Discussion: City of Heroes Freedom is now on Twitch.TV!
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Arcanaville,
Posted on: 2012-06-12 16:37 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Yeah, got an iMac, looking forward to that feature. Actually, was most disappointed that the rumored apps for AppleTV didn't happen, a native ustream and now twitchtv client would be best.|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
The first time I saw myself on the big screen (aka; a theater screen) I cringed...a lot.
Not sure if you're a Mac user or not, but with Mountain Lion hitting next month, you'll be able to AirPlay from a MacBook if you like. So you could use your bigscreen as an extended desktop and have the chat client open in your laptop display. It's enough that it's making me consider actually investing in an Apple TV. |
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As for the puns, well, No Phule like an old Phule.
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Andy Belford
Community Manager
Paragon Studios
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Have you tried:|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Thank you for your offer, but I'm pretty sure they'll offer the same advice that I'm already following:
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1. Reinstalling Windows
2. Switching internet providers
3. Stealing a neighbor's computer and using that
4. Moving physically closer to twitch.tv's main data center
5. Having some children and asking them look at the problem when they reach the age of five
6. Standing outside Zwillinger's window and viewing the broadcast live
If none of these work, I believe you should consider escalating to level 2 tech support.
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#1: At some point, it is going to happen anyway.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Have you tried:
1. Reinstalling Windows 2. Switching internet providers 3. Stealing a neighbor's computer and using that 4. Moving physically closer to twitch.tv's main data center 5. Having some children and asking them look at the problem when they reach the age of five 6. Standing outside Zwillinger's window and viewing the broadcast live If none of these work, I believe you should consider escalating to level 2 tech support. |
#2: No.
#3: In a worst-case scenario, I'll abduct the computer I just built for my parents.
#4: I'm not sure I know where that is.
#5: As per the Evil Overlord rule list, I always have a 5 year old advisor. Note: I don't pay them, but keep them around for testing ablative shielding.
#6: I'm sure that would violate the 959 mile restraining order. (I'm in the process of getting my Passport.
)I'm pretty sure the memory isn't an issue as CoH routinely uses all available memory (and more) without the same signs.
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My go-to response for most non-obvious computer troubles is:|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Have you tried:
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1) Turn off the computer and modem
2) Turn off and unplug the power bar
3) Unplug the computer and modem from the power bar
3b) If it's a laptop, pop the battery out for a couple seconds, then put it back in
4) Wait about ten seconds
5) Reconnect everything
6) Plug it all back in
7) Turn it all back on
Mystifyingly, this works like a charm nine times out of ten.
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How about turning off hardware accelerated video in the flash player?
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
I'm pretty sure the memory isn't an issue as CoH routinely uses all available memory (and more) without the same signs.
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Originally Posted by Triplash
My go-to response for most non-obvious computer troubles is:
1) Turn off the computer and modem 2) Turn off and unplug the power bar 3) Unplug the computer and modem from the power bar 3b) If it's a laptop, pop the battery out for a couple seconds, then put it back in 4) Wait about ten seconds 5) Reconnect everything 6) Plug it all back in 7) Turn it all back on Mystifyingly, this works like a charm nine times out of ten. |
Yep, after working with computers for any length of time (more than 1 month) you'll come to find out, "wow, rebooting does work..."
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I've hung this next to several monitors at work as a reminder to that user to reboot before they put in a work order.
99% of the time they don't need me after that.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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That I haven't tried yet. I'll do that.|
Originally Posted by Arcanaville
How about turning off hardware accelerated video in the flash player?
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(edit: Vista & Win 7 don't allow that setting.)
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I've hung this next to several monitors at work as a reminder to that user to reboot before they put in a work order. 99% of the time they don't need me after that. |
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I'm just curious as to why you don't just host the archive or for that matter the live streams on you know YOUR WEBSITE.
If you want to find something you have to look on your website, and the forums, and facebook, and twitter. Now add Twitch.Tv and youtube. Damn this is just stupid. 1 site all info. Your site, your control, your game, your players. Get the picture. I for one am not hopping all around to find your stuff. No thanks.
