Am kommenden Freitag soll das Space Shuttle Endeavour zum letzen Mal und ein Space Shuttle zum vorletzten Mal abheben. Da will man dabei sein 
Ich habe glücklicherweise gerade die Herren (und Damen?) von SpaceLiveCast entdeckt. Offenbar machen die schon eine ganze Weile Livestreams zu den verschiedenen Raumfahrt-Events.
P.S.: Wenn ich einen Wunsch frei hätte, wäre das, dass die Seite einen Video Podcast Feed anbietet….(wird Hilfe benötigt?)
Source 1: http://spacelivecast.de/
Source 2: http://www.raumfahrer.net
Source 3: http://spacelivecast.de/2011/04/29-04-ab-1900-uhr-sts-134-letzter-endeavour-flug/
Thanks to a podcast I found a great software for my iPhone and iPod touch. It’s a small tool which does cost less than 3 Euro and it’s served by a server tool which runs on Windows and Mac OS X.
It’s called Air Video and it’s frikin’ awesome! ™
What you do is you install the server software and point it to all your directories / drives that might contain video material. You then take your iPhone and install the client app. If you configured the server to be available over the internet you can now connect from anywhere you want using a pass-pin (which is generated) and a password (which is set by you). And by “from anywhere” they mean “anywhere”. WLAN or 3g didn’t make any difference in my test. You start the client, point to a video file and most of the time you are asked if you a) want to directly play is (if the file is ipod-compatible) or b) if you want to live-convert it and play it (when the file isn’t compatible and needs to be re-encoded live for you) or c) if you want to add the file to a conversion queue which will off-line convert the video for you.
In terms of “finding your video” it does look like this:
Simple, eh? Taping a video will bring up this screen:
As I said – Play directoy, Play with Live Conversion and Offline-Conversion-Queue…
It did work with EVERY Video I tried. When I tried Full-HD Movies my serving PC wasn’t able to handle the load but everyhing in SD worked great which is perfect for me.
Therefore I can highly recommend this tool – it really does work better than anything I’ve seen before.
Source: http://www.inmethod.com/air-video/index.html
Watching the daily dose of news television could become the start of a rant.
Found in the german “heute journal” show from the 14th of May 2009. So guys – 526 is bigger than 527 at last!
Finally we got a TV set. Since Samsung announced new LED based sets we ordered a 46 inch tv. It was delivered today (yesterday the Mac mini which will drive the mediacenter arrived). I only had a short test-run scanning for cable stations… so more of that in the following days – especially more of the mediacenter configuration.
Source: Samsung UE46B6000
A feature of my harddisk video rekorder is to take screenshots. So I took around 900 video still shots in the last two years. I had some minutes to take a look at them and found a real gem:
So on 23rd of May 2008 JC Flowers obviously wanted to pay EUR 22,50 per Hypo Real Estate share. As of now this same share is worth EUR 0,66 – What a difference a year makes.
Die Bits-und-so Adventskalender DVD kam an! Hurray! Und nicht nur die war in der Packung:
Hätte ich einen Fernseher wäre “Schlag den Raab” eine der wenigen Sendungen die ich mir glaube ich ab und an anschauen würde. Nun lief diese Sendung zum 13. Mal und ich dachte mir: Schaust du einmal nach ob das nicht im Internet als Stream angeboten wird.
Wird es – und zwar von ProSieben selbst – als Flash On-Demand “auf-der-Webseite” Player. Und hauptsächlich als Notiz für spätere Sendungen an mich selbst hier mal kurz die Anleitung wie man sich die ganzen Einzelvideos von Schlag den Raab auf den heimischen Rechner zieht um sie ohne Werbeunterbrechung und ohne lästiges herumklicken durchaus auchmal auf dem ebenso heimischen Fernseher anschauen kann. Die Qualität reicht dabei so gerade bis kurz nach knapp aber durchaus schaubar.
