Live Stream of Game

monkeycage · September 17, 2005

Anyone else using this service? I'm having difficulty with it cutting out. Was wondering if anyone else was using the livestream feed and how it was performing for you.

EagleD · September 18, 2005

Yeah man, I tried. It waslike watching a slide show for the first quarter, then I got kciked off and could not get back on. I suspect it's the old computer I'm using.

monkeycage · September 18, 2005

Yep, I had similar problems. I kept working at it and it started working just in time to watch things get really, really bad. Now, I'm wishing I didn't even have the ability to watch. Thankfully, the cameraman is pretty good about not keeping the camera on the action, so I while I get to hear the train wreck, I don't have to see the actual collision.

THOR · September 18, 2005

How does the crowd look?

monkeycage · September 18, 2005

Well, there was a lot of green being in the pans of the crowd. The stands looked pretty full on the alumni side, but I didn't catch many glimpses of the student side.

monkeycage · September 18, 2005

Final Analysis: Worth the money if you just ache to see Fouts Field in Action. But as far as the value: 3 out of 10.

Basically, the live stream was about as competitive as the game. It cut in and out quite a bit the first half, but by the second half it was going along okay.

Camera work needs a ton of improvement. For instance, they should keep the camera focused on the person carrying the ball. I'm sure this will improve as they gain more experience.

Audio: you get to listen to Hank and George which is always enjoyable. Two quality guys with whom we're all familiar.

Video: not bad, but probably depends on the user/computer. It was decent enough for my purposes.

Biggest frustration: stream was interrupted often and the camera work was attrocious (sp?).

keith · September 18, 2005

Worked well for me. I was wireless to my laptop and hooked the VGA out to the VGA input of a Dell Plasma HDTV. I was expecting to see a live video stream over the Internet and that's pretty much what I got. It looked to me that we were receiving the same video feed that is shown on the "jumbotron."

Keith