pouët.net

Hi scene fellows ;)

As some of you already know, a video stream TV devoted to demoscene is in in the works by guys from the Wipe french group. We’re very proud to announce that the development reaches a near achievement stage ! The stream is ready and open for maximum enjoyment. Winamp 5 is required in order to taste the NSV video stream, and the quality is quite good (indeed, a broadband connection is required too).

Here is the url : www.demoscene.tv

You will notice that the team needs some hands to provide ideas, suggestions, demos converted to videos, server relays… We are open-minded, so feel free to contact us for anything ! (and post feedbacks here). For you info, we already stream 300+ demos/intros from various platforms.

PS : and yes, we’re aware that other similar projects are running (Weasel/Yodel and Nectarine TV). This is just some unlucky coincidence… Our aim will not be into providing only demo playlists, but into real creative contents and demoparties video coverage.

Very nice, congrats!

A suggestion: You should put the hardware each demo runs on (like Amiga 500/1200, PC, C64, etc...) in the name of the .nsv files. That'd make the stream even more enjoyable...

-rOn

A live broadcast of the bp compos would be cool actually. :)
(or more live footage in general...)

Its more like commodoredemoscene.tv, eh?

yeah!

lets hope this one doesn't bite with weasel's idea =)

Heyho...

well, it's a really nice project already...and I wish all of you best luck for sure and also _hope_ that there will be chances to combine certain activities with the ones being prepared here at my location since quite some while already... ;-)

I surely appreciate such projects and hope that they will be able to survive as well then. (You know...bandwith is surely NOT yet really cheap... :-/ )

For my own 'project-stats' so far I'm (still) looking for motivated and enthusiastic people wanting to help with the whole aim here at all...
Of course it would be also _best_ if such people had the chance to work _locally_ here as well (for the starting core team at least!)
As that way things are much better to plan in general then.

There's lotsa things to do...so don't hesitate and feel free to contact me asap if you like the whole idea as well! :-)

I can just _gurantee_ that it will get pretty _very_ exciting here for sure! :-)
More news and info in (near) future then...

Bye,
Weasel

too bad about the winamp5/windows only thing :/

Tsutomu:
You can also use winamp v2.91+ ...
Works great as well...

watched it for around 2 hours yesterday...rocks!

fantastic idea!!!

Sounds great.
I've watched Yodel a stack, but 99% of it is wanky pc stuff.

How about fixing a real stream in some decent format thats a tad bit more Xplatform? Theres several mediaboxes out there with ethernet compability wich you could hook up to your tv to watch something a like during some chill evenings. Oh, and ofcourse.. Theres also other demosceners than windows sceners, tho not that many ;-)

why don't you code a player for it yourself?
the SDK is given. :)

what about laying all these efforts together? Is this good to have three projects running?

Dtv is cool, lots of videos about the old french scene :)
- please more demoparties videos, interviews, lives
- and is possible a time table to program when i will take a look tv (next play with time and duration of the show)
- informations about pouët sheet ID, platform, release date and name for the prods will be appreciated
- can we send you videos? where can we find a tutorial and the needed tools to convert our files into nsv format?
thanx ;)

I agree Zone on all points.
Plus, I don't really know, but it would be nice to have some sort of ID3 or TAG or just a sane naming convention to actually know what I'm watching :) (hint: "slach2[3of5].nsv" does NOT count as a proper naming convention :)

Wow!
I'll try to convert some amiga demos!
If that's ok offcourse!

I can also do some atari-conversions!

has anyone got demoscene.tv's playlist ?
got a list of 'incoming' demos on dtv, too ? (to know which ones are already planned to be encoded)

Well, over at the Nectarine forums there are some threads about this, but I'm not really sure on it cuz I'm not that involved with that end of Nectarine. But there is at least a list of what has been encoded, and some threads about how to do such and so on.

Neither mplayer nor xine on Linux can understand that .nsv stream (or the codec used?), whereas with appropriate codecs they can play pretty much everything else.

Well, some more checking shows that the VP3 video codec plays correctly. So it's the .nsv format...

Gargaj, well, most likely it will be ported somehow in a bad way that will take some years to work properly, i dont see why not use a standard that already exists prety much everywhere and works? I mean, even WMV is working perfectly on windows AND mac, and if you want linux/any other un*x system than osx then prolly you should use something even MORE well spread format.. I think you all know where iam heading ;-)

It's the same thing as Shoutcast... it will get widespread enough eventually.

Well, all the DTV staff fis actually working on it.
We are setting up the playlist system to organize the broadcasting and to provide all infos about what is playing on the TV.
We appreciate your comments, and all point of view is welcome.
We implement everything to bring what there is of better in webtv for the demoscene.

I have seen half of an hour today while Ircing too. Absolute laziness!!! Like TV =)

It's great because it also shows Amiga demos, GBA demos and who knows what else. But this time, you don't need to configure anything on your Amiga, to reboot, to connect your C64, etc... everything comes to you like a TV. It's really the laziness of the TV. You are just a receiver. But it's cool! I can sit down and watch demos for 2 hours without having to struggle with something that doesn't run! I even watched Amiga demos I could never made it possible to run in WinUAE zbs..