Also – für mich und den geneigten Leser:
Wie schon bei vorherigen Folgen der Sendung ist der vordere Teil der URL immer der gleiche, also http://videoplayer.prosieben.de/show_comedy/schlag_den_raab/flv/ – geändert wird jeweils das Jahr der Sendung – in diesem Fall 2008, der Monat – in diesem Fall 11 – und die Nummer der Sendung – in diesem Fall die 13. Danach kommt -00-01.flv bis -00-15.flv – wieviele Einzelteile das sind kann man auf der Webseite abzählen oder einfach probieren bis ein Notfound kommt. Einfach oder?
Das ganze Zeug ist dann mit handelsüblichen Playern abspielbar und die Qualität ist wie schon gesagt nicht so schlecht für ein On-Demand Angebot der kostenlosen Sorte:
Der Platzverbrauch ist dann entsprechend auch bemerkenswert für ein On-Demand Angebot aber das ist ja nur von Vorteil:
Diesmal ist 3sat eine zeitweilige Heimat für Charlotte Roche. In der dort ab 1. Oktober startenden Reihe “Charlotte Roche unter…” wird sie Müllmänner, Bestatter, Altenpfleger in ihrem Alltag besuchen:
“Dabei probt Charlotte Roche nach eigenen Angaben den “charmanten Aufeinanderprall“. Ohne Drehbuch, ohne Absprachen, ganz spontan lässt sie sich auf Berufswelten und Menschen ein. “Ich versuche nicht, irgendeine verborgene Wahrheit ans Licht zu zerren. Es geht darum, was wir gemeinsam erleben.“ Und der Zuschauer lernt mit.”
Dankenswerterweise gibt es die kompletter Serie schon im Internet zu schauen – hochinteressante Sache das und meiner Meinung nach seit langem das beste Projekt von Charlotte.
P.S.: vielen Dank an Martin von Zwobotgeist für den Hinweis.
Source: 3sat
If you are frequently watching foreign language TV Shows you might be interested in subtitles for your TV shows:
“Here you can find subtitles for the most popular TV Shows and TV series. Subtitles are available in multiple languages. All subtitles here are packed with WinZip, you must unpack to use it. To watch DivX/XviD movies with subtitles you first need to install a DirectShow filter for Windows Media Player which is called DirectVobSub.”
Source: http://www.tvsubtitles.net/
I found the almost complete “Computer Chronicles” recordings on archive.org – and boy this is fun!
I picked some episodes and found very interesting things – like this particular episode from 1985. It’s about Unix and obviously one of the presenters has his very own opinion about Unix.
Source: Computer Chronicles 1985 “Unix”
Since last year FeM is recording and live streaming the annual Formula Student Event in Germany:
“Screeching tires, smouldering heads and impressive technical innovations – welcome to the Formula Student Germany 2008!
Join the Brunel Race at our stand. As a virtual race driver you’ll be able to win the Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring. The fastest driver gets the chance to win 2 tickets for the Formula 1 Event at Nürburgring 2009.”
If you don’t know what Formula Student is…you may want to read this:
“Students build a single seat formula racecar with which they can compete against teams from all over the world. The competition is not won solely by the team with the fastest car, but rather by the team with the best overall package of construction, performance, and financial and sales planning.
Formula Student challenges the team members to go the extra step in their education by incorporating into it intensive experience in building and manufacturing as well as considering the economic aspects of the automotive industry. Teams take on the assumption that they are a manufacturer developing a prototype to be evaluated for production. The target audience is the non-professional Weekend-Racer, for which the racecar must show very good driving characteristics such as acceleration, braking and handling. It should be offered at a very reasonable cost and be reliable and dependable. Additionally, the car’’s market value increases through other factors such as aesthetics, comfort and the use of readily available, standard purchase components.
The challenge the teams face is to compose a complete package consisting of a well constructed racecar and a sales plan that best matches these given criteria. The decision is made by a jury of experts from the motorsport, automotive and supplier industries. The jury will judge every team’s car and sales plan based on construction, cost planning and sales presentation. The rest of the judging will be done out on the track, where the students demonstrate in a number of performance tests how well their self-built racecars fare in their true environment.”
