SSRT: DC-XA Flight Live Internet Video

["L. Parker" <lparker@gnt.net>]

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>Subject: SSRT: DC-XA Flight Live Internet Video
>Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 18:01:53 -0600
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>From: david42@bix.com (david42)
>Newsgroups: sci.space.science
>Subject: DC-XA Flight Live Internet Video
>Date: 5 Jun 1996 18:10:53 GMT
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>An experimental video distribution system will be tested during the
>6/7/96 flight of the DC-XA at White Sands.
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>Live video at approximately 10 frames per second, monochrome, will
>be sent via telephone link from the guest viewing area to a video
>server on the Internet.
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>Also, after the flight, the video will be available on the server
>for access via web browsers. This is a cooperative effort between
>the Lunar Teleoperations Model I, DCSN, pTv and McDonnell Douglas.
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>To view live video, web browse the site www.diaspar.com, select
>user web pages and then pTv. pTv is making their experimental Internet
>video software available for the DCXA flight event. Look for the
>latest information on the pTv web pages and system announcements.
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>There are several viewers available. The latest version runs under
>Windows 95 and allows live viewing as well as "playback" of video
>files on the server. Other versions run under Windows 3.x and play
>back video but do not receive live video. All viewers work with
>popular web browsers - you download the viewer and then set your
>"MIME table" or "File Types List" to include capability to receive
>and play the video sequences.
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>We are not sure at this time of bandwidth capability, final features,
>flight times, etc. Please consider this to be highly experimental,
>dependant on a lot of things working just right and some luck!
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>Contact for technical details and assistance is gavinroy@diaspar.com
>and contact for space-related matters is david42@diaspar.com
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>Since there is usually about a 24 hour turn-around on posts to moderated
>news groups, please browse www.diaspar.com for last minute updates.
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>If you can, download and test the viewer of your choice ahead of
>the flights. The server already has video from the "rotational
>maneuver" flight available for viewing. And, if the server can not
>handle a large load during the flights, check back a few minutes after
>each flight to play back the flight video.
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>David H. Mitchell
>LTM1
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