Anybody know when the replay of fort william DH will be available to watch on freecaster, I can get about 5 seconds at a time with the streaming and its doing my head in so hopefully watch it later tonight. Cheers.

Its fine for me!! 😉

Fine for me too.

The replays usually don’t work until the day after they put them up, dunno why?

I bet those 2 thirty something guys at the finish area are going to regret all their gesticulating to the camera when they see the replays…

Aye it’s slideshow tastic for me too 🙁 . It was perfect for the first round a couple of months back. Ever since then though it’s been un watchable for me :(.

Fine for me too, just hope it holds out for the Chumba rider Duncan Riffle and Peaty!!

Working ok for me, but couldn’t even get a connection before. Keep trying!

On eurosport,although terrible coverage.No technical sections.

The coverage is pretty lacking on Freecaster too.

*edit*
It just got better…

Hmmm, was working fine then cut to an advert. Now connection probs…bum.

serious outages

if this keeps up I giving up!

Arggh it’s gone just before the top riders!

the ‘commentator’ on eurosport annoys me so much. he’s from road cycling and knows nowt
“Aaah Iron horse, a famous brand in downhill, like Yeti and, err others”

tit

are you watching on standard or low definition? if you’ve got a low bandwidth and trying to watch on standard def it will be a slideshow?
went down grumm but straight back up. bryceland up there at the mo…

It’s working ok now.

god damn flash player. Full screen = 5 fps on a 2.2ghz Core2Duo.
Exactly what CPU do you need to get smooth playback?!

Wish they’d offer a QuickTime stream or something as well

Reckon it’s more likely bandwith than CPU that’s the issue – I’m on a similar processor and full screen is perfectly smooth.

That Sam Hill is a well slow…. 😯

5.72 up!!
fingers crossed for peaty…

Advert destroys my stream on the finishing straight of Hill’s run. Won’t reconnect. BUGGER!

Advert destroyed my stream earlier. Weirdly switching from Firefox to Safari allowed me to reconnect.

Im down. Grr

Reckon it’s more likely bandwith than CPU that’s the issue – I’m on a similar processor and full screen is perfectly smooth.

nah, it’s smooth when in a tiny window, when you make it fullscreen you can see both cores pegged, the fans are all running full blast too.

It’s the flash plugin doing scaling in software I assume (resolution = 1366×768)

Race is good tho 🙂

ran fine for me with only a couple of weird shots of a scott gambler on screen for 10 seconds or so!!

ran fine full screen for me too btw.. and im using a 1.4Ghz Athlon in my HTPC!!

Well the commentary was much better than Eurosport’s!

great almost all they way through on my crappy laptop (couple of minutes of downtime before the last 8 )
equal to TV quality when connected to the TV too 😀

ran fine full screen for me too btw.. and im using a 1.4Ghz Athlon in my HTPC!!

Maybe flash is just shite on OSX then

I’m on a Mac (Macbook) too 😉

I’m on a Mac (Macbook) too

What version of Flash (Help>Installed Plugins on Safari) ?

Hmmm, something else going on then…

It’s even crap at full screen on pootube. I’d say 50% fps drop

10.0 r22 – youtube is fine in fullscreen for me as well.

10.0 r22 – youtube is fine in fullscreen for me as well.

same vers here.

just tried watching highlights on 3 different macbooks, they all have the same problem. Two are X3100 Santa Rosa (2.2ghz, 2GB ram) one is a GMA950 1.8ghz.

I reckon i’m just more anally retentive about these inconsequential things than most people 🙂

if its bad for loading,i put freecaster on pause it and go do something else for half an hour while it keeps loading then come back and watch it

Solution is to untick this box, and restart browser.

CPU usage still high, but no longer erratic framerate.

It’s really not even slightly jerky in full screen for me, no different to in the browser window, but if you don’t want to believe me… 😛

I’m using Safari 4 if it makes a difference.

Highlights 10:30am Eurosport2 if anyone’s interested.

Maybe flash is just shite on OSX then

Flash is rubbish on OS X. Adobe are supposed to be writing an iPhone version, but IMO they need to sort it out for Mac first!!