Starting this friday there will be a livestream available (Flash and Windows Media). Great stuff!
Source 1: Livestream
Source 2: http://formulastudent.tv/
Source 3: http://www.formulastudent.de
It’s not as many of those fance company-blogs like gizmodo have written: not the Xbox Media Center project (which makes XBMC for Windows, Linux, Xbox 1 and OSX) renamed itself – infact only the fork of OSXBMC renamed itself to PLEX.
“The one name that stuck was Plex. I like it because it evokes “cineplex” and the suffix means “comprising a number of parts” which the application certain does. In mathematics, you use the suffix to mean “ten to the power of the number” (e.g. oneplex = 10).
Because there are no four-letter domain names left (seriously, try to find one!) we decided to square the plex, so to speak. Think of either plex^2 or plex squared (the beta logo below tries to connote the word “plex” inside a square that might represent a TV screen). The domain names are plex2.com, plexsquared.com, and plexsquare.com for good measure. They are not active yet.
In the coming days, we’ll be working on the rebranding process, including the application packaging, logo, web domains, etc. In the longer term, we have some exciting things in the skin department as well. Stay tuned, and thanks for all your support; we really are lucky to have such an great community.”
Along with the new name comes a new logo:
Source: http://www.osxbmc.com/
Source 2: http://www.plex2.com
It’s been some time since I wrote about my little digital video disk recorder project and I think it’s time to wrap up some things. First of all I am using this software myself on a daily basis, having recorded about 1000 recordings in the last 4 months alone tells something. YAPS now is capable of handling multiple users – with each one having their own recordings and play-stop-positions.
Here are the new features in a short list:
- Electronic Program Guide (EPG) Integration (multiple transponders/streams if you like)
- Session Announcement Protocol / Session Description Protocol Integration
- Multi-User support with capability checking
- Cassini / ASP.NET Integration to allow ASP.NET web applications to run on YAPS
- WCF Webservice interface to expose video disk recorder internal data (recordings list, event list,…)
- Automatic and Reoccuring recordings
- several new graphics
The daily-build system is broken as of now but you can always grab the latest sourcecode from here.
For a complete changelog hit the jump.
Here’s the complete changelog since the last article about yaps:
13.04.2008
- added %render_automatic_and_reoccuring_recording_table% keyword; the other recording table keywords don’t display automatic/reoccuring events
- added canAccessOthersRecordings capability and capability handling
- added %holdingtime%, %comment% and %elapsed_holdingtime% to the Recording/Recorded/AutomaticReoccuringRecording table
- added %render_currently_running_epg_events_table% keyword
06.04.2008
- added Session Description Protocol parser
- added Session Announcement Protocol setting data (SAP_IPAdress, SAP_Port)
- added Session Announcement Protocol processor
- bugfix attempt to fix a race condition that leads to no RecordingList rendering and no more recordings…
03.04.2008
- added WCF Service Host to allow self hosting of data
- switched to .NET Framework 3.5
23.03.2008
- added feature that automatic EPG recordings end when they do end on the channel – Event EndTime is used now
- rewrote Cassini Webserver integration
- fixed a bug in the Template Processor that caused a display of the runtime as fraction of minutes…
15.03.2008
- automatic epg recordings are now looking at the channel id and if it’s set they only record events on that channel
- automatig epg recordings are now looking for a timespan in which they are active
- recorded listing template processor is now aware of automatic recordings (icon, time rendering)
- added automatic epg wait icon on recordingslist html page
- changed automatic epg recording to take the real name from the epg instead of the one that was entered
14.03.2008
- Recording data structure changed to reflect new “automatic epg based recording” feature
- added automatic EPG recording feature; based on “AutomaticEPGRecordingKeywords”
- changed Tuxbox Implementation to show channel ID on Xbox Media Center
- changed addrecording.html and http vcr command handling (addrecording) to reflect automatic epg recording feature
- implemented automatic epg based recording; just enter keywords + recordingtime + name + isAutomatic=true –> Automatic recording
13.03.2008
- changed EPG error handling to only stop listening to EPG events when 25 errors in a row occur
- changed EPG handling to display new events on unknown service ids
14.01.2008
13.01.2008
- updated neu.png
- added Holding-Time Handling
12.01.2008
- added reoccuring event handling in VCRScheduler
- added reoccuring event handling in HTML page AddRecordings
- updated years and version numbers
- bugfixed RecordingsPlayed statistics
- updated Recordings-Table to reflect status if recording is reoccuring or not
- added SVG Files for all YAPS graphics
03.01.2008
- updated solutions to Visual Studio 2008
17.11.2007
- Added HoldingTime to make “forget to delete a recording” impossible; HoldingTime of 0 is indefinite, everything else means hold n+1 days
- Changed behaviour of Recordings Streaming: The StopPosition Counter is updated in realtime which means: You don’t have to close a recording to watch it from the current Position
- added Cassini Wrapper
8.11.2007
- integration of Cassini v2 into YAPS
- added some statistics
22.10.2007
- added a new management data structure to the data structures/Recording.cs that holds a list of UserStopPosition; Each User now has his own LastStoppedPosition for each recording.
