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It boggles my mind that a 12 year old playing DOTA can reliably stream to an audience but NASA can't figure it out. EDIT: Seems they've swapped their stream fo

It boggles my mind that a 12 year old playing DOTA can reliably stream to an audience but NASA can't figure it out. EDIT: Seems they've swapped their stream for the ustream one, guess they can.

jbjorge 12y ago
The number of viewers might be a bit different.
- dogma1138 12y ago
  Yes, DOTA gets more views :(
- Untit1ed 12y ago
  Admittedly looking at the figures on ustream it's a lot more popular than I thought it'd be, but still less than the higher end of what you see on Twitch, and they don't get to plan when a stream goes viral.
  - dogma1138 12y ago
    I would love to see NASA's PR people get their heads out of their arse and actually stream on Twitch, also won't mind CERN doing it. And yes while it might not get as many view's as the latest goat simulator bench play presented by an ex-porn star in a bikini it surely can expose tons of people to things that actually matter.
  - eterm 12y ago
    Twitch has had massive growing pains, it's taken them a very long time to get to a point where they are smooth under load. For a long time the LCS broadcasts were always very stuttery on twitch, so much so that streams were also set up on Youtube and Azubu to help. About 6months - 1yr ago twitch suddenly got a lot better in this regard but I certainly wouldn't expect NASA to do a better job than a site dedicated to streaming. (The 12yr old playing the game is a red herring, they're just streaming to twitch.) Twitch previously were Justin.tv but switched to gaming as clearly it was a fast growing niche, otherwise their old platform would have been suitable for factual content like this.
    - Untit1ed 12y ago
      > The 12yr old playing the game is a red herring, they're just streaming to twitch That was basically what I was getting at though - if the 12 year old can stream off their home broadband to twitch reliably for free, why is NASA bothering with their own, worse streaming solution? But to their credit NASA responded very quickly, took their own streaming off and embedded ustream instead, so I guess I don't really have anything to whinge about.
CHY872 12y ago
Does it though? Does it really?
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chinpokomon 12y ago
What boggles my mind is that NASA TV is blocking the ability to stream to a Chromecast device. I can't fathom what they think they are protecting. I first noticed the problem when I wanted to watch the Rosetta landing and blew it off as an odd technical problem with my Chromecast that I needed to fix. Trying it again this morning, I realized that this must be something NASA TV is actively blocking. I've never seen this specific behavior on any other site.
- mikeyouse 12y ago
  Hmm.. I didn't watch Rosetta via Chromecast and I slept through this morning's activities, but I didn't have any problem casting a few videos from their site and the current 'live stream' (although it's a Ustream link right now). I have ran into streaming issues in the past, but I don't think it's a site specific thing as much as it was Chromecasts lack of support for Silverlight. To watch Amazon Prime videos for instance, you need to go to some obscure setting and force Amazon to serve up Flash videos. Does NASATV normally use Silverlight? That might be the explanation.. Although the last comment on this Reddit post indicates it's potentially something NASA could fix; http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/28cz98/will_chromecast_ever_support_silverlight/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/28cz98/will_chro...
- jheriko 12y ago
  > I realized that this must be something NASA TV is actively blocking that is a very strong conclusion to come to from two coincidental data points and no concrete evidence...
  - chinpokomon 12y ago
    Maybe not NASA themselves since it looks like a third party host, but the way it displays the error, it looks like a conscience decision. Most video hosting sources go right through unless it's a .flv, Silverlight, or code to detect Chromecast and block streaming.

It boggles my mind that a 12 year old playing DOTA can reliably stream to an audience but NASA can't figure it out. EDIT: Seems they've swapped their stream for the ustream one, guess they can.

jbjorge 12y ago

The number of viewers might be a bit different.

dogma1138 12y ago
Yes, DOTA gets more views :(
Untit1ed 12y ago
Admittedly looking at the figures on ustream it's a lot more popular than I thought it'd be, but still less than the higher end of what you see on Twitch, and they don't get to plan when a stream goes viral.
- dogma1138 12y ago
  I would love to see NASA's PR people get their heads out of their arse and actually stream on Twitch, also won't mind CERN doing it. And yes while it might not get as many view's as the latest goat simulator bench play presented by an ex-porn star in a bikini it surely can expose tons of people to things that actually matter.
- eterm 12y ago
  Twitch has had massive growing pains, it's taken them a very long time to get to a point where they are smooth under load. For a long time the LCS broadcasts were always very stuttery on twitch, so much so that streams were also set up on Youtube and Azubu to help. About 6months - 1yr ago twitch suddenly got a lot better in this regard but I certainly wouldn't expect NASA to do a better job than a site dedicated to streaming. (The 12yr old playing the game is a red herring, they're just streaming to twitch.) Twitch previously were Justin.tv but switched to gaming as clearly it was a fast growing niche, otherwise their old platform would have been suitable for factual content like this.
  - Untit1ed 12y ago
    > The 12yr old playing the game is a red herring, they're just streaming to twitch That was basically what I was getting at though - if the 12 year old can stream off their home broadband to twitch reliably for free, why is NASA bothering with their own, worse streaming solution? But to their credit NASA responded very quickly, took their own streaming off and embedded ustream instead, so I guess I don't really have anything to whinge about.

CHY872 12y ago

Does it though? Does it really?

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chinpokomon 12y ago

What boggles my mind is that NASA TV is blocking the ability to stream to a Chromecast device. I can't fathom what they think they are protecting. I first noticed the problem when I wanted to watch the Rosetta landing and blew it off as an odd technical problem with my Chromecast that I needed to fix. Trying it again this morning, I realized that this must be something NASA TV is actively blocking. I've never seen this specific behavior on any other site.

mikeyouse 12y ago
Hmm.. I didn't watch Rosetta via Chromecast and I slept through this morning's activities, but I didn't have any problem casting a few videos from their site and the current 'live stream' (although it's a Ustream link right now). I have ran into streaming issues in the past, but I don't think it's a site specific thing as much as it was Chromecasts lack of support for Silverlight. To watch Amazon Prime videos for instance, you need to go to some obscure setting and force Amazon to serve up Flash videos. Does NASATV normally use Silverlight? That might be the explanation.. Although the last comment on this Reddit post indicates it's potentially something NASA could fix; http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/28cz98/will_chromecast_ever_support_silverlight/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Chromecast/comments/28cz98/will_chro...
jheriko 12y ago
> I realized that this must be something NASA TV is actively blocking that is a very strong conclusion to come to from two coincidental data points and no concrete evidence...
- chinpokomon 12y ago
  Maybe not NASA themselves since it looks like a third party host, but the way it displays the error, it looks like a conscience decision. Most video hosting sources go right through unless it's a .flv, Silverlight, or code to detect Chromecast and block streaming.