Posted By gato13 on 08/17/2006 11:19 AM
Here's a video of BHACT in Birmingham....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3wcmo0li9w

Posted By differentlife on 08/15/2006 11:12 PM
I've redone the nashville audio from the mpg from youtube's mmmeverclear.  Two sets: mono, stereo.  For each set, 1) the full audio, 2) Interlude and OTR split and playable independently or in sequence without gaps.

phee, this set is upsampled to 44.1kHz so the streaming player should be ok with it.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=X7NYXC1W

diff

Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/17/2006 12:01 PM
Can everyone who comes here test the new audio button below the SOTR video on the Columbia page?

http://www.katsconcerts.com/KC/Columbia.htm

For me it crashes on IE but is fine for Netscape, Firefox and Opera. It is an "Activex" control. does anyone understand these and why they won't work in IE. (Actually it does work in IE if I try it out in a self contained window but crashes if I have it in a popup window like here. Weird)

Posted By naturalchaos on 08/18/2006 2:00 AM


It works fine for me in IE. Sounds like it's something with your machine.

Posted By Minnie on 08/18/2006 12:41 AM
INDIANAPOLIS, IN

Crystal from MjsBigBlog  Recap

This was an outdoor concert. The only outdoor concert so far (according to several of the idols.) Due to timing, the first half of the concert was in broad daylight. Bonus? I got to see all the guys goofing off backstage. The stage is open steel work, btw, and there really isn't a backstage, per se.

Anyway. Chris was dorking around on a scooter. Elliott was standing on a railing, taking pictures of the crowd. Crowd was HUGE. I think I got a couple of pictures of the crowd. You have to put the two pictures together to see the full audience. It was that large. And very LOUD.

Let me stop here to say something. I'm primarily a Kat fan. I can take or leave the other idols. Until tonight. Now I'm a fan of all of them. They seriously kicked some butt.

Lisa was incredible. Paris has got some moves. Bucky sounded great. Kellie was much better than I remember. She can also move. At one point Mom leans over and says, "Damn. Girl's got a hell of a swing on that back porch."

Intermission. Now Bucky's dorking around on the scooter again. Kellie jumps on the back, holds onto Bucky, and they go scooting around. They stop at one point, by the fence, and a crowd rushes over to meet them and get pics.

Show starts back up. Now people who know me know I snark on Chris. But I was unbelievably impressed. Chris is really something. He sang much better than I remember, and lit that stage on fire.

Elliott joins Chris. Most people who know me also know that I've never been impressed with Elliott. That changed tonight. He was incredible. Oh, and he was wearing a Peyton Manning jersey. HUGE points with this audience.

Honestly, I wasn't that impressed with Patience. It was all right, but not as good as I was expecting.

Now Kat.  Kat was spectacular. She was still holding her voice back a tad on BHatCT, but she rocked it. Girl can move, too. Loving that black dress. She was adorkable in her little speech. Kellie had mentioned earlier that she and Kat had sneaked off to pet the goats and other animals. Kat talked about how she'd never been to a fair like this before, and this was her favorite stop of the tour so far. BTW, I heard the country stuff. I get it all the time, so it didn't bug me.
SotR gave me chills. Un-freaking-believable.  It was a totally different version than I've ever heard her sing. She nailed it. My mother started crying. The hair on the back of my neck stood up, y'all.

Now for Taylor. An Indiana State Police car drove up to the right side of the audience with sirens and lights blazing. Taylor popped out. He was about three feet away from me. Taylor rocked the house. No other way to describe it. He owned that stage.

Final group number was fantastic. Kat can move. Sorry Kat fans. I was too busy watching to get decent pictures. All of the Idols got love from Indiana.
It was just incredible. Bottom line - I loved the show. It was fantastic. 

Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/18/2006 2:26 AM

Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/18/2006 10:34 AM
Ah - MAC again, darn those MACs!

The matter of png images has never come up before, I have fixed my code to allow them through. (I only allow certain files to be uploaded to the server or someone could upload an executable file and delete everything!) Try them again.

