Can we watch the FIU game?

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:34 pm

Sweet! Definitely worth the $8 for me. I'll try it out!

GO FALCONS!!!

BGFan · Post by **BGFan** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:23 pm

Bleeding Orange wrote:
BGGrad01 wrote:I watched about a quarter and a half of last week's game on the mac-sports.com's broadcast. I was very impressed. Pretty good picture and not too many "kinks" that I noticed. Well worth the $8 to see the Falcons IMO.
My biggest question is, can you get it to full screen, or is the player embedded in a web page? My 17" LCD would work pretty well if it can be made full screen, I would imagine.

One caveat...if you can go full screen, unless you spent a lot of $ on the monitor you may get some smearing. Less expensive LCD displays tend to not have an extremely high refresh rate which can cause that smearing affect with a lot of movement going on. I know this is the case for games, but I don't know if the same holds true with this type of broadcast.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:35 pm

BGFan wrote:
Bleeding Orange wrote:
BGGrad01 wrote:I watched about a quarter and a half of last week's game on the mac-sports.com's broadcast. I was very impressed. Pretty good picture and not too many "kinks" that I noticed. Well worth the $8 to see the Falcons IMO.
My biggest question is, can you get it to full screen, or is the player embedded in a web page? My 17" LCD would work pretty well if it can be made full screen, I would imagine.
One caveat...if you can go full screen, unless you spent a lot of $ on the monitor you may get some smearing. Less expensive LCD displays tend to not[\b] have an extremely high refresh rate which can cause that smearing affect with a lot of movement going on. I know this is the case for games, but I don't know if the same holds true with this type of broadcast.

Actually it does. LCD is a terrible technology for anything that has quick movement. In TVs they get away with the poor refresh rates because you sit so far back that it is less noticeable; I would still never buy an LCD TV. It is quite obvious if you're playing a fast paced computer game however. It would almost certainly hold true with something like this as well, if you were sitting at normal computer distance away.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:17 am

hammb wrote:
Bleeding Orange wrote:
BGGrad01 wrote:I watched about a quarter and a half of last week's game on the mac-sports.com's broadcast. I was very impressed. Pretty good picture and not too many "kinks" that I noticed. Well worth the $8 to see the Falcons IMO.
My biggest question is, can you get it to full screen, or is the player embedded in a web page? My 17" LCD would work pretty well if it can be made full screen, I would imagine.
I haven't tried it, but that would depend on the resolutions that they're streaming. Even if you could expand it to full screen if they're streaming only smaller resolutions you wouldn't want to, because it would be so pixelated.

I couldn't find any info on there about what resolution(s) they stream. J4H, you used it last week, didn't you? Was it in a good enough resolution to expand it out to full screen?

It's embeded in a player. You can expand the player to full screen, but the game only covered about 70% of the screen. It was still plenty big enough for me, and I suspect that the quality would have gone down enough to be more annoying if it was expanded any further.

I was extremely pleased with the feed, and I was when I used it to watch the MAC tourney last year also. Having Josh Harris do the commentary was a nice bonus also

. Worth every penny and I'll be using it again this weekend.

hammb · Post by **hammb** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:44 am

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:
hammb wrote:
Bleeding Orange wrote:
BGGrad01 wrote:I watched about a quarter and a half of last week's game on the mac-sports.com's broadcast. I was very impressed. Pretty good picture and not too many "kinks" that I noticed. Well worth the $8 to see the Falcons IMO.
My biggest question is, can you get it to full screen, or is the player embedded in a web page? My 17" LCD would work pretty well if it can be made full screen, I would imagine.
I haven't tried it, but that would depend on the resolutions that they're streaming. Even if you could expand it to full screen if they're streaming only smaller resolutions you wouldn't want to, because it would be so pixelated.

I couldn't find any info on there about what resolution(s) they stream. J4H, you used it last week, didn't you? Was it in a good enough resolution to expand it out to full screen?
It's embeded in a player. You can expand the player to full screen, but the game only covered about 70% of the screen. It was still plenty big enough for me, and I suspect that the quality would have gone down enough to be more annoying if it was expanded any further.

I was extremely pleased with the feed, and I was when I used it to watch the MAC tourney last year also. Having Josh Harris do the commentary was a nice bonus also . Worth every penny and I'll be using it again this weekend.

