> -----Original Message----- > From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 9:57 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: help getting college football game over internet(kinda > urgent) > > I am hearing http://www.slingmedia.com/ but I am not sure that solves > your > problem. I think you may not have enough time. My co-worker thinks you > may > be able to get one at Best Buy.
Sling Box (from Sling Media) should do it, but it might need a little explaining. Basically it's a hardware solution that sits on a TV Line (cable, satellite, rabbit-ears, whatever) and "broadcasts" whatever you see on your TV to an Internet site/application. So basically you'd set up the Sling Box at home (or some other place that can receive the game AND has a good broadband upload speed) and then receive the Stream at the church. It's a popular little doo-hickey - you DON'T need a computer at the source (but I believe you need one to initially configure it over the network). However you can do the same thing with a computer and TV Tuner card using streaming media software. Orb software (http://www.orb.com) is free and does this (it needs a decent speed computer since it transcode video streams into Flash Video in real time). However all of these streaming solutions are susceptible to all the issues you'd expect. Even in the best of scenarios the video is highly compressed for transmission - it looks good but will NOT look as good as TV. In most cases however you're going to see drop outs, frame skips and the like - with good connections on both ends it should be watchable but nobody is going to really be fooled that it's "TV". That said since you're streaming the TV signal yourself it may very end up better than a dedicated online streaming service (since they're streaming for lots and lots of users they may very compress the signal more. Stupid question but is the game going to be on regular TV? Might it be simplest just to run an old-fashioned (or an HD antennae if these folks are all high-tech - most local stations do over-the-air HD now) antennae to the roof? For that matter is there a neighbor that does have cable that will let you run a wire willy-nilly from their place to the TV? A cable line (on that's not split since cable signal strength is reduced dramatically by splitters) should hold a decent signal for as much as a few hundred feet. A direct connection will be much more reliable than any sort of network streaming. In any case you might want to bring in a DVD or two as backup just in case! Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246972 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