08.05.2007
- added RecordingsThumbnail class to generate a Thumbnail picture for a recording
- added generateThumbnailFilename to XBMCPlaylistFilesHelper
- added thumbnail creation and deletion routines to multicast_vcr and others
- udpating thumbnail when playcounter/position is updated…
- added “Updating recording…” console output
- added isRTP property to channelist (default value is false); you can determine if RTP header should be stripped or not for a specific channel
07.05.2007
- fixed a bug in the /xml/CurrentServiceData section that caused an exception when no EPG data was known
- added error handling to the EPG Processor Thread; after 25 errors a thread will be shut down
06.05.2007
- added /cgi-bin/zapto to http handling
- added /xml/streaminfo to http handling
- added Name2ServiceID to ChannelAndStationMapper
- added TuxboxCurrentServiceData structure and handling
- added /xml/currentservicedata method to http server
- added /xml/boxinfo method to http server
- added boxinfo data structure
05.05.2007
- several changes for debugging purposes to the YAPS multicast processor to debug a specific problem
- fixed a thread unsafe bug in multicast processor
- fixed several more thread unsafe things in multicast processor and vcrscheduler
- changed behaviour: If a streaming client now refuses to accept data packets he will be disconnected after 1 second (until timeshift is implemented)
01.05.2007
- fixed a bug in VCRScheduler that could lead to a crash on startup (was not threadsafe)
24.04.2007
- added %rendertransformation($input_url,$xslt_url)% keyword to the TemplateProcessor
21.04.2007
- fixed a memory leak in the rss generator
- added TuxBoxServices data structure
- added tuxbox /xml/services call handler to http processor
- changed the MulticastEPG source data handling so that the multicastEPG Sources are now stored in the settings.dat.xml (misc settings) file
- fixed a bug in the EPGProcessor that caused an empty CurrentlyPlayingList
- added small testing portion
- fixed some bugs in http server
- rewrote tuxbox services data structure and handling (helping hand: Andreas Heil)
18.04.2007
- reimplemented the whole Channel-Name-Picture-ServiceID-MulticastIP-MulticastPort Mapping and created a new data structure and XML file that holds that data
- added filtering functionality to the EPG Processor that filters only known channel EPG data and discards data for unkown channels
- fixed the XBMCSyncProcessor bug; I had the file deletion functionality disabled….
