LIVE: Space Falcon 9 Flight 2 Static Fire - December 4, 2010

[Nate_Trost]

The web stream itself seems smooth (countdown clock isn't hitching), but the video feed from the pad to the web stream itself is pretty glitchy, you can see the venting freeze up every couple seconds.

[Chris Bergin]

Moved for live coverage as requested by a few people.

[stockman]

47 minutes and counting smoothly so far..

[Ronsmytheiii]

looks like the live pad shot is gone

[Cog_in_the_machine]

Might I suggest everyone set the quality to low? Might help.

You have to disable auto-adjust first though, or it might switch it back to high immediately after you set it to low, like it does to me.

[Robotbeat]

looks like the live pad shot is gone

[Ronsmytheiii]

T minus 45 minutes

[Robotbeat]

It's back!

[ugordan]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

[Robotbeat]

[Herb Schaltegger]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

You'd also think that such a company could stream in a format that the millions of iDevices out there could watch, since some of us can't use company PCs to follow along at work.

[Cog_in_the_machine]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

Technically speaking, isn't http://bitgravity.com/ delivering the feed and not SpaceX themselves?

[FinalFrontier]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

Now now, remember their primary function is not entertainment, its spaceflight. Still you have a point.

[Robotbeat]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

You'd also think that such a company could stream in a format that the millions of iDevices out there could watch, since some of us can't use company PCs to follow along at work.

The stream works for VLC, and you can get VLC for iPhone (and probably Android)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id390885556?mt=8

[Ronsmytheiii]

New t-0 time 17:48:00

[Mapperuo]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

Technically speaking, isn't http://bitgravity.com/ delivering the feed and not SpaceX themselves?

The feed itself is fantastic, The clock isn't pausing. It's the actual video. It's like Space X is sending the video via internet to somewhere else, where the graphics are added then sent out.

Ideally they should input the video right into the stream server, But that might not be possible on site.

[ugordan]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

Technically speaking, isn't http://bitgravity.com/ delivering the feed and not SpaceX themselves?

Oh, they're delivering the feed all right. The clock is smoothly counting and encoding noise is smoothly shimmering at a smooth frame rate. It's the actual video/audio feed that arrives at the point where it's encoded that's dropped on the way. Obviously dropped before Hawthorne since they obviously have it themselves and replace the feed with a logo every so often.

[Robotbeat]

Dang, the feed is gone again...

[Herb Schaltegger]

Wow, 6 months later their video and audio feed from the pad is still abysmal. You'd think a space launch company would manage to NOT drop stream packets that often.

You'd also think that such a company could stream in a format that the millions of iDevices out there could watch, since some of us can't use company PCs to follow along at work.

The stream works for VLC, and you can get VLC for iPhone (and probably Android)
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id390885556?mt=8

VLC for iOS doesn't play streaming media, only static files loaded via iTunes sync (I have the app).

[Jester]

It's the pad microwave link (or whatever they are using) that seems to hickup, not the "studio" feed or bitgravity

And it's in flash format, you lot on idevices complain to Jobs not implementing it properly....

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