7.3 million total viewiers

I bet you USTREAM didn't get 7.3Meg total viewers this week. NO CHANCE. AZ has 39,000 members. Which includes everyone who ever posted (dead or alive). That would mean every single AZ Member visited 187 times.

Remember that Ustream has bots (artificial automated users) that seem to come in and out. This could be where the big number comes from.

Nick
 
saddlebow said:
18,342 of the views were me.... kept getting knocked off, froze, whatever....
seriously, that number has to be wrong, but at the end of it who cares, it's great stream and as long as it's streaming Im watching..
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Me too. The one I liked would be the viewer size would reduce to 75% of the original size every 5-10 minutes. The only way to correct this including F5 would be to close the browser and restart it. I was good for 100 views alone.:grin:
 
I figured it out

It was Earl's fans logging in and out to see if they were dreaming when he was playing Landon :help:
 
Its views not viewers.It could be everytime you refresh your browser its like logging out and back in?Still even with logging in and out and refreshing thats a large number.They are on FB and every other social network,there is a share button on the webpage.Even if tens of thousands of peeps who have no intrest in pool clicked on the link 7.3 mil is a huge number.Must be a glitch in the sytem or in the way views are counted.


For me audio is the biggest problem with live streams.sometimes the comercials are incredibly loud compared to the comentary,watching with headphones can dangerous.

The free live streaming this week was great.I watched off and on all day and into the wee hours.Alvin was entertining,the mods did a good job and there was some good commentary.I don't doubt that they set records in numbers for live streaming pool.
 
7.3 million is flat out impossible.

I appreciate that JR and Alvin do what they do.

But I do have some serious complaints regarding fundamentals that I will keep to myself.

I also know JR and Alvin could care less about any complaints.
 
Roadie said:
What did they not find? They didn't find any ongoing information about the event, nothing about the rules, nothing about how to play more pool, nothing about the players, nothing about pool in general unless they happened to get lucky enough to tune in when JR Calvert was in the booth and speaking. Otherwise what they got was mostly silly commentary that bordered on ridiculous or dead air. Other than the few times where a good match up took place they did not find professional class pool being played.

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Overall I think the stream was excellent. There is such a huge difference between doing a live stream from an event and being able to edit the final production to minimize dead spots. A live stream is bound to filled with uninteresting or dull spots; that is just the nature of the beast.

Thanks to Inside Pool for doing that. I saw several great matches and thought it was as good as could have been done.
 
FreeShot said:
Overall I think the stream was excellent. There is such a huge difference between doing a live stream from an event and being able to edit the final production to minimize dead spots. A live stream is bound to filled with uninteresting or dull spots; that is just the nature of the beast.

Thanks to Inside Pool for doing that. I saw several great matches and thought it was as good as could have been done.
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Though there could be a little less singing in the booth.
 
The problem with these single feed streams comes from both the amount of bandwidth at the source in Tunica, and the amount you have to receive it. I actually work with streaming events for a living, and anything that is free comes with drawbacks.

The best streaming is what is called adaptive bitrate, and more and more companies are doing it, but it cost money to deliver the content, due to the bandwidth.

Hopefully more events will go to this in the future. It basically sends out multiple streams at different bandwidths, and adjust the stream every couple of seconds to match your available bandwidth. Definitely the way to go.....
 
The problem with these single feed streams comes from both the amount of bandwidth at the source in Tunica, and the amount you have to receive it. I actually work with streaming events for a living, and anything that is free comes with drawbacks.

The best streaming is what is called adaptive bitrate, and more and more companies are doing it, but it cost money to deliver the content, due to the bandwidth.

Hopefully more events will go to this in the future. It basically sends out multiple streams at different bandwidths, and adjust the stream every couple of seconds to match your available bandwidth. Definitely the way to go.....
 
FreeShot said:
Overall I think the stream was excellent. There is such a huge difference between doing a live stream from an event and being able to edit the final production to minimize dead spots. A live stream is bound to filled with uninteresting or dull spots; that is just the nature of the beast.

Thanks to Inside Pool for doing that. I saw several great matches and thought it was as good as could have been done.
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I don't agree that it was as good as it can be done. I listened to the commentary and understood that they have three cameras and the ability to insert commercials instantly.

So with that in mind the following things could have been done to fill dead space.