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I do understand wanting it all in one place, and we do our level best to make sure that we reference all of our Community outlets from cityofheroes.com, however we're not going to be shying away from exploring new Social Media outlets anytime soon, especially ones that offer exposure to a huge gamer audience. |
Originally Posted by GPBunny
I'm just curious as to why you don't just host the archive or for that matter the live streams on you know YOUR WEBSITE.
If you want to find something you have to look on your website, and the forums, and facebook, and twitter. Now add Twitch.Tv and youtube. Damn this is just stupid. 1 site all info. Your site, your control, your game, your players. Get the picture. I for one am not hopping all around to find your stuff. No thanks. |
Remember that we need to continue to draw new faces to COH, and that requires bringing the mountain to Mohammed sometimes.
Andy Belford
Community Manager
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I heard a cursory answer back from Twitch indicating that it might be a Flash related issue. Nothing more as of yet.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
That I haven't tried yet. I'll do that.
(edit: Vista & Win 7 don't allow that setting.) |
Andy Belford
Community Manager
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I run Win7 ultimate x64.|
Originally Posted by Snow Globe
That I haven't tried yet. I'll do that.
(edit: Vista & Win 7 don't allow that setting.) |
Try going to a flash video site that works, say youtube, and right click on a video there. Select Settings, and uncheck hardware acceleration. Then open a different browser tab to twitch.tv. It should still be disabled. See if that helps.
Note: its settings, not global settings, and its set in the applet, not in the control panel.
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I'm getting that. Thank you very much for following this up!|
Originally Posted by Zwillinger
I heard a cursory answer back from Twitch indicating that it might be a Flash related issue. Nothing more as of yet.
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My current Plan "B" if all else fails is to view the stream with my laptop and use my IRC client on my desktop. I might do that anyway as it allows me to surf the forums while watching.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
I run Win7 ultimate x64.
Try going to a flash video site that works, say youtube, and right click on a video there. Select Settings, and uncheck hardware acceleration. Then open a different browser tab to twitch.tv. It should still be disabled. See if that helps. Note: its settings, not global settings, and its set in the applet, not in the control panel. |
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This seems to have worked. I hope it works for the live stream as well.
Edit 2:
Sigh... Yup, nvidia/flash 10 hardware acceleration issue.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
Remember that we need to continue to draw new faces to COH, and that requires bringing the mountain to Mohammed sometimes.
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Mohammed called. He wants you to get that mountain of dirt out of his driveway. Srly.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
Yeah, I looked in the global settings.
Edit: This seems to have worked. I hope it works for the live stream as well. Edit 2: Sigh... Yup, nvidia/flash 10 hardware acceleration issue. |
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My post had nothing to do with your issues, it was a response to Energizing_Ion's post directly before mine.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
The BSoD kindly did that for me 3 times. |
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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I know. I was just pointing out that resetting wasn't working for me.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
My post had nothing to do with your issues, it was a response to Energizing_Ion's post directly before mine.
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You know, his plans never work.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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If you see a road runner running past your house, I would recommend unplugging your computer.
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Originally Posted by Snow Globe
You know, his plans never work.
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Also, for those of you who have problems using the web chat interface (or just hate it), you can use a regular IRC client to log into the chats.
You will need your Twitch.TV username and password.
Server: ParagonStudios.jtvirc.com
Port: 6667 (Default)
Channel: #ParagonStudios
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This week, on the iPad, had no problems whatsoever with chat. It's just that the video feed would die every minute or so. *sigh*
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The chat and video stream on the computer here at my office were both extremely smooth. A vast improvement over uStream.
The video stream on my iPad (3rd Generation) was lagged about 10 seconds or so behind the video stream on the computer and after about 30 seconds or so would die and go to a garbled green screen.
The chat did work very nicely on the iPad this week.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.
Interesting... the the video was extremely choppy on my laptop (but at least it didn't crash).
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If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
Black Pebble is my new hero.