You Could Be Streaming by Tomorrow!

[Kory Hartman]

Just in time for the active weather that is shaping up...

SevereStudios is proud to introduce a new website and video service that we are offering FREE to the chaser community.

www.severestreaming.com

SevereStreaming is our new Windows Media streaming service. If you've ever thought about streaming live video from your chase vehicle, please sign up!

In addition to servers that can handle thousands of viewers per stream, we offer publicity by displaying your stream on SevereStudios.com, and complete technical support.

If you want to embed the stream on your own website, or if you are a media chaser who streams video back to a TV station, we have options for that as well.

I will do my best to answer any questions you have right here in this forum, or better yet, please email info@severestudios.com

Thanks!

[Andrew Revering]

I've used this service and am very happy with it. Works great, and you can get really good quality on faster connections, and even a decent quality at slower connections. Pretty simple to set up once you get the tools to get started.

[Bill Tabor]

Would 1XRTT connects be worth trying?

Also, I notice people keep having problems seeing the streamcast.

[Kory Hartman]

Yes, we have special configs for the slower 1xRTT cell speeds.

That's all we had in South Dakota until late last year and it worked fine.

The few problems we saw the last two days dealt with browser plug-ins and configuration issues on the VIEWERS side.

[Steve Miller OK]

I used 1xRTT connect all day yesterday once we got off I-35 and started heading east. A lot of the dropping video problems we had yesterday was the fact that it was the first day of streaming. For the first couple of hours we were in gee-whiz land and playing with settings prior to chaseable storms. Once we got off on a storm, we were in 1xRTT and in SE, OK having to reconnect in certain areas due to terrain. That said, I don't do a lot of chasing in the hills and generally have a great Sprint signal so I don't see it being a problem in the future (for my vehicle anyhow).

[Brett Adair]

I'm trying to figure out if I would be able to stream on my autonet unit. Anyone have a clue or have any of the other testers tried?

[Dennis Sherrod]

Hey Brett. I am not sure, but isn't Autonet just a wireless router? If so, I would think it would work with your laptop.

[Kory Hartman]

As long as the Autonet has an external antenna, anything would be better than just an air card sitting on your front seat.

[David Drummond]

External antenna is a must.

I was having problems holding the stream because of the hills in SE OK yesterday. I would just have to restart it and keep going. Signal gets week when you drop in the little valleys between those hills. If your down in one long enough, the stream error out and breaks. Signal gets too weak. Never week enough I lost GRL3 data however.'

Overall in two days of running it, I am extremely please. I will be doing this probably every chase now.

[Jim Saueressig]

David, I watched you and Steve and though Steve did stay connected more than you by far your video was 3 times as good. Was resolution / bandwith an issue? The second of each of your pictures was pretty near the same time for comparison. ( posting you twos images for comparison / tech info )

David:






Steve:








As for the website the videos on the main page display fine in IE but me and many others use Firefox now and on my Firefox the video being displayed wasn't resizing so you only seen about 20 percent of the upper left corner of it on that page.

Overall the site seems to be a great idea and has some potential.