Live Video Stream Tonight

[joshdifabio]

I was going to post this in the Leagues & Events sub-forum, but this could be interesting to quite a lot of people and probably wouldn't be seen much in there.

Tonight is the final round in the third season of the Vixen Challenge (http://www.vixenchallenge.co.uk/). The whole round will be viewable online on a video stream hosted by fireball, who some of you may know from OLFSL.

The round will consist of qualifying, running from 1915-1945 BST, a 15 minute sprint race, starting at approximately 1955 BST and a 45 minute feature race, starting at around 2020 BST.

We will be racing at FE Gold in the Formula XR, and if the rest of the season is anything to go by, there should be some interesting battles throughout the field.

This could be a good opportunity for those of you who like watching OLFSL to check out the new video codec and see what you think of it.

If you want to watch the feed, please check fireball's simple instructions to get the correct codec etc here (http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?p=217950#post217950).

I will add a link to the stream later on, qualifying will start in around 3hrs 45mins from now.

Edit: here (http://www.timeanddate.com/counters/customcounter.html?day=19&month=09&year=2006&hour=18&min=15) is a countdown to qualifying

Stream will be up at around 1830 UTC / 1930 BST / 2030 CEST, the link will be http://87.117.194.93:8020/.

[GabbO]

Well, bot only if we CAN race tonight :)
*hoping that the Main Server gets OK till then*

[joshdifabio]

Yeah I'm kinda presuming that the master server will be up, obviously the feed won't be available if we aren't racing though :).

Josh

[Stew2000]

So I've installed the codec. now how "would" I watch it in winamp?
I wanna see how good people can drive :)

[filur]

So I've installed the codec. now how "would" I watch it in winamp?
I wanna see how good people can drive :)

There will be a link available pointing to a winamp playlist containing the stream, you could also paste the stream address into Winamp's "Open URL" box (CTRL-L).

[PLAYLIFE]

There will be a link available pointing to a winamp playlist containing the stream, you could also paste the stream address into Winamp's "Open URL" box (CTRL-L).

Where? On the forum or on the website?

[Ch!p]

I think in the forum... we will see in 20 minutes..

[joshdifabio]

I'll post a link here :)

[joshdifabio]

Ok the stream will be online in around 25 minutes. That means the first 15 mins of qualifying will be missed, but that shouldn't be too exciting anyway. The last 15 mins of quali and the whole of the two races should be shown.

The link will be http://87.117.194.93:8020/ (then click "listen" - even though it's video)

Thanks, Josh

[LorenzoN1]

I hear you loud and clear ;)

[joshdifabio]

Its been up for about 5 minutes by the way, enjoy!

During qualifying you can view the live tracker to see the positions: http://www.live-tracker.co.uk

[bigj6230]

i hear you loud and clear but no video...i expect you know what your doing mate so i wont make a nasty post :D

btw whos doing the commentary because I RECOGNISE THAT VOICE ! !:nod:

[Stew2000]

I'm not getting any sound or video. but then again it's my first try with this codec. :D

[FRED]

Got both audio and video here:thumb:

[Blues]

It work just fine with http://www.videolan.org/vlc

[LorenzoN1]

BigJ6230 and Stew2000 did you install everything right?

I like the commentary, its good

[zeugnimod]

btw whos doing the commentary because I RECOGNISE THAT VOICE ! !:nod:

Its fireball.
Hes also doing great commentary for OLFSL.

[ebola]

Using VLC player and hey this is good stuff :) :)

[rediske]

nice commentary there! :D

tried with winamp, didn't work! vlc is fine! :up:

is there an irc channel as well?

[nutty boy]

I can't get video.

[ebola]

I can't get video.

er codec!!!!!!

[nutty boy]

What

[ebola]

nice commentary there! :D

tried with winamp, didn't work! vlc is fine! :up:

is there an irc channel as well?

does your vlc keep crashing?

[rediske]

not yet... I have v0.8.5 if that might help you

[ebola]

ive just got latest i'll see how that goes. Nutty if you havent got video then you need to get the codec read the beginning!!

Is it ridiculously laggy for everyone else?

[Stew2000]

I'm wathcing it with VLC.
Excellent commentary :thumb:

and it is a bit laggy

[rediske]

very, very nice commentary! very enthusiastic even in the 'not so important' backfield battles! :up:

edit: bit laggy,yes...

[Stew2000]

will we be able to download it later so we can watch it without lag?

[Cue-Ball]

I'm trying to watch but can't get it to work.

Open stream here:
Server 1 (http://87.117.194.93:8020/listen.pls)
offline

Server 2 (http://87.117.194.93:8025/listen.pls)
offline

Server 3 (http://87.117.194.93:8030/listen.pls)
offline


Looks like all the servers are offline. I'm trying to use VLC or Media Player Classic but can't even get a stream to open.

edit: got it working now. apparently VLC wasn't associated with .pls files. I'm running off server #1 which seems to be struggling for bandwidth (increasing VLCs cache helped) and #2/#3 both are passworded. :(

[zeugnimod]

It said for me, that its offline, too. But I cliked it anyway, and it worked. But I have this x264 codec installed, dont know, if its because of this.


The commentary is great as always. Really like it, when fireball goes crazy, everytime someone spins or crashes. :D

[rediske]

is there an official irc channel? :shrug:

edit: thanks for the GREAT coverage!

[joshdifabio]

I hope you all enjoyed it, you can see race results and seasons standings etc at http://www.vixenchallenge.co.uk. Races didn't go well for me but i just about hung onto the championship anyway. Incase any of you are wondering, misan ran out of fuel with 2 corners to go in the feature after leading the whole race, hence prophet winning.

[zeugnimod]

That was great and very entertaining coverage and racing. Running out of fuel 2 corners before the finish after dominating the whole race, omg. :D

And the lag got better towrds the end, was very fluent then except the disconnections from the server. :(

[Stew2000]

I enjoyed the parts I saw :P
Excellent Commentary too :D

[AndRand]

please announce the event one day ahead (some ppl dont check forum every couple of hours :shrug: :)) or maybe there would be a afterwards coverage?

[DethMag]

Does anyone have a recording of the coverage at all (if possible)? As it'd be good to watch even for someone who was there :thumb:

[sshhaabb]

This link does not seem to working:

http://gbstv.info/dev/nsv_x264.zip

Will apprecite someone advising on how to play it with VLN.

[Stew2000]

This link does not seem to working:

http://gbstv.info/dev/nsv_x264.zip

Will apprecite someone advising on how to play it with VLN.
it took me a while to find a mirror.
so to help. I'll attach it. :smileypul

[joshdifabio]

This link does not seem to working:

http://gbstv.info/dev/nsv_x264.zip

Will apprecite someone advising on how to play it with VLN.
You know that this stream is no longer online?

[zeugnimod]

I think, its a link to the codec needed to view the streams. :)