You Could Be Streaming by Tomorrow!

[Kory Hartman]

Just in time for the active weather that is shaping up...

SevereStudios is proud to introduce a new website and video service that we are offering FREE to the chaser community.

www.severestreaming.com

SevereStreaming is our new Windows Media streaming service. If you've ever thought about streaming live video from your chase vehicle, please sign up!

In addition to servers that can handle thousands of viewers per stream, we offer publicity by displaying your stream on SevereStudios.com, and complete technical support.

If you want to embed the stream on your own website, or if you are a media chaser who streams video back to a TV station, we have options for that as well.

I will do my best to answer any questions you have right here in this forum, or better yet, please email [email protected]

Thanks!

 

[Andrew Revering]

I've used this service and am very happy with it. Works great, and you can get really good quality on faster connections, and even a decent quality at slower connections. Pretty simple to set up once you get the tools to get started.

 

[Bill Tabor]

Would 1XRTT connects be worth trying?

Also, I notice people keep having problems seeing the streamcast.

 

[Kory Hartman]

Yes, we have special configs for the slower 1xRTT cell speeds.

That's all we had in South Dakota until late last year and it worked fine.

The few problems we saw the last two days dealt with browser plug-ins and configuration issues on the VIEWERS side.

 

[Steve Miller]

I used 1xRTT connect all day yesterday once we got off I-35 and started heading east. A lot of the dropping video problems we had yesterday was the fact that it was the first day of streaming. For the first couple of hours we were in gee-whiz land and playing with settings prior to chaseable storms. Once we got off on a storm, we were in 1xRTT and in SE, OK having to reconnect in certain areas due to terrain. That said, I don't do a lot of chasing in the hills and generally have a great Sprint signal so I don't see it being a problem in the future (for my vehicle anyhow).

 

[Brett Adair]

I'm trying to figure out if I would be able to stream on my autonet unit. Anyone have a clue or have any of the other testers tried?

 

[Dennis Sherrod]

Hey Brett. I am not sure, but isn't Autonet just a wireless router? If so, I would think it would work with your laptop.

 

[Kory Hartman]

As long as the Autonet has an external antenna, anything would be better than just an air card sitting on your front seat.

 

[David Drummond]

External antenna is a must.

I was having problems holding the stream because of the hills in SE OK yesterday. I would just have to restart it and keep going. Signal gets week when you drop in the little valleys between those hills. If your down in one long enough, the stream error out and breaks. Signal gets too weak. Never week enough I lost GRL3 data however.'

Overall in two days of running it, I am extremely please. I will be doing this probably every chase now.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

David, I watched you and Steve and though Steve did stay connected more than you by far your video was 3 times as good. Was resolution / bandwith an issue? The second of each of your pictures was pretty near the same time for comparison. ( posting you twos images for comparison / tech info )

David:

Steve:

As for the website the videos on the main page display fine in IE but me and many others use Firefox now and on my Firefox the video being displayed wasn't resizing so you only seen about 20 percent of the upper left corner of it on that page.

Overall the site seems to be a great idea and has some potential.

 

[Steve Miller]

Jim:
I think the difference is simply equipment. David and I had identical encoder set-ups and my computer was more than powerful enough to encode. Our data connections were with the same company utilizing similar antenna and amp.
The weak link in my system is the camera I was using and the mount it was attached to.
The camera is an older spare unit and doesn't have many of the features I would like to utilize (infinity being one). The mount is new and Hans (chase partner) and I identified a problem and a fix for the bouncy cam while under way. I imagine the bouncing camera didn't help considering everything involved in reducing video.

One interesting experiment we did yesterday was send video at 29fps at 640x480 when we were in Sprint broadband coverage. It worked very well. This was after dark on our way back to OKC around 9pm if anyone happened to be watching.

I plan to stream on Thursday and hope things look a little better. I would be interested in hearing feedback.

 

[David Drummond]

Yeah, I had a steady RAM mount attached to the dash I have used for years to mount my video camera on. The change was using a brand new Sony minidv cam for the streaming. As most you you know, Sony has great low light capability. It's not an expensive little camera, the HC36, but it was gotten just for this purpose alone.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

Jim: I think the difference is simply equipment.

Your probably right, I wasn't knocking your system or anything by any means just throwing out my observations in hopes of helping out the whole live streaming thing. It makes it real nice for those of us who are limited to local chasing for whatever reason when we know you guys are out having all the fun.

I identified a problem and a fix for the bouncy cam while under way. I imagine the bouncing camera didn't help considering everything involved in reducing video.

LOL, Yeah i think I remember it swinging around showing the roof and other stuff for a while in there.

 

[Steve Miller]

LOL, Yeah i think I remember it swinging around showing the roof and other stuff for a while in there.

I tilted the camera when I was passing vehicles, driving too fast in town, running stop signs, flipping off the locals and being stopped by cops.

I kid, of course.

 

[David Drummond]

I tilted the camera when I was passing vehicles, driving too fast in town, running stop signs, flipping off the locals and being stopped by cops.

I kid, of course.

Unfortunately for him, he was in front of me.... and I didn't. Muhahahahaha