Feedback needed for the Streaming for qualifying - Page 2

dj choc ice · 18 Mar 2011, 20:08 (Ref:2848446)

stream is very jittery, audio is fine but it's jittery and the frame rate is crap. But, it's better than nothing, what I'd like to know is why the race isn't on motors this year?

porsche91722 · 18 Mar 2011, 20:09 (Ref:2848449)

Everything was ok in early part of qualifying (GT and P1/P2) They lost the plot in the latter stages though. Hope it's all good for race day.

JAG · 18 Mar 2011, 20:14 (Ref:2848457)

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Originally Posted by dj choc ice

stream is very jittery, audio is fine but it's jittery and the frame rate is crap. But, it's better than nothing, what I'd like to know is why the race isn't on motors this year?

ILMC is on Eurosport, Sebring is on the Player.

NightStalk3r · 18 Mar 2011, 20:15 (Ref:2848458)

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Originally Posted by Simmi

Wow yeah that was as if I was being sucked in to the matrix there. Stream is destroyed currently like someone is trying to tune an old tv.

Same for me with that noise, what made it worse was you had to turn your pc volume up stupidly high in the first place to hear the audio...

Had to throw my headset on the floor a bit quick and my ears are still ringing!

dj choc ice · 18 Mar 2011, 20:16 (Ref:2848460)

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Originally Posted by JAG

ILMC is on Eurosport, Sebring is on the Player.

What about the rest of the ALMS this year then? will motors not be showing it?

NightStalk3r · 18 Mar 2011, 20:18 (Ref:2848461)

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Originally Posted by dj choc ice

What about the rest of the ALMS this year then? will motors not be showing it?

Dont look like it.

AGD · 18 Mar 2011, 20:19 (Ref:2848462)

No issues with ESPN3 throughout the qualifying session. The problems you guys are mentioning must be with the ALMS website stream. I can only imagine that things will be worse tomorrow on the ALMS website stream with the extra demand, but I'm guessing you all will report your findings tomorrow. As for me, I'll have to watch the ABC highlights since I don't have ESPN3 at home! Oh well.

Simmi · 18 Mar 2011, 20:26 (Ref:2848468)

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

Same for me with that noise, what made it worse was you had to turn your pc volume up stupidly high in the first place to hear the audio...

Had to throw my headset on the floor a bit quick and my ears are still ringing!

Yeah I just remembered I had my PC up full whack too. And as for your ears, people have sued for less! Nah hopefully that's a few teething troubles out of the way and they will have a relatively smooth race.

One thing I would be interested in - were the two pauses + godawful sound present on the ESPN3 feed too? - OK AGD confirmed.

Purist · 18 Mar 2011, 20:29 (Ref:2848469)

I had two freezes with the video once I got it going (just as the chequers came out on the GT class, and right as the GTCs started rolling). Sound kept going like a champ throughout. I didn't find it to be too quiet, but then, I'm running off of external speakers with my iMac, so I have a bit more flexibility there I suppose.

Framefrate could have been a bit better, but I cannot see terribly well compared to those with 20/20, so it didn't bother me. Also, I don't want things cranked up too high, so that the stream is beyond the bandwidth I have here. However, the FIA GT1 streams generally ran fine for me last year, so there is probably some room to beef things up without blowing me away.

The biggest thing is that the link could REALLY do to be more conspicuous on the ALMS homepage. I completely missed the tiny blue print for the link that was in the middle of the page between umpteen other things 3 or 4 times before I finally picked it out.

NightStalk3r · 18 Mar 2011, 20:31 (Ref:2848473)

I had to sit at least 7 feet away from my 24" monitor to make the stream look ok in fullscreen, if it isnt better for the race i shant bother playing it on my tv.

Mecatech · 18 Mar 2011, 20:34 (Ref:2848479)

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Originally Posted by Pandamasque

ALMS site stream -> PC -> 32" TV. Audio is great but I had to turn the stereo almost on max, it's too quiet. The video frame rate could be higher. Otherwise it's fine.

http://www.americanlemans.com/primary1.php?cat=live

Thanks!