I will try on my MAC, MAC is probably the problem.

Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/18/2006 2:47 AM
I guess it is going to be a mess!

At the heart of the embed we have:

name="realPlayerControls"
type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"

So yes, it is looking for real player. I'm by no means any kind of expert on these things. I wonder if I can get sophisticated and detect  the default media player and configure it for that...or at least fail gracefully with a mess "requires realplayer" and a link to download it...

Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/18/2006 2:19 AM

Thanks for taking time to test. Seems it works for everyone but me! I'll just have to only visit the site with Firefox in future. Funny how after a few years, weird and inexplicable things start to happen to computers. I'm also finding that after a few hours my right mouse button ceases to have any effect...until I reboot.

Posted By differentlife on 08/19/2006 9:50 PM
Greensboro, very short clips of BHACT and OTR. poor video, poor audio. I guess this post is more for the obsessive compulsives like me who need every second of video they can get.  I doubt it's worth using for katsconcerts, but maybe the videographer has a bigger clip?

Combined Kat part is about 16 seconds.  And it's buried in a 7 1/2 minute FLV starting at ~ time = 391 seconds.

At youtube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hSdBKXRXPFc

Rip:
http://s12.quicksharing.com/v/93228...1.zip.html

thanks to the Kevin fan Dolfinz1991 @ youtube

Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/18/2006 2:47 AM
I guess it is going to be a mess!

At the heart of the embed we have:

name="realPlayerControls"
type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin"

So yes, it is looking for real player. I'm by no means any kind of expert on these things. I wonder if I can get sophisticated and detect  the default media player and configure it for that...or at least fail gracefully with a mess "requires realplayer" and a link to download it...

Posted By mattsie on 08/26/2006 12:57 AM
Pheenomenon,

Regarding the audio tab under the videos on Kat's concerts site:
The player works for me with IE but not with Firefox.
IE can recognize automatically what default audio player the computer has. I tried assigning Quicktime, Real Player and Windows Media player to work as the default player at different times and they all work with IE perfectly.

No need to configure the embed player even if it uses real player controls. It works with IE just fine, and most people use IE anyway, even if their default players are quicktime, real player or windows media.

However, I couldn't get Firefox to work with any player because my computer needed an activex plugin that is not available in the Firefox site, and I'm afraid to download it from elsewhere.

Therefore, in matters where firefox doesn't work for me, I switch to IE, otherwise, firefox is my choice of browser. It's rather faster than IE. It works with the videos perfectly, though. So, when I need to play just the audio part on the concerts website, I switch to IE.

What's happening with your IE crashing with the player is that which happens with my firefox when I use it to play the audio, because IE is fine with me. I just feel spywares and viruses are attracted to IE and it seems the cache is used up so much faster, whereas, I can leave firefox on all night long without any problem whatsoever. Funny!!! We have opposite experiences.

You're doing a hell of a job. Thanks for all the hard work you're putting into the concerts site. We enjoy all the media you provided! Very user-friendly.

More power to you,
Mattsie

Note: I use other browsers: Avant and Maxthon.
Clever.....

<script src="/examples/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/05/BatmoAudioPop.js" type="text/javascript">script>
<ul class="audio">
<li><a href="/examples/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/05/better-player-vocoder.mp3" target="_blank" onclick="javascript:BatmoAudioPop('Vocoder Example',this.href,'1'); return false">Vocoder examplea> (224K MP3)li>

ul>

well...i just saw this post and i have to reply because i was a bit hurt by it...since i was one of the only ones i believe taking video in tampa...i am quite sure that the "idiot" you are referring to is me...you should probably view some of the other "idiots" screaming in their videos as well--many of whom are members on this site.  wth...seriously, you should watch what you are saying about people--it's rude and uncalled for--we were having fun, and you are lucky we even shared the videos with you at all.  you're welcome, btw.


Posted By Pheenomenon on 08/07/2006 9:06 PM

Great new tampa vids except the idiot beside the camera screaming! I'll put it all together before going to bed this evening.