Dartmouth game - no access??

[billhoward]

The feed showing the countdown clock between first and second periods has been rock solid. What are the odds it lasts past the opening faceoff?

[evilnaturedrobot]

if your still seeing that then your frozen.  After about 5 minutes of that I restarted it and now I'm getting a shot of center ice.  Of course, nothing seems to be happeining in that shot, which probably meens that it is also frozen.::rolleyes::

[Rosey]

[quote billhoward]The feed showing the countdown clock between first and second periods has been rock solid. What are the odds it lasts past the opening faceoff?[/quote]
It's got to be a bandwidth issue somewhere between the encoder sitting next to the camera and the entrypoint at CSTV.  There shouldn't be any problems beyond that, certainly not problems that all of us would see.  That would also explain why the video is rock-solid when not much is happening.

Kyle

[evilnaturedrobot]

and, ::crosses fingers, knocks on wood, ect:: it's working for the start of the second period.

[Rosey]

Those of you having problems, try VLC.  There are versions for both Linux and Windows (and maybe Mac... dunno).  I've had better success with this than with anything, including WMP.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Kyle

[Al DeFlorio]

Gametracker thinks it's still 2-0.

[Rita]

I too am on the 5 sec video delay and thankful. I'm mainly listening (at work, where else), so I know when to look up and at the video.

[Scersk '97]

Is it just me?  Am I too suspicious?  Does anyone else think it's strange that we've had such trouble on weekends where there was a basketball broadcast at the same time?

I can just see some boneheaded routing where the hockey feed takes some roundabout path to where the basketball feed is very well connected...

[billhoward]

Maybe Cornell's hockey feed is like electricity in a house with a small fusebox, rather than like the Internet ... and the more people putting a load on by watching the game, you kind of blow a fuse or bring down the grid.

Wonder if there's a Web Streaming for Dummies book we could present to the athletic department.

Too bad Cornell doesn't have, like, say, a respected computer science department that could help out.

[Rosey]

[quote billhoward]Maybe Cornell's hockey feed is like electricity in a house with a small fusebox, rather than like the Internet ... and the more people putting a load on by watching the game, you kind of blow a fuse or bring down the grid. [/quote]
No.  I understand the basics of how the streaming is set up, and there is one feed from Lynah to a central server at CSTV, no matter how many people are watching.

The problem is on that connection.  If I could eliminate the software as a variable (i.e., switch the box with the one from Newman and confirm the problem recurs), I'd run a new ethernet cable from Lynah to CIT.

Kyle

[Tom Lento]

[quote krose]Those of you having problems, try VLC.  There are versions for both Linux and Windows (and maybe Mac... dunno).  I've had better success with this than with anything, including WMP.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Kyle[/quote]

VLC rocks, and is available on Mac OS X, but I didn't think to try it on the feed.

I haven't seen the video at all tonight.  Last time I checked it out was a next-day archive of the Colgate game, and I had *exactly* the same problems you all described, although I attributed that to my connection since someone mentioned getting great throughput (apart from the missing first period).

[mha]

Don't wait until the summer. Any decisions for next year will have been made by then. Start your calls and e-mails to Athletics now. And since you're right about happy people forking over more money, John Webster , the guy who's responsible for the Lynah Rink campaign, needs to hear this. Note that he's NOT responsible for streaming media decisions in any way, so don't take your frustrations out on him.