I was watching in Le Mans, France and quality was good. I had two problems though that may or may not be due to the source:

Max volume was too low
Lost the feed twice (probably due to my internet connection)

Tom87 · 18 Mar 2011, 20:39 (Ref:2848482)

ALMS.com:

- Stream very quiet
- Dropped out a few times
- Both audio and video a little jittery - seemed to be a lack of bandwidth
- Low FPS

Despite these problems, it's far better than nothing - thanks!

sceptic · 18 Mar 2011, 20:40 (Ref:2848484)

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Originally Posted by NightStalk3r

I had to sit at least 7 feet away from my 24" monitor to make the stream look ok in fullscreen, if it isnt better for the race i shant bother playing it on my tv.

You should be sitting 6 feet away from a screen that size anyway, so an extra foot shouldn't make too much difference. (The optimum position for viewing a TV for someone with average eyesight is at a distance of three times the screen width).

Pandamasque · 18 Mar 2011, 20:46 (Ref:2848491)

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Originally Posted by Mecatech

Thanks!

I was watching in Le Mans, France and quality was good. I had two problems though that may or may not be due to the source:

Max volume was too low
Lost the feed twice (probably due to my internet connection)

Looks like it was the same for everyone.

The Badger · 18 Mar 2011, 21:13 (Ref:2848500)

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Originally Posted by Tom87

ALMS.com:

- Dropped out a few times
- Both audio and video a little jittery - seemed to be a lack of bandwidth
- Low FPS

Despite these problems, it's far better than nothing - thanks!

Volume was ok ...... but the above 3 .

Thanks for the feed ..... im happy to have it at all .

DistortedSmile · 18 Mar 2011, 21:28 (Ref:2848506)

Hello, been lurking this forum for a couple of months, just finally decided to register, anyway I think the stream quality was really poor (It died on me a couple of times) and although my Internet connection is not the best I never had any problems when watching something like FIA GT. By the way if anyone here is from Latin-America, you should know that the latin-american Speed channel will be broadcasting most of the race tomorrow live on TV.

Fogelhund · 18 Mar 2011, 21:51 (Ref:2848509)

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Originally Posted by DistortedSmile

By the way if anyone here is from Latin-America, you should know that the latin-american Speed channel will be broadcasting most of the race tomorrow live on TV.

That is full of all kinds of win.

The only place to get it live on actual TV is Latin America.

**joeb** · 19 Mar 2011, 00:47 (Ref:2848578)

One thing to keep in mind about the espn3 stream is that their player automatically adjusts the video quality based on the bandwith you have. The way to tell how good your quality is, is by looking in the lower right hand portion of the screen, and there are little blue boxes, I think 5 is the best quality. I mostly had 4 today which was ok.

Edit: I just watched the q'ing replay with pc hooked up to 42" lcd, and if I sat back on the couch the quality was quite good, but still had the low fps which was noticeable.

Captain Spyro · 19 Mar 2011, 01:20 (Ref:2848598)

I missed the live stream thanks to work, but I did watch the full replay of qualifying. The video, while SOMEWHAT pixelated, looked quite beautiful and the sound was top notch.

This was on ESPN3. Thank you Suddenlink!

broadrun96 · 19 Mar 2011, 01:54 (Ref:2848611)

Watchin the qualifying right now and think the picture might be better than last year's on comcast. Watching it on ESPN3 through my 360 on a 46" plasma and quality is great on Verizon DSL. If tomorrow's feed runs this well it will be better than Speed HD on Comcast was last year and the price is a LOT better.

broadrun96 · 19 Mar 2011, 02:51 (Ref:2848622)

Would add that I'd like to see them add the chassis/engine and lap time to the driver name pop up during qualifying. I could hear them get excited about the time, but I was not watching T&S and so often did not know what the time actually was.

cdsvg · 19 Mar 2011, 03:46 (Ref:2848631)

Is the qualifying replay up yet on the ALMS site? I cant find it.

profec291 · 19 Mar 2011, 05:05 (Ref:2848647)

For those of you viewing on espn3 that are having a hard time looking at the feed on a large screen (If I may suggest), try it this way, view the feed in standard view (not full screen), and have the timing screen on the other half of the screen.

JAG · 19 Mar 2011, 12:36 (Ref:2848777)

Seen some screenshots of the ESPN3 stream and the quality is superb compared to ALMS.com.

Simmi · 19 Mar 2011, 12:43 (Ref:2848783)

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Originally Posted by JAG

Seen some screenshots of the ESPN3 stream and the quality is superb compared to ALMS.com.

So that's at least two things that Scott Atherton said in his heartfelt piece to camera that aren't true.

1) He said it would be the same feed, and 2) that anyone who didn't have ESPN3 could access it.

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