Video Stream -

[Bugman 384]

Thanks guys, i'm pretty excited! :)

[Ganzohnesushi 546]

Wohoo... I can see the Dohyo.... Thx for running this thread.

Ganzohnesushi

[Huschnu 5]

Using 480p to record will not work for me

I needed to modify Step 5:

5. Edit the shortcut, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Livestreamer\livestreamer.exe" http://www.ustream.tv/channel/grand-sumo-tournaments best

Edited September 14, 2013 by Huschnu

[Fay 1,677]

Thanks a lot everybody :-)

[Asashosakari 20,223]

FWIW, same bitrate and resolution as on Akamai before.

[Asashosakari 20,223]

Using 480p to record will not work for me

I needed to modify Step 5:

5. Edit the shortcut, "C:\Program Files (x86)\Livestreamer\livestreamer.exe" http://www.ustream.tv/channel/grand-sumo-tournaments best

Yes, there are only 240p and live (same as best) available.

[Asojima 2,874]

Ustream went active at 08:25 JST. Only Logos so far.

Day 1 - Live on the dohyo at 08:31 JST

-- First match at 08:37

-- Video very good. Sound very good.

-- Zoom does not work since it went live, but not really needed.

-- Click the arrows in lower right to go fullscreen, Esc to come out of fullscreen.

[ALAKTORN 346]

A better, commercial free link

I’m still getting commercials with this link… and missed a match because of it. Pretty annoying.

[Asojima 2,874]

A better, commercial free link

I’m still getting commercials with this link… and missed a match because of it. Pretty annoying.

Arrrgh! The commercials started after they went live. See above for ways to avoid them. (Free AdBlock Plus in Firefox and Chrome}, (Simple Adblock or others in IE - IE guys are partial protection after 30 days without purchase)

[Asojima 2,874]

Araibira is alive and well and posting the Aki matches in the SumoDB!!!! (Applauding...) (Applauding...) (Applauding...)

[bettega 433]

I'm kind of excited here - my first live and I could understand the matches, understand the names (a little), Watching Kaminoyama x Daishiryu in Jonidan !!!

Cool :D

[Benevolance 2,534]

I had an ad when the stream started, but nothing since. Are other people having ads inserted into the stream, as well?

[bettega 433]

No ads here - Chrome 29 with AdBlock

[Benevolance 2,534]

Aw, crap. I jinxed myself. It served me three commercials in a row. Time for adblock!

[yade 14]

stream works fine with vlc (2.0.8) using

http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustreamVideo/15844301/streams/live/playlist.m3u8

for those who better like to watch and save files with vlc.

thx to Kraz!

[Asashosakari 20,223]

Speaking of which, I finally figured out how to get around the "recording cuts off after one chunk" problem...it doesn't cut off if I activate the "display the output" option.

Remaining problem: It's only a 240p version of the stream, although the bitrate of this (apparently iPhone-targetted) stream is just about as high as that of the regular 360p stream.

[torquato 1,075]

I'm very much relieved that we have a full coverage live stream and that you guys can make the recordings. I was a bit worried...

Wondering why the NSK changed the underlying services. Ahh, got it now. This way they can promote the stream to a broader audience otherwise not explicitly looking out for Sumo.

Try to put ustream's link to this page and use generated .m3u8 playlist in vlc player during coverage.

That's really a great hint! Tried to figure out the underlying stream link myself but failed.

For me http://iphone-streaming.ustream.tv/ustreamVideo/15844301/streams/live/playlist.m3u8 in VLC seems to be of a bit lower quality (more artefacts) than the webstream. Or is it just me?

[Kintamayama 47,178]

The quality is much lower than what we're used to (which is not HD..). It reminds me of that word that you use when describing feces, except it starts with an s and ends with a hit.

Total.

[Akinomaki 41,739]

There will be some entertainer reporting live about the basho on niconico, starting at 8 a. m. JST. Apparently without images of sumo, I guess only the guy with his headset

http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv152381609

Like expected or worse. He seems to be commentating on the NHK images, at least there is no delay to the live stream – the stream here in Germany used to be at last 5 seconds behind the real live coverage of NHK. I don't know if there is a delay in Japan now, anyway the comment has the same delay.

This is something for those who would like to have a Japanese commentary while watching the stream – for me it is just disturbing the sound of the kokugikan, which I prefer to any comment.

If the commentators would only speak when no yobidashi or gyoji is chanting and the sound in the hall be audible as clear as on the stream now, it would be perfect.

For me the video quality is acceptable like before, but the sound has improved with Ustream.

[Morty 1,518]

For me (in Australia) the video quality was really good, much better than the previous NSK service, but the feed crapped out at the start of the Ozeki bouts and from there on I had to rely on Araibira's youtube channel to see the rest

[Asojima 2,874]

For me (in Australia) the video quality was really good, much better than the previous NSK service, but the feed crapped out at the start of the Ozeki bouts and from there on I had to rely on Araibira's youtube channel to see the rest

Ustream is much more reliable than it was in past years. It still loses the live stream now and then. If you freeze up or go black,

a. Cursor to the Ustream window and hit F5 on the keyboard.

b. If no go, go to the top and do a refresh on the URL.

c. Next, try clearing cache and then refresh the URL.

d. If all fails, bail out of the browser, and restart it.

e. Reboot, and start all over.

f. Cuss a lot.

Edited September 15, 2013 by Asojima

[Kintamayama 47,178]

The only complaint I have is that the stream is in .ts format and not the .asf of yore. WMM does not recognize .ts files, so I have to convert them to .avi and then start working, which is a big PITA with no falafel.

[Asashosakari 20,223]

FWIW, I've now adapted huschnu's method so that Livestreamer simply saves the raw stream instead of getting VLC to save it with the .ts wrapper. Need to convert it afterwards just like Kinta does (I'm using an MP4 container instead of AVI though), but at least with last night's files the raw version behaved much better than the one that was a .ts file in between, which proved difficult to crop afterwards and didn't display properly in WMP either, only in VLC. I got around the cropping problem by reconverting to AVI eventually, but the display issue stayed.

Of course, I have the advantage that I'm just working with one big file at the start instead of tons of small recordings like Kinta and araibira do, so the conversion to MP4 isn't much of an issue for me, other than the fact that it took some 20 minutes.

[Asashosakari 20,223]

And it looks like I was wrong last night...I'm not sure if the reported bitrate I saw was just wrong or if they reduced it after a few minutes, but in any case, the overall bitrate is lower now even though the audio stream uses up a lot more (it's now a 128 kbit stereo stream instead of the 48 kbit mono they used before). Most H264-encoded video I've seen looks great even at low bitrates, but the Kyokai's stream seems to be pushing against the practical limit for 360p video now. Lots of jagged edges.

This might be a function of watching the pure stream - I didn't look too closely yesterday because I didn't have the pure version for comparison yet, but the browser-based version via Flash Player seemed to look better, so I'm not getting my hopes up for a change in bitrate.

Edited September 15, 2013 by Asashosakari

[Kintamayama 47,178]

Of course, I have the advantage that I'm just working with one big file at the start instead of tons of small recordings like Kinta and araibira do, so the conversion to MP4 isn't much of an issue for me, other than the fact that it took some 20 minutes.

I have switched to recording 5 bouts in each batch (around 4 batches per day)-much quicker to work with (I can tell when a bout starts just by looking at the audio ) and this way WMM doesn't crash on me anymore. But this conversion thingy is cramping my style AND biting off another nice chunk of my free time.