Archive through July 12, 2002
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The ClubHouse: General Discussion Archives: Archive Two: Argh Feeds Suck: Archive through July 12, 2002

Jayman

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Am I the only one who gets The feed is unavilable even when you try to access them via the BB3 website. And If you even try to get the Direct URLs they expire after a hour anyways.

Ryanc2002

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not having problem with going to the CBS site for feeds.

Treasure

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Make sure you have all cookies enabled in both the RealOne browser, AND your regular browser (ie, netscape, aol, etc).

The Direct URL's expire so nobody gets the feeds for free.

If all else fails, call Real tech support. The more frustrated you are (or sound), the more likely you will be to get an extension on your free trials.

Therlin

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I guess 1 hr is better than 30 mins like last year. I have yet to time out, I've never watched the same feed for over 1 hr.

To access the feeds I just open the real player and click on the big brother icon. You can also go to the view menu, favorites, and bookmark it (in real player)

Oregonfire

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yes, I open directly from Real Player, and open BB3 right up. Though like I noted in another thread, the picture has to be at 42% for me (size of my big toe) to see the HGs actually move. I didn't have that problem last year.

Ryanc2002

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 12:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
What kind of computer and internet connection do you have Oregon?

Oregonfire

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Sucky and suckier...no just kidding. I have a Sony, but only a 56K connection. Still, it was enough to get the job done last year.

Oh well, looks like I'll be pressing my face against the monitor to catch it all. How pathetic is that?

Lurknomore

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I have no trouble getting the feeds, and while there they are GREAT quality. (YaY DSL). That said, damn Real keeps crashing regularly. I don't think I've seen more than an hour straight since the feeds started. It's really starting to bug me, especially since half the time it's locking my system and I'm losing whatever else I am doing. And I need to get at least some work done during the day. This better improve or it's gonna be a loooong 3 months.

Adamblast

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think it's been established in the tech section that Real Player 8 works fine with the feeds once you've subscribed and got them set up... I may uninstall RealOne and re-install Real 8 tonight -- if it works I'll report it in the tech section -- that would solve the problem...

Ryn

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Biggest thing I have noticed is a "sync" issue - audio is sometimes 10 seconds ahead of the video....

grrrrr

Mare

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My feeds look like a stop-motion video! "They" better fix them cause I'm not happy about spending $29.99 for this. At least last year it looked more like watching a video on the PC. What I'm seeing now is ridiculous and makes me not even want to bother watching it.

Treasure

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 01:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It would be nice it if were that simple! (But it ain't). Real is a legacy system... which in plain English means every time that there's a problem, they "fix" it by just rewriting over it - and praying.

Imagine that your whole city's electrical power system could be jeopardized every time anyone changed a lightbulb and you come fairly close to seeing what is wrong at Real and any other company using an outdated platform.

Not to mention that ownership at Real keeps changing hands every 18 to 36 months and "how things are done around" there, changes all the time. The left hand has no idea the right exists, nevermind what it is doing. (e.g. some of us got extended free trials, some didn't).

Hurah for those that are NOT having problems with Real, but that doesn't magically make it work for the tons of folks having to deal with it when it fails. That's like answering someone who was run over by a bus with "Well, *I* walked across the street just fine, safe and sound."... So? You know.

That Real works great for some and crashes on even mega memory, cable modem machines for others only *establishes* that it's an unstable, quirk filled monstrosity. (Like the US economy?!)

Did I mention I don't like Real very much? ;o)

Cathie

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 02:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
RealOne is working great on my PC - the audio and video are much better than last year's RealPlayer 8Plus. I haven't watched for any great length of time, though - usually can only sneak in 30 minutes at a time - so I guess the true test will come this weekend...

Jhezzie

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 02:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My RealOne was fine until I did the upgrade for the sneak peak. I can't imagine that I will be wanting to part with my buckage only to have the thing crash every couple of minutes.:(

Angelbleu

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 02:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I love the quality of the picture and sound and the features but what I don't like is what a resource hog it is....I have 256 ram too

Oregonfire

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 05:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
All of the cameras are on Marcelase, Lori, and Amy in the backyard. Are the other HGs voting now or something? Just curious.

Keiffer

Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 06:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think the person directing the feeds must be a woman. For like the last hour you had the three hotties laying in the yard talkin, and at the same time four dudes workling out. There were two feeds on the dudes working out, and none on the women. COme on let us guys have some fun too!

Delilah

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Feeds have been great til now (well apart from the sometimes "slow-mo" picture and audio delay) but now I can't get on at all, I am getting "XML: Mismatched tag near line 54: </par>" error message. I am on hold with the folks at Real now, anyone else having this prob?

Oregonfire

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I was getting a message like that an hour ago, but it stopped after a few times and seems okay now.

It's still the Lizard Cam for now, so nothing juicy at the moment.

__Tera

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Delilah, I was having that problem too. Click here. The reloader link worked for me.

Delilah

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:13 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Oregon It is back now, Eric is feeding the critters and the sound and audio are in sync, for the moment....

Oregonfire

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:18 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
:) Actually, this is the message that I got:

SMIL: No <smil> tag found

'cause I'm getting it again now! I'll go to Tera's link and try to sort it out.

Lawyerman

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:26 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you're getting a message that says, "SMIL: No <smil> tag found" then you're probably trying to connect to F3. Try the other feeds. No one is getting F3 right now according to other BB web sites. The other feeds are working cuz I'm watching right now.

Oregonfire

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks! Okay, another question: how do I boost the sound? It's too low for my tastes, and I have everything maxed out. I have a Sony Vaio, so every last thing requires a USB connector, total rip off. Speaker will be difficult to negotiate.

BTW, I have a job...really...

Lurknomore

Friday, July 12, 2002 - 02:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think this should work for you. I know there is another way to access this as well, but don't recall how. Open the media browser, click on tools then equalizer. You will see a drop down menu next to Settings. Mess around with those. I've actually gotten pretty good sound there, both for here and my music (regretfully different settings with no easy way to flip back and forth). Also you can play with room size etc. Good luck!