How animated was J5 on the commentary on the 4th down play where we ran the QB sweep and he got stuffed? He looked royally PISSED in the booth at the time.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:47 am

J5 was not very happy with a lot of the play calling. It was sweet that he kept saying "we" when referring to BG.

I think he said something to the effect of that was the best we could do on a play call after a timeout?

FMBfan07 · Post by **FMBfan07** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 12:51 pm

FIUGonnaLose wrote:
bgsufn wrote:
FIUGonnaLose wrote:This game is also being broadcasted live online (free) by our Athletic Department. You can go to our website below and sign up for a Panther Pass. This is the 1st game they are streaming live so not sure how it will work but should work fine.

http://www.fiusports.com/
It's asking for a credit card?!?
Yes I believe they do ask for a cc but nothing is charged, the Panther Pass is free this year...you may have to cancel after the game so not to be charged next year. This is all from my personal experience only of course.

when i hit the subscribe button it says 7.95. So i'm assuming it it s not free and it is just like the mac-sports.com video feed and i'd rather give my money there... this is what i see https://www.nmnathletics.com//reg2/Star ... M_ID=11700

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:57 pm

The University is advertising the FIUsports.com feed, and says it is in fact 7.95.

http://bgsufalcons.cstv.com/sports/m-fo ... 06aac.html

Falconboy · Post by **Falconboy** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:29 pm

Maybe a FIU fan can clear thing up here. bgsufalcons.com had a collum on the fiusports web feed thing and said it was 7.95. Some FIU fan here said it was free for the first year. Be nice to know if thats true or not. These web feeds can be touch and go alot of times. It depends or your connection , where your connected at (if using wifi) and such. Does anyone know what connection speed you have to be at for that feed to work seamlessly? The'res a site that tests your upload & download speeds to tell how fast your connection really is. I think its speakeasy.net or org .com.

FIUGonnaLose · Post by **FIUGonnaLose** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:39 pm

FMBfan07 wrote:
FIUGonnaLose wrote:
bgsufn wrote:
FIUGonnaLose wrote:This game is also being broadcasted live online (free) by our Athletic Department. You can go to our website below and sign up for a Panther Pass. This is the 1st game they are streaming live so not sure how it will work but should work fine.

http://www.fiusports.com/
It's asking for a credit card?!?
Yes I believe they do ask for a cc but nothing is charged, the Panther Pass is free this year...you may have to cancel after the game so not to be charged next year. This is all from my personal experience only of course.
when i hit the subscribe button it says 7.95. So i'm assuming it it s not free and it is just like the mac-sports.com video feed and i'd rather give my money there... this is what i see https://www.nmnathletics.com//reg2/Star ... M_ID=11700

Well mine's is still free, must be because I registered several weeks back...or they can tell you are Panther food and charge you.

Til' Saturday boys.

Falcon Commander · Post by **Falcon Commander** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:41 pm

I used to drink panther piss.

I think it was advertised as Rolling Rock !

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:16 pm

I tried to view the sample video and received this message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:")."

Any thoughts on what I need to do to get this to work?

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:17 pm

Warthog wrote:I tried to view the sample video and received this message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:")."

Any thoughts on what I need to do to get this to work?

What version of WMP? I think I have 9 and it works fine for me. Also, what browser are you using? I ended up having to use IE.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:19 pm

Jacobs4Heisman wrote:
Warthog wrote:I tried to view the sample video and received this message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:")."

Any thoughts on what I need to do to get this to work?
What version of WMP? I think I have 9 and it works fine for me. Also, what browser are you using? I ended up having to use IE.

How do I tell which version? I am using firefox as my browser.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 10:43 pm

Warthog wrote:
Jacobs4Heisman wrote:
Warthog wrote:I tried to view the sample video and received this message:
"Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. If you typed a URL in the Open URL dialog box, try using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:")."

Any thoughts on what I need to do to get this to work?
What version of WMP? I think I have 9 and it works fine for me. Also, what browser are you using? I ended up having to use IE.
How do I tell which version? I am using firefox as my browser.

Go to your program files folder, and open your windows media player folder. There should be a file called wmplayer. right click and choose properties and there should be a version tab.

Make sure you're 9 or above and try the link from IE.

Can we watch the FIU game?

FIU Sports web feed.....