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by **spiritdancer2** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:49 am

Haven't found the link. Anyone know if it's gonna be up this year? Thanks!

by **countrybitch** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 7:15 pm

I've got to check in with my home, if only virtually this year. I'm sooooo homesick!!! :twisted:

by **stego_s_aurus** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:25 pm

Looks like theres an unofficial cam on playa being sreamed on ustream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/burningman-live

As of this monday evening its very buffery, but at least its something! Am trying to determine where its at...

by **spiritdancer2** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 9:34 pm

[quote="stego_s_aurus"]Looks like theres an unofficial cam on playa being sreamed on ustream:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/burningman-live

As of this monday evening its very buffery, but at least its something! Am trying to determine where its at...[/quote]

Yikes. This is like trying to listen to a song you love 1 second at a time. Aaaargh!

by **Dactyl** » Mon Aug 31, 2009 11:54 pm

Thanks to all who are getting this up and running....and BMIR too...I'm dying to hear that stream :P

Have a great burn from someone who's default life is keeping him away from home :/

by **lennyjones** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 9:43 am

I'm working on a list of media feeds from the playa for burners stuck at home.

here's what I've got so far.

PHOTOS

http://www.rgj.com/ DAILY PHOTOS reno paper
http://www.sfgate.com/burningman/ PHOTOS SF newspaper
http://blog.burningman.com/?cat=31 PHOTOS

RADIO

http://www.bmir.org/ currently down

TV

http://www.currentv.com/ usually broadcast segments and the burn

a few more

http://burncast.blogspot.com/ blogs from the playa

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/burningman-live WEB CAM

Anybody know any others?

stuck in LA
Lenny

by **-xx-** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:59 am

The BMIR feed is actually up and running, although not as well as last year. I'm not sure if they are in charge of the live webcam feed or not, but that is also up (and down) with ranger chatter @ http://www.ustream.tv/channel/burningman-live. For BMIR feed, try opening the .pls file @ http://listen.shoutingfire.org:12345/listen.pls in itunes, realplayer or winamp, or better yet foobar. (I found foobar2000 seems to handle web streaming better than most programs, as it has very little else to do). Please post any new web feeds here for all of us stuck away from home this year (especially video feeds). Thanks!!

by **-xx-** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:14 am

OK, nvrmind! I believe Lenny Jones may be right. That .pls for the BMIR feed just keeps opening the same feed over and over. It sounds like a pre-recorded podcast. I know that last year BMIR's Eric started shoutingfire @ http://www.shoutingfire.org/ and was podcasting from there in BMIR style after the burn. That must be where the BMIR redirect is going. Anybody?!?

by **Dactyl** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:10 pm

thanks lenny!

...ya nothing seems to be streaming currently... those pics from the reno paper rock tho.

This guy got some nice shots..looks pretty whiteoutish during that day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4UyeiZfAEw

by **lennyjones** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:15 pm

the web cam from
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/burningman-live

has BMIR+ranger chatter.

it mostly spins around 360' but we get an occasional zoom.

so dusty!

by **spiritdancer2** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 3:13 pm

Video is a lot less buffer-y, glitchy compared to last night. Maybe just less people watching (counter shows 94 right now). Ah, feels good.

by **stego_s_aurus** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 10:39 pm

Holy Cats!! 516 viewers as of 10:38pm, and the feed and audio is Gorgeous!!! Great to see they got it straightened out!!!

by **-xx-** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:03 pm

Video stream is far less glitchy than earlier, with more than 500 viewers! Camera is FAR better than last year, and close-ups have sensational resolution, given the circumstances. But the audio, anyone else been hearing mostly feedback for the last four hours? BMIR is still audible, as is chatter, but hard to hear over buzzing. Sounds like someone left an audio send turned up on a mic sitting in the audio shack next to the transmitters, or doesn't have a signal line fully plugged in, or some type of power ground loop... Anybody else hearing this??

by **-xx-** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:05 pm

[quote="stego_s_aurus"]Holy Cats!! 516 viewers as of 10:38pm, and the feed and audio is Gorgeous!!! Great to see they got it straightened out!!![/quote]

just noticed this post, maybe I'm the one w/ audio issues?

by **Fire_Moose** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 10:37 am

only thing this is missing is temp and wind direction/speed

by **Hoolie** » Fri Sep 04, 2009 11:24 am

That would be here:

http://www.burningman.com/preparation/e ... ather.html

Currently 82 degrees, with wind blowing south at 1 mph.

Oh man, that sounds perfect...

by **stego_s_aurus** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:38 pm

By the sounds of it, it seems that those running the camera have a mic set up next to the radios to allow the radio to be transmitted over the ustream feed: All they'd need to do is cover the whole setup with a box to keep the wind from blowing on the mic and the feed would be perfect!!

by **stego_s_aurus** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:07 pm

Wow: Just for the record, its 9:06pm EST, the burn hasnt happened yet due to high wind and dust, and theres 4223 viewers on the ustream channel, and the feed is still gorgeous. I sure thank all those working the event, and hope that everyone out there is doing well through the huge dust storm and wind thats going through...

by **Hoolie** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:34 pm

10:35pm and still not burning...what's up?

by **Captain Goddammit** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:44 pm

6500 viewers from Camp Envy!
I dunno, it seems high time to light the goddamm thing. It's always on Playa Time though.

by **TD-2441** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:59 pm

It's 6am in England and I've got up to watch the burn but all I have is a damn BLANK SCREEN and sound. So p*ssed off

Can they sort a webcam that will cope with a larger capacity next year? I've been watching the feed all week and now when it's the Burn, I see nothing. GUTTED :cry:

by **Hoolie** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:34 pm

Whew...this is a loooooong burn. Pretty awesome though.

by **TD-2441** » Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:41 pm

I can see it now

since the feed numbers dropped. Can't wait to be back there next year!!!

by **stego_s_aurus** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 10:37 am

The final bit of the Burning Man (after the arms fell off looked like a Spear, which finally turned into a Burning Y before it finally dropped), came down at 00:04 Sunday Morning. That was a Very long double-header burn, am hoping everyone had fun watching the burn, I sure did!!

The Camera Crew is just awesome for manning the camera during the burn, Thank you for doing so! (Makes me want to return the favor to the camera operators by me volunteering to do the manning when I finally do go to the playa).

(Camp Envy! I LIKE that :)

TD-2441:
Am sad that you missed the burn: Ustream seemed to hold up well here in California... Am curious now: Did anyone else from farther away on the planet have problems accessing the stream?

by **TD-2441** » Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:09 pm

I'll be back at 6am UK time to watch the Temple burn - looking dusty out there though, hope it's not delayed for too long as I have to get ready for work at some point too!

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