1. Move cameras towards the ongoing matches whenever possible. This was done to some extent and we were grateful for it.

2. Have interesting interviews on tap to play when there is no match.

3. Allow players or interesting people in the industry to hold court and field questions. Again this was done somewhat and was often interesting. Please have less of John Bertone though. Clearly Kamui got it's money's worth due to it's spokesperson's immense amount airtime. I feel that some scheduling would be nice.

4. Have some sort of clip that explains the rules and the game. This is not only for the casual viewers but also for the die-hards who might not be familiar with the particular format and rules.

5. Have some volunteers to be the chat coordinators. Not just moderators but able to coordinate when there are interviews, to slow the chat down and ask for questions from the audience.

6. Stop sounding high on air. Personally, and this is completely my opinion, some of the commentary sounded as if the person speaking was drunk or high. I am not asking for people to be monotonous and cold. I am saying that the nonsensical random stuff is not in-line with a professional image.

Granted some of this requires more staff than what was apparently available. If I understand it correctly the staff consisted of Alvin and JR Calvert. Knowing JR from various events I assume he was doing a lot of running around and networking leaving Alvin to run the stream. This was certainly a lot of work. I personally would not want to be sitting behind the console for as long as they did. So please take these suggestions as suggestions for improvement in the future.

For example having good content such as engaging interviews fills space and allows for breaks. It's good for the viewers who have already seen it as they can take breaks and know when to come back and it's good for new viewers to see what is new content for them.
 
Tribal Guy said:
The problem with these single feed streams comes from both the amount of bandwidth at the source in Tunica, and the amount you have to receive it. I actually work with streaming events for a living, and anything that is free comes with drawbacks.

The best streaming is what is called adaptive bitrate, and more and more companies are doing it, but it cost money to deliver the content, due to the bandwidth.

Hopefully more events will go to this in the future. It basically sends out multiple streams at different bandwidths, and adjust the stream every couple of seconds to match your available bandwidth. Definitely the way to go.....
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Hopefully the onsitepool network will take care of many billiard streamers in the future. They have FMS running with HTTP HDS/HLS adaptive streaming. I will all be able to switch over the IP hardware in the field very soon.

But your right.. For as many adaptive streams you want to provide for the end user, you have to send multiple streams up the server. 1.2k 500k 300k, so you're looking at a sustained upstream of 2mbits. And if you want to include Apple Adaptive, then, you need 4mbits of sustained upstream. But nonetheless, at least everyone is aware of the problem, and there are people working on it.

Zach.
 
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Roadie said:
I don't agree that it was as good as it can be done. I listened to the commentary and understood that they have three cameras and the ability to insert commercials instantly.

So with that in mind the following things could have been done to fill dead space.

1. Move cameras towards the ongoing matches whenever possible. This was done to some extent and we were grateful for it.

2. Have interesting interviews on tap to play when there is no match.

3. Allow players or interesting people in the industry to hold court and field questions. Again this was done somewhat and was often interesting. Please have less of John Bertone though. Clearly Kamui got it's money's worth due to it's spokesperson's immense amount airtime. I feel that some scheduling would be nice.

4. Have some sort of clip that explains the rules and the game. This is not only for the casual viewers but also for the die-hards who might not be familiar with the particular format and rules.

5. Have some volunteers to be the chat coordinators. Not just moderators but able to coordinate when there are interviews, to slow the chat down and ask for questions from the audience.

6. Stop sounding high on air. Personally, and this is completely my opinion, some of the commentary sounded as if the person speaking was drunk or high. I am not asking for people to be monotonous and cold. I am saying that the nonsensical random stuff is not in-line with a professional image.

Granted some of this requires more staff than what was apparently available. If I understand it correctly the staff consisted of Alvin and JR Calvert. Knowing JR from various events I assume he was doing a lot of running around and networking leaving Alvin to run the stream. This was certainly a lot of work. I personally would not want to be sitting behind the console for as long as they did. So please take these suggestions as suggestions for improvement in the future.

For example having good content such as engaging interviews fills space and allows for breaks. It's good for the viewers who have already seen it as they can take breaks and know when to come back and it's good for new viewers to see what is new content for them.
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Really? Seriously? ESPN type of commentary and stats is a long way out. :) Patience.
 
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