Clarkson video feed tonight

[sah67]

For those who are unaware:

http://www.clarksonathletics.com//Sports/gen/2006/hocbroadcastcentral.asp

[Al DeFlorio]

Maybe we could send Jeremy Hartigan up to Potsdam to see how they do it.::pop::

[Johnny 5]

Yes, I just accessed the Clarkson link & the archived games open fine. So, I'm assuming the live games will, also. And, I can view it on the Mac side of my Wintel MBP laptop using Quicktime. Unlike CSTV, which forces us to use IE on a PC, & even then half the time the feed is down. I've stopped counting the number of times I've had to call CSTV tech support, only to be stuck on hold for 2 full periods. Too bad that I'm paying monthly for the CSTV service, but I listened to the UNH game from their audio feed & watched the St. Lawrence game on their video feed. See a pattern here? There must be a better way.

[billhoward]

[quote  http://www.clarksonathletics.com//Sports/gen/2006/hocbroadcastcentral.aspVideo Streaming of ... Men's and Women's home games ... by the University's student-TV station will be available on the web ... for a free trial period.[/quote]

This is such an odd combination of words in the same paragraph. Has anyone seen that construct used on www.cornellbigred.com?

[mhand06]

nope never have

[Avash]

Sooo... it looks like the video is up already. But when I click on it, it works for exactly 12 seconds (every time) and then cuts out, and I have to click play again. Anyone else having the same problem?

EDIT: Now it's not working at all, although the site does say it gets activated 15 mins before game time. Maybe they were just testing it out or something.

[Trotsky]

It's up now.

[Trotsky]

The Clarkson feed has video insets for stats, too.  Be still my heart.

[Beeeej]

Hard to say whether I'd rather have no video stream at all, or a video stream that feeds about 45 seconds of video and audio per minute like Clarkson's seems to.  That makes it useless after about the first minute without hitting "refresh" - which, each time I hit it, puts me in the dark for about twenty seconds.

I think SLU had the right idea; limit the number of connections, that way you don't spread your resources too thin.

[Trotsky]

[quote Beeeej]Hard to say whether I'd rather have no video stream at all, or a video stream that feeds about 45 seconds of video and audio per minute like Clarkson's seems to.  That makes it useless after about the first minute without hitting "refresh" - which, each time I hit it, puts me in the dark for about twenty seconds.

I think SLU had the right idea; limit the number of connections, that way you don't spread your resources too thin.[/quote]

Mine has been fine throughout (except for a handful of brief freezes and one protracted period filmed through a used condom), but I'm running on a very fast system.

[Al DeFlorio]

I was fine until the last five or so minutes, when it freezes several times a minute.

[Beeeej]

[quote Trotsky][quote Beeeej]Hard to say whether I'd rather have no video stream at all, or a video stream that feeds about 45 seconds of video and audio per minute like Clarkson's seems to.  That makes it useless after about the first minute without hitting "refresh" - which, each time I hit it, puts me in the dark for about twenty seconds.

I think SLU had the right idea; limit the number of connections, that way you don't spread your resources too thin.[/quote]

Mine has been fine throughout (except for a handful of brief freezes and one protracted period filmed through a used condom), but I'm running on a very fast system.[/quote]

I'm not on an obscenely fast system or anything, but it's new enough and fast enough never to have any problems with anybody else's streaming video, and I shut down everything else besides IRC.  I suspect there are just too many connections, and a few are getting better performance than the rest.

[Trotsky]

Try shutting down IRC too.

[Beeeej]

[quote Trotsky]Try shutting down IRC too.[/quote]

Who would I complain to in real-time about the quality of the video?

IRC isn't nearly bandwidth-intensive enough to make the kind of difference I was seeing all game.

[marty]

Based on the archive page as currently linked, it doesn't look promising for a future archive of CU @ CTT.  Only the first five games of the season link to archived files as of this evening.