Storm Chasers who stream live video!

[Van DeWald]

Chasers that also participate in the Spotter Network program should add a tag in the "Note" section whether you're streaming or not and where at. That way, we can view the Spotter Network icon, and get a feel for who "are" or "are not" streaming cams.

 

[kenny_allen]

Answers to your questions.

Also, on the Severe Streaming website, you state that you provide the necessary software. Is this a GUI/widget application that you install that uploads the stream? What type of upload speeds do you need to get a reliable, stable stream? What about bandwidth? How much bandwidth is consumed for the upload?

Bandwidth depends on which file you choose (we have multiple options for various data connections). There is more information in our member's section of www.SevereStreaming.com


We also give you multiple options for embeding the video on your site and we never resell your video. This is all about helping out our fellow storm chasers. This service is for CHASERS built by CHASERS.

We hope you will decide to stream with us.

Thanks to everyone who watched last night. David's stream had over 225 viewers (unique players) launched at one time last night. That is only a preview of things to come.

 

[cedwards]

I will have to try it out. I am currently sending live images with our location overlayed on googlemaps.

 

[Marc Austin]

I watched some of Roger's live stream last night. What a great feature for people who live in Florida and can only chase 2 weeks out of the year! Our team will certainly sign up assuming we can get a decent internet connection while chasing. Excellent job guys! Welcome to the newest development in virtual chasing!

 

[David Drummond]

Chasers that also participate in the Spotter Network program should add a tag in the "Note" section whether you're streaming or not and where at. That way, we can view the Spotter Network icon, and get a feel for who "are" or "are not" streaming cams.

Good idea, I will do that today! I too was using a Sony Handicam over a Sprint data card. Encoded the stream in such a way it was a working decent even over Sprint 1xRTT. Not sure how effective it was after dark, but there was constant cloud to cloud lightning and lots of chasers on the road, so I let it run.

 

[Maggie Kahman]

I wanna say that i was watching Drummonds' chase cam last night (as was most of #stormchase) and i was impressed with the quality of his vid!!

 

[Marc Remillard]

Good idea, I will do that today! I too was using a Sony Handicam over a Sprint data card. Encoded the stream in such a way it was a working decent even over Sprint 1xRTT. Not sure how effective it was after dark, but there was constant cloud to cloud lightning and lots of chasers on the road, so I let it run.

I was watching you near midnight, and it was very clear. Nice CGs, no lag. Thanks a lot for sharing!

 

[kenny_allen]

David - We got a lot of positive comments today about the lightning footage after dark from your feed and Roger Hill's feed.

Roger is already streaming today. The service is working great. Thanks to everyone for checking it out.

 

[Mike Peregrine]

Yeah - you could make out a decent amount of detail in the cloud base, even after dark. Particularly through the lightning strokes. It was pretty cool - I almost felt like I chased in Oklahoma last night myself. This is going to be like crack for cyber chasers.

 

[kenny_allen]

Spamming Stormtrack.org?

I hope everyone will continue to support our efforts. Any feedback can be sent to [email protected]

 

[Peter Wharton]

Streaming Video on IE7

I don't know if anyone else is having this problem, but everytime I try to link to the Live ChaseCam Network, my browser simply locks up and I have to exit the browser which is "not responding". I have no trouble accessing your Home page, but no luck with the link to the ChaseCams. I'm using IE7 on XP with Windows Media Player with a decent broadband connection (well reasonably fast for New Zealand ) but I've had no success logging on several attempts over the past few weeks. Any suggestions? I'm coming over chasing in May/June and would like to be able to get some access now to build my anticipation for the season. Thanks, Peter

 

[BKDPhillips]

Streaming issues on MAC

I agree with Peter. I was thrilled about being able to watch the chase from my home. Unfortunately, after many attempts using Safari, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, all the latest versions for MAC OSX 10.4, I finally had to give up because each of the streams from SevereStudios were causing my browsers to crash. Even after having my husband updating Window Media plug-ins for my computer, I still couldn't get them to stay connected for more than two or three minutes before crashing.

My excitement about using the streaming videos was so my student(s) at school could see it also. So I tried to use it again and I couldn't get it to stay connected using our Windows XP loaded computers at school either.

I hope you can get this resolved or give me some hints on how to fix my situation so I can excite young people about the weather.

Thanks again for offering this service and for all those chasers who will share their experience with us at home (and school). Between the video streams, stormtrack forum, and many chasers websites, I have had more fun the past several years learning about the weather and sharing it with students.

Belinda

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

Severe Studios will probably be able to answer this better than I, but I would think the Processor and Memory of your computer has a lot to do with it.
Try a: Ctrl-ALT-Delete function to pull up your Windows Task Manager and look at your CPU usage. When you are trying to run it and if you see the CPU usage maxing out, then close the program and see how much CPU usage you are using then. I have seen that this usage is pretty CPU intensive. When running mine, I am idling along about 65-75%. If I close it, then it drops down to near nothing.
Try it and see. It may help or others may have a more accurate or better answer than mine.

 

[BKDPhillips]

Thanks Dennis, I will check it out on my various machines at school and ask my husband about that at home on the MAC.

Belinda

 

[Ben Holcomb]

We will be doing some updates to our portal pages here in the very near future. Unfortunately we haven't had a chance to do it this weekend as we were in the middle of moving to better hardware. I'll be posting a bit on that later in the SevereStudios blog!