Folks it turns out the roster is extremely terran heavy right now and TvT doesn't make for good viewing. If there are any Zerg or Protoss US platinum players who wish to play this evening, drop me a PM or email at shoutcraft@cynicalbrit.com and I'll get you in for tonight's show at 12pm EST.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 08 2010 15:26 GMT

#162

Well looks like that sorted itself out nice and quickly, thanks guys

I'll be going live at the top of the hour, including a potentially explosive best of 3 between eeK and Psyonicreaver and plenty of wildcard showmatches.

http://tinyurl.com/shoutcraft

Cirno

Canada168 Posts

May 08 2010 15:47 GMT

#163

you're a great shoutcaster TotalBiscuit. Keep up the awesome work. =)

Psyonic_Reaver

United States4343 Posts

May 08 2010 15:51 GMT

#164

Thanks for having me on, but I'm pretty sure eeK is gonna wail on me hard. =p He's a very good Zerg.

Masq

Canada1792 Posts

May 08 2010 17:02 GMT

#165

Oh you crazy brit.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 08 2010 19:00 GMT

#166

Thanks again to everyone for hopefully the last stream on Livestream. Not only did it randomly disconnect for no apparent reason but at the end, Procaster crashed. AWESOME SHIT.

If anyone knows anything about setting up Ustream please let me know.

kael13

United Kingdom48 Posts

May 08 2010 23:04 GMT

#167

Entertaining matches, shame about the stream! Speak to Day9 about using Ustream, his dailies look great on it

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 10 2010 19:02 GMT

#168

New 1080p VoD from Saturday

Psyonicreaver vs Eek -

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 12 2010 08:25 GMT

#169

SHOUTcraft EU will air tonight at 7pm BST/8pm CEST/2pm EST as usual. Sadly we'll still be on Livestream this evening, efforts to move to Ustream are still ongoing, screen capture software refuses to cooperate at present.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 12 2010 17:55 GMT

#170

And we're live ladies and gents. http://tinyurl.com/shoutcraft - Will be going for 2 hours this evening to ensure that the show ends right before HDH.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 12 2010 20:40 GMT

#171

After some research, it turns out that the livestream problems may be to do with a nasty caching bug with the latest version of Procaster, whereby it's killing the performance gradually overtime until it spits out a 'low bandwidth' error. I've downgraded so we'll see how that works tomorrow.

Ustream tests are ongoing.

LaustinSpayce

United Kingdom58 Posts

May 12 2010 21:23 GMT

#172

I love your shoutcraft series mate, keep up the good work and good luck with sorting out your streaming errors. Maybe see if you could ask other casters as to what their workarounds are?

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 12 2010 22:16 GMT

#173

On May 13 2010 06:23 LaustinSpayce wrote:
I love your shoutcraft series mate, keep up the good work and good luck with sorting out your streaming errors. Maybe see if you could ask other casters as to what their workarounds are?

I'm pretty sure most of their workarounds involve not being stuck on a UK ISP, 2 miles away from your exchange. That said, it's not just a bandwidth issue.

I've got a selection of screencap software to try and plug into FME. I'm familiar with FME, it's easy to use, but I used to plugin via a capture card, not screencap software. A couple that I've tried don't seem to work, so it's just a case of bashing away at it until something does.

In the meantime, hopefully this older version of Procaster does not cause the same errors. We'll find out tomorrow.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 13 2010 13:39 GMT

#174

SHOUTcraft BIO is live tonight broadcasting the second week of the British and Irish Open. Featuring plenty of stellar matches including the well-known DeMusliM who will be competing this evening.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 13 2010 18:20 GMT

#175

Well, needless to say things have gone to hell thanks to B.net being down. Will provide updates as to whether or not there will be a show tonight as we go along.

mbmonk

United States16 Posts

May 13 2010 20:24 GMT

#176

This is a half thought out idea. But when I am watching sports ( I believe that is what you are patterning this after to some degree ) I love it when broadcaster use the telestrator. Like this for example:

So this works great for NFL/NBA football because there are frequent breaks in the action. Which may not be the case in a SC game. They can be non stop action for very long periods of time.

But maybe you could do something similar to a "play of the game" after the match is finished. So you cast the game and the very last segment of the broadcast (which you could name a drop a sponsor - "Nvidia Play of the Game") have someone use the telestrator and show a key flank, or positioning of units, etc.

It would seem be almost impossible to do this in a live cast, but if you are publishing the video after the game then that would give you time to put together a little segment like that.

Keep up the great work.

EDIT: If you had the proper technology then you could use the telestrator on the live feed and then clear off the markings with a press of a button, similar to the NFL. That way you could use it live and not have to wait for a break in the action.

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 15 2010 13:28 GMT

#177

IMPORTANT

SHOUTcraft has successfully migrated to Ustream and all live shows will be broadcast here going forward. Quality right now is roughly the same as Livestream, slightly better in places and my new internet connection is scheduled for installation on the 25th of this month, at which point I can more than double the bitrate. VoDs are also functional and should be fully watchable without any irritating splitting anymore.

NEW STREAM URL, I AM SO EXCITED - http://tinyurl.com/shoutcraft2

Show will air today at 5pm BST/6pm CEST/12pm EST

TotalBiscuit

United Kingdom5437 Posts

May 15 2010 15:57 GMT

#178

SHOUTcraft is Live! though you'd be best watching Day[9]'s stream and switching to ours when it's done. Should be live for several hours, if everything goes to plan.

roemy

Germany432 Posts

May 15 2010 16:09 GMT

#179

...
what made you switch to this full-screen ad crap with ad sound...?

also: ads loading makes the stream stop once every minute for up to 5 sec 8[

also: best placement of the ustream live logo.... 8[

also: key frames were invented a couple of decades ago 8[

don't want to leak onto the parade, but this exodus just isnt a good idea