The stream keeps freezing up for me too over the last few weeks. I had just assumed that it was my LAN card having issues as the stream vids continue to get posted. Could it be anything to do with the recent flash update? The stream was working fine before then........
(18-06-2010 11:07 )Josh Wrote: [ -> ]The stream keeps freezing up for me too over the last few weeks. I had just assumed that it was my LAN card having issues as the stream vids continue to get posted. Could it be anything to do with the recent flash update? The stream was working fine before then........
It seemed ok to me a few minutes ago. I have the latest flash update installed as well.
Not seen the show at night.
I have noticed that the sexstation stream was suffering a bit with freezes last night, which was unusual, but there might have been a lot of people watching since a new girl was on.
There have been recent posts in the TValways thread about the problems with the babestation stream, but it seems ok to me in the daytime.
The TeaseMe TV streams seem to be worse since they changed their website some weeks ago. Some of their channels are better than others.
I agree with The Watcher on this one, that I don't think it has anything to do with the new flash update. As the 965 stream was working last night without a hitch for me. And other webstreams for other companies seem to be working as normal, other than TeaseMe TV's 5th stream.
I know I had a campaign going to improve there stream, and I thought that campaign was over when they gave us a near perfect format, with excellent quality. But this last month, they seem to have screwed up all my hard work, and gone backwards instead of forwards.
Now Jamie's favorite quote is quality over quantity, but he's seems to have forgotten to apply this strategy when it comes to the stream.
If we could get back to the format we had a month ago, I don't think any of us would be complaining.
So Elite, if your reading this, could you please rectify the situation. As how are us cappers supposed to help promote your station, if we can't get the material to do it.
Well, the new set is visually stunning, just like the presenters, but the sparkly background does nothing to improve the webstream transmission.
Way too much picture information for the bitrate there transmitting at too keep the stream stable. The end result is a stream that breaks up, freezes more than regularly, and looks grainy at times.
Solution, up your bitrate.
Sorry to be turning this into a one man thread again, but I just thought I'd share my observations with you.
Funny how the stream just seamed to correct it's self just as the off-peak time came in. Now is this due to D2see's transmission protocols conflicting with peak-time protocols? Your guess is as good as mine on this one.
But for those of you who have a connection status program that shows up in your active programs on the bottom right of your monitor, next to the time display. You may be able to confirm my observations the next time the problem occurs. The icon normally looks like two little monitors that light up when you have an active connection. Now when your watching a stream, this is normally permanently lit, showing that you have a stable connection. But during the times of the stream locking-up and freezing, this symbol is constantly showing that you are losing connection. Now this doesn't always result in the stream freezing, that only occurs when the buffer runs out of data before the stream re-connects.
Now I do know that Club Paradiso used to have the same problem when they were with D2see, but since they changed stream providers to FirestormMedia, their stream is a lot more stable.
So I can only conclude that D2see's transmission protocols are at fault, as most other stream providers don't seem to have this problem. So unless D2see can fix this problem, maybe Elite should consider changing stream providers.
Now I'm not saying my observations, or conclusions are correct, but there's certainly enough evidence to merit either D2see or Elite investigating it further.
Now I don't expect any response from either of them, in regards to this, so we will just have to wait and see how things turn out.
Well there getting better, it only took them 3 mins to switch the second stream on this time.
Although the quality is still crap due to the intricate background set. And there still listing it as channel 911 on the stream
It would take someone 30 secs to change the script to correct this.
Well, have to say that Elite's sparkly new set is pretty much un-cappable* ... was just trying to sort out a video of Michelle Thorne last night and eventually gave up when it looked like it'd need to be around 1GB for 90 mins just to keep the already crappy quality ... surely they have the same problem themselves in compressing the Digital TV feed? ... don't have sky myself, so can't have a look.
* At least it is for me, others may be better at codecs and the like
Nice to have a different perspective, and your not wrong Spooled.
I recorded a 3 hour session the other night of Kitty, Caty & Charlie's 2-4-1's, and it took nearly 6 gig of hard drive space. It was the same with the hot tub set. But at least the hot tub set wasn't pixalizing all the time.
You need to have a pretty nippy machine to capture the new set off the stream, and keep a decent frame rate and quality. Now they could improve the quality by turning the bit-rate up. But the recorded file will still be bigger than normal, because of the detail in the set.
I can remember BangMedia having the same problem, when they had the animal print sheets on the beds, and their barn/stable set. They eventually reverted to simpler set designs.
Now don't get me wrong, I have no objection to the more intricate set designs, as long as they turn up the bit-rate on the stream to compensate for the extra detail.
I'm a member of the Elite website,is there any way i can stop the stream from going off after 30 minutes allowing me to record the stream when i'm not by my pc?
(20-06-2010 21:12 )cityboy76 Wrote: [ -> ]I'm a member of the Elite website,is there any way i can stop the stream from going off after 30 minutes allowing me to record the stream when i'm not by my pc?
Unfortunately no, That option is down to Elite to change the xml script for the player, allowing you to watch longer. We all have the same problem when recording the stream, just something we have to put up with. But it would be nice not to have to refresh, as a member.