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| 72hrpartyanimal |
anyone ever hear of it?
any thoughts or ideas on it? |
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| MikeLord |
| yes... super awesome to watched ppv sports |
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| DaveT |
a site that started with a guy named justin who had a camera on him 24x7. He alwayus had his camera on him and his webcasting stuff in his backpack. We interviewed him at my old job about what he was doing before justin.tv grew into a company.
They got smoe capital money a few years ago and started up as a full company to what it is now. They developed some technology which, at the time, made their costs extremely cheap (in terms of streaming live video). It was something like less than 1/10th the cost most companies end up paying when it comes to streaming live content. (I remember all this because I specialized in live webcasts at my old job so of course the company interested me....basically wanted their technology lol)
Believe their office is on Townsend St in SF, but I don't remember.
I knew a dude who used to work there, but he left. Haven't talked to him in some time.
Easy to use site that lives the webcaster a lot of options...so if you are a beginner it's easy, if you are more experienced and understand bitrates and external encoders, you can use Adobe Flash Live Media encoder with them and set your settingfs yourself.
And yes, it's awesome for PPV events. I also use it for sports since west coast teams suck donkey nuts. There are sites out there that link you to pages on justin.tv tow watch all this stuff. And since it's purely flash, you are only a few seconds behind the actually TV broadcast (vs Windows Media streaming which would be 30 seconds to a few minutes behind). It's great.
Another site like it is ustream.tv |
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| Nerologic |
| quote: | Originally posted by MikeLord
yes... super awesome to watched ppv sports |
I am streaming the SNF game right now.
:toothless |
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| djjoshuaallen |
| I use it to watch laker games in class or at work. thanks justin |
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| 72hrpartyanimal |
so you just stream stuff? you get a camera and film yourself, the television or anything for other people to watch?
as for ppv events, you just point the camera towards your tv and and BAM, all over the interet? |
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| Jim Carson |
| quote: | Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
so you just stream stuff? you get a camera and film yourself, the television or anything for other people to watch?
as for ppv events, you just point the camera towards your tv and and BAM, all over the interet? |
that's the way you do it son!!! |
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| DaveT |
| quote: | Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal
so you just stream stuff? you get a camera and film yourself, the television or anything for other people to watch?
as for ppv events, you just point the camera towards your tv and and BAM, all over the interet? |
You can do the camera and film yourself...that's what it's for.
For PPV events or other broadcast events, sometimes t's off a camera, but 99% of the time it's direct-feed. Getting a capture device to go straight from your cable/satellite box is inexpensive. Hell, a lot of times you can juse use a DV Video camera that has video-in on it...just hook your box through the DV Video camera and capture it through firewire on your PC. Some live events are shut down (because it's obviouslyl illegal) which is why it's usually best tofind a link through a 3rd party site..cause they will update the link when a steram is back up at a different URL (ie. under a different justin.tv username) |
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| bigperf |
started using it last month after davet referred to it in the NCAA football thread. was able to catch Texas Vs Mizzou when ABC was showing USC instead. Some people have feeds in HD quality straight from their direct tv, so i watch one game on my computer monitor and i have one less channel to have to change between.
saw the miami game yest on it :-)
caught the miami/NE on his stream today and watch arizon/chicago on tv. and in the afternoon found Carolina vs Saints so watched that online while Giants/Chargers was on tv.
no luck with boxing or ufc pay per views yet...you click on the screen and then the chat will show you all sorts of websites that supposedly have the event, but its mostly spam/trojan horses. |
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| DaveT |
Just bookmark these sites.
Also, find and install "sopcast" because some thigns require that (it's a simple application for streaming video...uses windows media player in the ned)
http://www.rajangan.net/
http://www.channelsurfing.net/
They update their schedules on gamedays and provide feeds of just about everything major in sports. Most of the time it links you to justin.tv, but sometimes sopcast or ustream.
Also a few stations that just play movies on there. :p |
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| MelBeat |
| They're great for international soccer games too. |
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| Kismet7 |
| quote: | Originally posted by MelBeat
They're great for international soccer games too. |
Thanks for reminding me, cant wait for Worldcup 2010, and just knowing its around the corner makes me happy all over again. :D |
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