Eleran Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Haven't had a tech issue with DCI Live all year until tonight. Broadcast would freeze for a few seconds and then pick up live. I tried backing it up a few minutes to let it buffer and it did the same thing. ... Anyone else have issues like that? Seattle area on Comcast Xfinity Same here. New Jersey on Comcast Xfinity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbbandman Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 i will but i'm not sure they can do anything about it hot weekends seem to always have the worst technical problems here in central wa for some reason Same problems - I am on xfinity (comcast) in Spokane area Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyonepointthree Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 Didn't have any issues other than the actual video feed still sucks. It must be overly compressed or something that on a 27" monitor it looks fuzzy. Any of you Comcast viewers have problems before Friday night? I had flawless broadcasts until Friday. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbbandman Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Any of you Comcast viewers have problems before Friday night? I had flawless broadcasts until Friday. The broadcasts have been much better this year - until Friday night. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caliswift Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Have they? I feel like the stability is better but the actual video is significantly worse. I'd challenge that's actually HD quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyonepointthree Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 Have they? I feel like the stability is better but the actual video is significantly worse. I'd challenge that's actually HD quality. Last night's broadcast had issues for me but when it was good it was really good. Last night's audio was maybe the best in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedJazz1900 Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Is there any way to hide the status/"Go Live" bar at the bottom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clutchtow Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) I wish there was a good way to let DCI know what we want. I mean, its really just 2 things: 1) Video compression is way to heavy. Give us the option to get full 720p out, or even better, 1080p. 2) Let us hide the status bar at the bottom. Honestly those are the two things they need to fix for this platform, everything else seems to be fine for me. Edited July 30, 2016 by Clutchtow 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shofmon88 Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I wish there was a good way to let DCI know what we want. I mean, its really just 2 things: 1) Video compression is way to heavy. Give us the option to get full 720p out, or even better, 1080p. 2) Let us hide the status bar at the bottom. Honestly those are the two things they need to fix for this platform, everything else seems to be fine for me. I've found that the video doesn't scale resolutions very well. I've been streaming it at true 720p resolution, and it is quite sharp (though exceedingly small on a 27" retina iMac). This seems to hold true for all of DCI's products. The 2014 DVD, for example, looks terrible if you try and play it at anything larger than 720p, and even then, it is obviously downsampled. Another oddity I've noticed this year is that some of the streams are actually interlaced, and not progressive. You lose edge acuity in this case, and interlaced video doesn't translate well on modern screens. As for the status bar, I have no clue why they don't hide that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clutchtow Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I've found that the video doesn't scale resolutions very well. I've been streaming it at true 720p resolution, and it is quite sharp (though exceedingly small on a 27" retina iMac). This seems to hold true for all of DCI's products. The 2014 DVD, for example, looks terrible if you try and play it at anything larger than 720p, and even then, it is obviously downsampled. Another oddity I've noticed this year is that some of the streams are actually interlaced, and not progressive. You lose edge acuity in this case, and interlaced video doesn't translate well on modern screens. As for the status bar, I have no clue why they don't hide that. Chat support said they are working with neulion to get the status bar fixed. As for the compression, it's not just improper resolution scaling (although that's probably part of it), you can see the artifacts from the encoding/compression more than 1 pixel out. Its really easy to see on the overlays around the white text, and as members move, you can often see blurs behind them. Also yeah, the streams being interlaced is probably a problem as well, but I don't know enough about the difference between p and i to see that, I'll trust you on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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