What do you think of Freecaster?

[cam@nsmb.com]

If you haven't seen it check out the links on our Video Page (http://www.nsmb.com/videos/index.php) to get the idea.

Thanks for the feedback. If you are running a mac it runs strangely with Safari but it works fine.

[TheGiggler]

don't work on mozilla / Linux / MPlayer.

MPlayer doesn't recoginze this specific .mov format:

Playing http://sports.freecaster.com/Req_Moviea/launcher.mov.
Resolving sports.freecaster.com for AF_INET...
Connecting to server sports.freecaster.com[213.136.32.123]:80 ...
Cache size set to 300 KBytes
Connected to server: sports.freecaster.com
Cache fill: 6.67% (20500 bytes) QuickTime/MOV file format detected.
Compressed header uses zlib algo!
Compressed header size: 601 / 1725
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MOV track #0: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 0)
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MOV track #1: 1 chunks, 0 samples
Generic track - not completely understood! (id: 1)
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MOV: longest streams: A: #-1 (0 samples) V: #-1 (0 samples)
No stream found.


Exiting... (End of file)


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note that the other quicktime and windows media vids on your site (mostly) work fine with this combo... otherwise i probably wouldn't be mentionign this. :)

[mr_fungle]

It plays for me on OSX with Camino. Not a bad option, but doesn't allow you to save the movies.

[IFO]

hmmm didnt do anything in my quicktime player on the PC...

loaded the quicktime wqindow then just satyed that way...

im on DSL so it shouldnt be a dowload bandwidth problem...

:(

[JSinclair]

Originally posted by cam@nsmb.com
Thanks for the feedback. If you are running a mac it runs strangely with Safari but it works fine.

I had absolutely no problems running it on my Mac in Safari. Pop up window came up with the Braun advertising and it launched the QT window with no issues...

Maybe your pop up windows are disabled Cam? That might give you an issue.

Cool compression though, Picture was quite clear.

The new QT compression format for 2005 looks awesome....Can't wait.

[G-Ball]

No problems for me running XP - awesome picture and sound too!

[Ralph Wiggum]

Originally posted by G-Ball
No problems for me running XP - awesome picture and sound too!

same here

[the flying moose]

worked for me no problems.

that sucks for steve. crashing so close to the finish. and that 4x course was really cool looking.

[Rynee]

works fine with win 2k as well. great stuff. the fullscreen feature is pimp.

edit: what's with the commentator (correct word?) during fabien's run though? sleepy head? :???:

[ghostrider]

yeah, no problems on XP here. I kind of dug the shots taken by cameras...way more than you normally see on regular TV. Did freecaster just grab the rights from the host network or do it themselves I wonder?

[Uncle Duke]

Originally posted by JSinclair
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no problems running it on my Mac in Safari.

Maybe your pop up windows are disabled Cam? That might give you an issue.
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i turned off my pop up window blocker and then they played well.

[Ashek]

Doesnt work with my win2k sp2 IE6
Opens the window, the QT comes up trying to load the file open.php, and its nada.

[seand]

i hate ads, but hey, you need them anymore.

works for me in:

win2k/xp in ie, firefox
linux in firefox
linux in ie
mac in ie
mac in safari
mac in firefox

havent tried anything else.

[cam@nsmb.com]

Thanks for the comments all - very helpful.

[Troup]

Meh...I'm not a big media guy...

[freeeeeerider]

Won't work for me. unknown error.

[mudpuppy]

I tried to post this morning...but Telus went down...weeeeee.

Anyway, It worked for me, but it was REALLY slow to load (tried this morning and again now.). The quality is great though.

I am using firefox 0.9.2, XP pro and Telus ADSL.

[switch]

Originally posted by Ashek
Doesnt work with my win2k sp2 IE6
Opens the window, the QT comes up trying to load the file open.php, and its nada.

Exact same results for me. WinXP SP2 and QT v6.

[Universe]

Same with XP SP1 and Quicktime Alternative.

[Mountain Dewd]

I thought it worked really well, and was very impressed, it loaded quickly with dsl and even the full screen had good resolution and the sound quality was nice.

It worked first try with mac os 10.3.4 and safari.

I liked it, just wish there was more than like the 4 clips to watch, but it was filmed well and everything, sucks that the world cups and stuff arent on oln in the states anymore, so this is a good alternative for now.

[Loopie]

XP, FF 0.9.3?, shaw cable.....zero problem:)

[Formulaphoto]

I liked it, and it was cool to be able to watch the full runs (I was there, but missed Peat's crash because I was further down the course).

I was surprised to see a segment of RISE on Freecaster though! Now I just need to find out who gave them the rights to that! lol

Good quality stream, and quick dl.

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