[olug] HuskersNSide Football WebCast

[Eric Penne]

I was really pissed when I first saw the windows only stuff, but I do
know that political stuff will always get in the way.  The webcast
isn't free.  I think you can sign up for 7 bucks/mo at foxsports.com
and since there are 2 husker football games being webcast within this
month it would only be 3.50 per game.  

I'm going to be using win2k and mozilla and real to veiw the game on my
laptop with output to the TV.  I'm curious how the TimeWarner
connection here in Lincoln will hold up if a lot of people get online
to watch the game.  The football game that was webcast last year wasn't
too bad but still kinda choppy.  I watched it on an IMac through a
projector.


--- Andrew <andrew at einer.org> wrote:
> I tried to register on their site.  It says it doesn't require Flash
> 6, 
> but it won't let you go any further without downloading it.  
> 
> On another note, is this a free webcast?  
> 
> David Walker wrote:
> 
> >I know some of the technical team involved in this  They are Linux
> users and 
> >I'm sure they are looking at how to support Linux and MacOS clients
> and I'll 
> >be sure to put in my ideas.
> >
> >Of course with a project this big I'm sure there are a lot of
> political issues 
> >and stuff.  The final decision may not be a technical one.
> >
> >I do not know how long they are locked into the current technology
> for.
> >
> >On Saturday 31 August 2002 10:26 am, (Via wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>The following is an email I sent to the people at Huskers.com:
> >>
> >>You have a great site that I usually go to first when looking for
> >>husker information. Why would you require me to use an internet
> >>browser, media player, and operating system from a confirmed
> monopoly
> >>to view the Husker game?  You will not see me sign up for a
> >>HuskersNSide account because of this.  Even though RealPlayer uses
> a
> >>proprietary codec they still produce a viewer for other operating
> >>systems.  You should strongly consider not requiring Windows Media
> >>Player and IE for broadcast of the games.  Using standards based
> web
> >>creation will increase your readers.    Other browsers such as
> Opera,
> >>Mozilla, and Netscape support these standards as does Internet
> >>Explorer, therefore it doesn't make sense to only support one
> browser.
> >>Using RealPlayer as a streaming media format also makes sense
> because
> >>then just one encoding server can support Windows, Mac, Linux, and
> >>other platforms.  These other platforms make sense to support
> because
> >>of the nature of approximately 10% of the viewers to this game will
> be
> >>on campus.  The University of Nebraska has a very diverse computer
> >>base.  Many of the viewers will be using MacOS and Linux. 
> Depending on
> >>where your stream would be coming from it might be possible that
> most
> >>of the traffic would be internal to campus and therefore not eat up
> as
> >>much external bandwidth which would be much more efficient and
> allow
> >>you to attract more external customers for the game.
> >>
> >>Nevertheless, you have chosen to require software from a monopoly,
> >>software that doesn't support all of the possible
> viewers/customers.
> >>
> >>Eric Penne
> >>Lincoln, NE
> >>epenne at yahoo.com
> >>
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