17.04.2007
- added the multicastedEPGProcessor Implementation, does maintain a CurrentlyRunning List but is not used yet (Implementation just for leak and stability testing)
- added new Channel/StationID mapping data structure
13.04.2007
- removed JMS/DVB subproject
- several changes to the JMS/EPG subproject to make JMS/DVB obsolete
- working EPG implementation (not yet activated) — need to get working
02.04.2007
- now displaying associated username instead of IP address in the http logfile
- added EPG Processor startup to YAPS.cs
01.04.2007
30.03.2007
- fixed a bug in the XBMC Playlist File branch; XBMC Playlistfiles respect now a port number setting != default port 80
29.03.2007
- changed multicast behaviour: we don’t use RTP from now on; there’s just plain UDP
- added new EPG test data
- fixed a bug in multicast_vcr
- fixed DeleteRecordings; did not work for several versions – you can now delete scheduled recordings
- fixed a bug in the ConsoleOutputLogger that leads to a “Collection was modified after the enumerator was instantiated.” exception when the logoutput is accessed while it’s written
Source 1: http://www.dotnetcommunity.de/yaps/yaps_daily_source.zip
Source 2: http://www.schrankmonster.de/PermaLink,guid,71a24ec5-8576-4fe6-b5f5-8607017e5f00.aspx
Since joost doesn’t give you that much choice there are several other IP services – like Zattoo:
“Zattoo is live TV on your PC – it’s the football game as you chat, the news as you email, and your favorite soap as you pay your bills. Zattoo is also TV when you don’t have a TV – it’s the channels you want, when you want, where you want.”
That’s almost every german public service channel is available… whuuuuuuu!
Source: http://zattoo.com/
MIX08 just started and you can now watch the keynote on-demand…just follow the link:
“The Next Web Now
Now in its third year, MIX is an intimate opportunity for cutting-edge technical, creative and business strategists to engage Microsoft in a conversation about the future of the web. Come explore the latest wave of opportunities and help redefine the boundaries between: content and commerce, PC and TV, Windows and the Web. “
Source: http://www.visitmix.com/blogs/Joshua/Day-1-Keynote/
When today the movie “Earth” aka “Unsere Erde” starts in cinemas around the country you may have the chance to experience something very special: a real cinematic déjà-vu.
Let me explain how:
What many people don’t know for sure: This movie is a best-of of the same-named TV-series previously aired on ARD some time ago and after that on other public stations. So if you are an avid documentation-watcher you are going to pay for something already seen (and maybe even stored at home, not to mention the monthly TV-fees…).
The original series contains eleven episodes of 45 mins (Uncut 48 mins, BBC-airing). It’s not difficult to sum up and recognize what’s missing (of course) in the movie-version.
You still may say: But I wanna enjoy it on a big screen with a crowd and once in my life it’s ok paying for old stuff.
Then I better say nothing about “Deep Blue”…
Jens Heymann
I have to admit that mostly than there is a big budget tv-miniseries I am going to watch it. They are ambitious, expensive and somehow unusual. Maybe you remember that Nibelungen-tv-version sometime ago: huge advertising, high expectations and in the end a merely low result.
So Treasure Island is not that bad. It keeps you busy for two evenings, but could have been way better:
Here a list of potential flaws:
1. Pirates-of-the-Caribbean-rip-of
Some of the characters acts like the ones from the big picture. John Silver like Johnny Depp and the two english soldiers like those pirate counterparts.
2. Modern dialogues
It is curious to hear the people talking in modern slang and maybe cost the movie some classical flair.
3. Actors
The producers did a big casting for this one. They did not have always a good hand. The acting performances go up and down through the film. This must not be bad acting, it also may be a sign of weak directing.
4. Known faces
To cast well known comedy actors in important roles is a thing I would be very careful with, because you permamently have to think of it and therefore it harms the overall atmosphere.
5. Invent new roles
Inventing roles is always a sin, even when it is a girl showing her naked body numerous times. I guess, this is simpy a marketing thing to attract a modern young audience.
But of course we will wait and hope for a better next one…
Jens Heymann
What went wrong here?
(TV Spielfilm, 16.11.2007)
Jens Heymann
Everybody needs more than one job these days and so does FeM. One team at the Chaos Communication Camp 07 and one at the Hockenheimring, recording and live streaming the events.
You may ask what “Formula Student” is…:
“Students build a single seat formula racecar with which they can compete against teams from all over the world. The competition is not won solely by the team with the fastest car, but rather by the team with the best overall package of construction, performance, and financial and sales planning.
