I emailed mobile app support asking when Live Video would be available on the iPad app through M2M. This was their response:
For all you M2M / iPad users out there....
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Why would an HD stream be required? The iPad isn't even true HD and it certainly can show standard def video without a problem. The problem is that M2M has flash all over it and the iPad won't work with flash. As someone who writes web based applications for the iPad that email sounds like complete ******** to me.
mainly because they really don't really have a reason to lie about it. Also, this isn't a completely custom app for our school; it's through a company called NeuLion. The main reason I sent the email in the first place was because I saw that NeuLion, the company that provides the iPad app, has a similar app for other schools (Oregon, Texas A&M, etc) that provideslive streaming. In fact, we were the only school with NeuLion that I saw that did not have this functionality in the app. In other words, it could very well be something on our end that isn't compatible with NeuLion's way of doing things. The HD explanation sounded good enough to me.
At any rate, I'll hopefully be watching some baseballs games on the iPad this season in HD.
At any rate, I'll hopefully be watching some baseballs games on the iPad this season in HD.
"HD" is now just a gimmick catch word. Define "high"...<div>HD just means you are watching the clearest of the available feeds. I do not think there are standards set for naming and quality when it comes to streaming.<div>
</div><div>But I do agree that the rep who answered that question is a dubmass.</div></div>
</div><div>But I do agree that the rep who answered that question is a dubmass.</div></div>
part of my job is writing applications for the iPad (well, technically I manage a team that does that but I write code as well). I also specifically stated that the iPad is not true HD and that the video resolution doesn't matter. So again, explain to me WHY you think the HD explanation sounded good enough to you? Because as a computer person I can tell you without any doubt in my mind that the video signal being in HD has absolutely nothing to do with playing on an iPad. It's possible, but laughable, but possible, and again laughable, that they have written their code in such a way that the standard def stream can't go to their new site code (although you would almost have to put work into doing something so dumb). If that is the case then MSU really should fire these guys right away because you could pickup a 16 year old kid who writes better code.humpback said:
Sounds like they are either making a full blown iOS app or they are taking the flash off the M2M site to allow video streaming. About damn time.
I don't write applications (nor do I manage a team that writes applications). I just want to watch some baseball games. So if Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake, or the kid from Jurassic Park that writes all the code in that Facebook movie could call the people who handle M2M/Hail2TheState and let them know where they're going wrong (i.e., the HD explanation), I'd greatly appreciate it (and according to the Facebook movie, so would Asian chicks).
And for the record, the HD explanation was good enough for me too...apparently they're working on it. There are apparently 10 types of people in this world....those who understand binary code, and those who don't. I'm a member of the latter type.
And for the record, the HD explanation was good enough for me too...apparently they're working on it. There are apparently 10 types of people in this world....those who understand binary code, and those who don't. I'm a member of the latter type.
It's the connection that's holding them up. They are supposed to be installing fiber to that area of campus. The new fiber will bring with it HD capability. Instead of this guy trying to explain fiber optics/connection speeds/etc, I'm sure he just used the HD term because most average people understand what that is.
http://www.hailstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=205322359&SPID=11006&SPSID=105453
From the link:
FACILITY UPDATE
As the dirt work continues just north of us behind the Palmeiro Center, we met with key members from JESCO, Inc., Construction and Design this week to begin laying out the timeline and construction plans for the Leo Seal Jr. Football Complex. The dry fall has allowed us to get a good start toward meeting our construction timeline goals.
We are closing in on finalizing the schematic designs for the expansion of Davis Wade Stadium with our national architect 360 out of Kansas City and our local architectural firm LPK from Meridian. We hope to maintain our original time frame of beginning some preliminary work during 2012.
Drawings for a new clubhouse at the Mississippi State golf course are also nearing completion. Those documents are currently being reviewed before moving forward.
The resurfacing of the competition courts at the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre should be finished, including striping. Our tennis coaches are chomping at the bit to get back on their playing surface.
We mentioned in this column last week of the plans at Dudy Noble Field, which will include a distributed sound system, including approximately 60 speakers around the facility. We are also running the fiber from the central part of campus to the far north end to service Humphrey Coliseum, the softball field and the tennis courts. The goal in baseball is to upgrade the existing video board, which is high-definition ready, to receive an HD signal, and replace the message board below to make it more operational. That fiber connection will allow us to begin video streaming competition (softball, tennis, and track) in high definition by this spring.
We also wrote in this space a week ago that graphic treatment will be added to both the softball field and the practice facility at the stadium, and banners honoring Rafael Palmeiro’s gift (indoor practice facility) will be added to the Palmeiro Center.
http://www.hailstate.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=16800&ATCLID=205322359&SPID=11006&SPSID=105453
From the link:
FACILITY UPDATE
As the dirt work continues just north of us behind the Palmeiro Center, we met with key members from JESCO, Inc., Construction and Design this week to begin laying out the timeline and construction plans for the Leo Seal Jr. Football Complex. The dry fall has allowed us to get a good start toward meeting our construction timeline goals.
We are closing in on finalizing the schematic designs for the expansion of Davis Wade Stadium with our national architect 360 out of Kansas City and our local architectural firm LPK from Meridian. We hope to maintain our original time frame of beginning some preliminary work during 2012.
Drawings for a new clubhouse at the Mississippi State golf course are also nearing completion. Those documents are currently being reviewed before moving forward.
The resurfacing of the competition courts at the A.J. Pitts Tennis Centre should be finished, including striping. Our tennis coaches are chomping at the bit to get back on their playing surface.
We mentioned in this column last week of the plans at Dudy Noble Field, which will include a distributed sound system, including approximately 60 speakers around the facility. We are also running the fiber from the central part of campus to the far north end to service Humphrey Coliseum, the softball field and the tennis courts. The goal in baseball is to upgrade the existing video board, which is high-definition ready, to receive an HD signal, and replace the message board below to make it more operational. That fiber connection will allow us to begin video streaming competition (softball, tennis, and track) in high definition by this spring.
We also wrote in this space a week ago that graphic treatment will be added to both the softball field and the practice facility at the stadium, and banners honoring Rafael Palmeiro’s gift (indoor practice facility) will be added to the Palmeiro Center.
Save that vitriol for the bears. You ask for an explanation but then you answered your own question. It looks like a matter of our infrastructure being incompatible with NeuLion's offering per MStateDawg's post. Maybe they used ****** cookie-cutter code. Maybe MState should have gone with someone else. I don't know. For the record, I'm also a "computer person", and have worked a great deal with web technologies of many types. Hence my curiosity in the first place. And the Flash front end of the M2M website has nothing to do with streaming the video to my iPad app.