TB, I have a small technical request.

Is there any chance of getting a stream-timer overlay for the full length of the stream and putting the replay stream to an on-the-hour schedule?

C'z it's a pain in the arse trying to get onto the replay at the right time, and you can't really tell where it's at without looking at the scores. It'd be nice if I could just go "Ohey, I've only missed 5 minutes..." or "Played 67 minutes? Nuts to this. I'll be back in 53 minutes..."

ClanWars

United States330 Posts

July 14 2015 13:35 GMT

#786

On July 14 2015 19:44 CashForSanity wrote:
TB, I have a small technical request.

Is there any chance of getting a stream-timer overlay for the full length of the stream and putting the replay stream to an on-the-hour schedule?

C'z it's a pain in the arse trying to get onto the replay at the right time, and you can't really tell where it's at without looking at the scores. It'd be nice if I could just go "Ohey, I've only missed 5 minutes..." or "Played 67 minutes? Nuts to this. I'll be back in 53 minutes..."

That's not possible to do.

CashForSanity

22 Posts

July 14 2015 15:07 GMT

#787

On July 14 2015 22:35 ClanWars wrote:

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That's not possible to do.

ClanWars

United States330 Posts

July 14 2015 15:09 GMT

#788

On July 15 2015 00:07 CashForSanity wrote:

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Essentially that implementation would have to be done on the end of MLG. They save the replays and the rebroadcasts are carbon copies of what was broadcast previously. They'd have to implement something in the backend that would tkae the length of the video and then super-impose a timer over it in the videoplayer. Putting it in the video itself would require a full re-encode of the video which is extremely time consuming. There's also the obvious problem that having a timer like that would act as a spoiler. Additionally, rebroadcasts don't have scheduling functionality as of yet on MLG, once you hit the button, they loop until you tell them to stop.

CashForSanity

22 Posts

July 14 2015 15:50 GMT

#789

For the timer, I kinda meant just use whatever composite setup you've got and do it on the live feed too. And not anything fancy, just a clock ticking up, so it's not giving away the total match time.

And, yeah, if you jumped in at 80 minutes, you obviously know it's not likely to be a 4-0 roll, but that's information you'd have without the timer too, just by seeing the players and/or the score being right next-to their names.

But more importantly:

The scheduling. What the fuck? Why would they even build their system like that? It's not even that hard to code into it. It's literally just putting in a CRON job to reset the replay, or maybe a scripted command line call to their video server to mess with the playlists. Or if they're half-assing their setup, just completely kill the per-channel daemon and restart the whole thing.

It's like maybe twenty minutes worth of (competent) coding. o_O

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37061 Posts

July 14 2015 16:12 GMT

#790

On July 15 2015 00:07 CashForSanity wrote:

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Did Ash die again?

The_Red_Viper

19533 Posts

July 14 2015 16:28 GMT

#791

Euh so who won, liquipedia doesn't make much sense :D

CashForSanity

22 Posts

July 14 2015 16:31 GMT

#792

On July 15 2015 01:12 Seeker wrote:
Did Ash die again?

Firstly, Ash is the only Pokemon Master that I recognize. Him, Misty and Brock constitute the entirety of my acknowledgement of the Pokemon cartoons. He lives forever and all is well.

Secondly, no. That image is now a representation of my feelings towards MLG's streaming technology.

From looking at some of their job vacancies, it looks like they might be using individual Node.js microservers to stream for each channel.

So, yeah, they could just have scripts or CRON tasks set up to perpetually kill and reboot the stream at a user-defined interval.

They could even probably allow live re-encodes for overlays on the server side without much trouble, but I'm a bit iffy on that, because my knowledge of Node.js as a video server is sketchy at best.

Yhamm

France7248 Posts

July 14 2015 19:54 GMT

#793

On July 15 2015 01:28 The_Red_Viper wrote:
Euh so who won, liquipedia doesn't make much sense :D

wow

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37061 Posts

July 15 2015 08:34 GMT

#794

On July 15 2015 01:31 CashForSanity wrote:

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Firstly, Ash is the only Pokemon Master that I recognize. Him, Misty and Brock constitute the entirety of my acknowledgement of the Pokemon cartoons. He lives forever and all is well.

This guy knows what's up.

Musicus

Germany23576 Posts

July 15 2015 11:51 GMT

#795

JD played well and nice for iNcontrol to take a map! Too bad it wasn't enough for EG.

PlayerSlotAvailable

Norway1 Post

July 15 2015 14:11 GMT

#796

Huge shame to see this tournament leave.
It has been the sole reason why I got interested in Starcraft 2 as an eSport (Only been interested in the lore up until now).
In the past when trying to get into StarCraft 2 it has been far too intimidating. Clan Wars on the other hand, with its peculiar maps and 2v2 games felt much more accessible.
Since this season started, I have even gone back to watch Season 1, as well as "I suck at StarCraft 2", Sandisk invitational, etc.

ClanWars

United States330 Posts

July 17 2015 23:55 GMT

#797

Somehow, Clan Who seems to have been told the wrong date. We're not sure how, since the calender shows the date and time in your local timezone and dateline. Got no players here, probably having to cancel this one too.

CashForSanity

22 Posts

July 18 2015 00:03 GMT

#798

User was warned for this post

CashForSanity

22 Posts

July 18 2015 00:10 GMT

#799

Actually, no.

I came here for fun and excitement from an SC2 match, and I won't let a little thing like reality get in my way.

As far as I'm concerned, the match is being played and I'm going to continue as such. Who's with me?

OMG LOL DID YOU SEE WHAT IAGUZ JUST DID!? WHO KNEW THEY'D PATCH IN ORKS FOR THIS LATEST LOTV BUILD!?

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