Formula Student challenges the team members to go the extra step in their education by incorporating into it intensive experience in building and manufacturing as well as considering the economic aspects of the automotive industry. Teams take on the assumption that they are a manufacturer developing a prototype to be evaluated for production. The target audience is the non-professional Weekend-Racer, for which the racecar must show very good driving characteristics such as acceleration, braking and handling. It should be offered at a very reasonable cost and be reliable and dependable. Additionally, the car’’s market value increases through other factors such as aesthetics, comfort and the use of readily available, standard purchase components.
The challenge the teams face is to compose a complete package consisting of a well constructed racecar and a sales plan that best matches these given criteria. The decision is made by a jury of experts from the motorsport, automotive and supplier industries. The jury will judge every team’s car and sales plan based on construction, cost planning and sales presentation. The rest of the judging will be done out on the track, where the students demonstrate in a number of performance tests how well their self-built racecars fare in their true environment.”
Overview map of the event
As soon as the Live-Streams are available I will keep you updated…
Source 1: http://www.formulastudent.de
As ususal here’s the schematic overview of the things behind the curtain:
Source: http://www.implementierungsdetail.de/index.php?n=Main.TeamStreaming
Once again FeM is recording and live streaming a Chaos Computer Club event. The Chaos Communication Camp starts today and you can watch everything live:
“The Chaos Communication Camp is an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms. The Camp features two conference tracks with interesting lectures, a workshop-track and over 30 villages providing workshops and gettogethers covering a specific topic.”
Chaos Communication Camp 2007
The International Hacker Open Air Gathering
8|9|10|11|12th August 2007
Finowfurt near Berlin, Germany (Old Europe)
“You can participate! Bring your tent and join our villages. The Camp has everything you need: power, internet, food and fun. The 100.000 square meter areal features enough space to camp, cozy places to hang out and a nice pool and lake to swim and do nautic experiments.”
There are two lecture halls called “foo” and “bar”:
Live Stream (WMV) “foo”
Live Stream (WMV) “bar”
Of course like at every CCC event you can grab an up-to-date schedule called “Fahrplan” here. The only thing I did not mention yet is the FeM-Village Wiki page…oh well..done
Source 1: http://www.fem.tu-ilmenau.de
Source 2: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Streams
Source 3: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/Fahrplan/
Source 4: http://events.ccc.de/camp/2007/FeM_Village
Hmm.. maybe you would have missed it:
Source: http://channel8.msdn.com/
Today I had a talk about IP-TV in our local research network – a project I am involved in the past year. And since I did some of the legal and coding work (YAPS) I was the one who wanted to talk about it the most…
First here’s the slidedeck:
The talk was recorded and you can watch it as soon as the post-production team has finished working on it – I’ll keep you posted.
Source: Slidedeck as PDF
Namenlos wrote about how almost everything is held together at this years ISWI technically. Well he even draw something neat to look at and say “Look, that we did!”
“Die Audiostrecke wird mittels 6 Behringer Ultragain Pro-8 Digital ADA8000 aufgebaut. Diese Geräte nehmen 8 Kanäle Audio via XLR entgegen und setzen die auf eine ADAT-Verbindung über ein TOS-Link-Kabel um. Da die TOS-Links nur 10m weit gehen hängt an jedem Behringer ein ADAT-Extender, der das ganze gleich auf Glasfaser umsetzt. So kommt der Ton vom Studio zur Regie und zurück. Zusätzlich liegen noch 5 Strecken Video (so ein Fernsehsender ganz ohne Bild is ja auch nix.). Zum Abschluss verteilt in der Fischerhütte nochmal ein HP Procurve 2524 ein bischen Netz an die Surfterminals und die Leute vom ebenfalls dort beheimateten L.i.g.h.t. Projekt.”
And then deka came and created another drawing of the Live Streaming infrastructure:
Source: http://blog.slash-me.net/archives/225-ISWISION-2007-hat-begonnen.html
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