Webcasting and Recording
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Important Notes
Make sure you talk to the regional organizers as early as possible. Internet is generally not available at the regionals except through the regional coordinators. Additionally, make sure you will have space near the video connection for a computer or two.
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Things You'll Need
- Connection to a video source
- Some type of video capture device (see below)
- Fairly high speed internet connection for webcasting
- Plenty of hard drive space for archiving How much?
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Video Capture Devices
Eforcity USB2.0 Video Capture - StevenB is using one of these, and it appears to work well. It's some no-brand thing from China.
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Hosting the Webcast
ustream.tv is a very simple way to host your webcast.
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Archiving Video
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Formats and Codecs
From Jonathan Norris:
Format: .mov or .mp4 (.h264 or MPG4)
Resoultion: 640X480 VGA
Video Bit Rate: 1024kbps
Audio Bit Rate: 128kbps Stereo
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Naming Conventions
From Team 108
General Naming Rules
- Two or three character event abbreviation in lowercase, e.g. "fl"
- Underscore, "_"
- Then one of the following:
- Qualification: Use THREE digits, "001", "047", "108".
- Elimination: Use "qf4m2", "sf2m1", "fm3"
- Awards: Use "award_" + AwardDescription.
- Opening: Use "openingremarks_" + "friday" or "saturday".
- Closing: Use "closingremarks_" + "friday" or "saturday".
- Else: any string that does not begin with "qf", "sf", "fm", or a digit.
- ".wmv" (or whatever format extension you encoded, hopefully windows media)
Notes:
- Always use lowercase, please.
- No spaces in a filename, please.
- Sometimes a match gets replayed- name the one that counts in the standings as "fl_001.wmv". The one(s) that do NOT count, "fl_001bad1.wmv", "fl_001bad2.wmv", etc...
Abbreviations are as follows:
- Week 1
- BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional NH
- Midwest Regional IL
- New Jersey Regional NJ
- Pacific Northwest Regional OR
- St. Louis Regional MO
- Week 2
- Arizona Regional AZ
- Finger Lakes Regional ROC
- Greater Kansas City Regional KC
- NASA / VCU Regional VA
- San Diego Regional SDC
- Week 3
- Boilermaker Regional IN
- Chesapeake Regional MD
- UTC Connecticut Regional CT
- Detroit Regional DT
- Florida Regional FL
- Peachtree Regional GA
- Pittsburgh Regional PIT
- Silicon Valley Regional SJ
- Wisconsin Regional WI
- Brazilian Regional BR
- Week 4
- Buckeye Regional OH
- Lone Star Regional TX
- Los Angeles Regional CA
- Microsoft Seattle Regional WA
- Oklahoma City Regional OK
- Sacramento Regional SAC
- Waterloo Regional WAT
- West Michigan Regional MI
- Israel Regional IS
- Week 5
- Bayou Regional LA
- Boston Regional MA
- Colorado Regional CO
- Great Lakes Regional GL
- Greater Toronto Regional ON
- Hawaii Regional HI
- Las Vegas Regional NV
- Minnesota Regional MN
- Palmetto Regional SC
- Philadelphia Regional PA
- SBPLI Long Island Regional LI
- New York City Regional NY
