Solitaire TV first tries

[the french guy]

for people who didn't see the marvelous show, here's a little video

More seriously, it's a video to show you the latency I was speaking about. I'll see if I can reduce it a little. It's not important for tv broadcast, but will be more annoying for play by tv.

We'll see.




On the screen you can see the VLC output window on right and on left (I reduced the size for making it simplier to watch) the live internt tv broadcast. Exactly the same resolution, speed, and quality between the local output and the internet output. Just the few secs latency, but I believe it's the time needed for the video to go thru the worldwide web pipes ?

[Hoop27]

Thats excellent. A how to on streaming would be awesome once you are setup!

[Hoop27]

I was thinking 20mm would be ideal for the football base as well. We had been experimenting with something that was 3/8" or about 10mm and it seemed small.

[the french guy]

I'll explain how to. It's not the simplier way to go, since most of the streaming websites (just tv, ustream) also offers their own downloadable software to improve the quality of streaming. I personaly use Justin TV because the website maintainers support the use of VLC.

But using VLC is fast (once you figured how to set up the command line), very light (VLC is known for that) and great quality (once again, the VLC "core" is known for it qualities).

I believe the best use for that technic is a dedicated computer for broadcasting. You take an "old" pc (p4 2ghz for example), you put an up to date light linux (Xubuntu, for example), VLC and you're done. No viruses, no codecs, no drivers, no crashes, fast start, etc...all the great features of a linux based system.

[the french guy]

was thinking 20mm would be ideal for the football base as well. We had been experimenting with something that was 3/8" or about 10mm and it seemed small.

On your board, 20mm seems to be a minimum

30mm ( a wargaming round base for example) should be great.

You have to play some games, and note the passing completions. Tweak your passing material until you regularly obtain a pro football or NCAA (or CFL in your case) passing completion rating.

Personaly, if I obtain a 60% passing rating, I'm happy with the result.

[the french guy]

Watch live video from miniaturefootball on Justin.tv



I'm broadcasting again, tonight I make some test for text and effects, for now with no result.

Tell me if it's working for you !

[the french guy]

I don't get it for now

I achieved to insert logos (yeah, logos, with transparency and all the stuff, like on real tv channels) and basic text, but it works only locally and not appears on the online broadcast. Normally, I should be able to also change the text and logo dynamically during the broadcast.

I'm sure it's something really simple, an option somwhere...