin Mooney, called games at Oswego State and we worked together when I was calling games at Cortland.
