ESPN Motion anyone?

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: Krugger

Originally posted by: Imported
The hell.. I get no video.. just audio. 🙁

Make sure you're using Windows Media Player 9.0. If you try to use something earlier you only get sound.

I'm using 8, and it works fine for me.

I get those lines in motion video though...I hope they get that fixed.

 

[BigSmooth]

Originally posted by: slikmunks

Originally posted by: bigsmooth
I can watch the movies fullscreen even when viewed on the web page. I am using XP and WMP9. I can also slow down/speed it up, kinda funny to watch some of the clips in fast-forward. 😛

how?

and i like espn motion 😀

I just right-click on the video and a menu comes up, with a "zoom" option.

 

[telstar1]

Here are my thoughts on ESPN Motion. The video quality and audio quality are superior.
The problem I see is that for your average user, they'll end up downloading a TON of content that they may never watch. Companies have enough bandwidth problems to begin with ... now they're pushing content to people's PCs with the thought that they might watch it.

There are a couple ways that ESPN may handle this.

1) Their video-downloading agent may track how often user X goes to ESPN.com and downloads enough video to meet those needs. This wouldn't be perfect, but it'd be feasable.

2) Their video-downloading agent could work as a node on a peer-to-peer network. In essence, ESPN sends data to 10 users, and those 10 users propigate the video to others. This would actually be the BEST way to handle such a system in my opinion, but I haven't read anything about peer-to-peer with ESPN Motion, so I'm guessing that it's not setup like this.

Anybody else have more concrete evidence that they are or aren't just doing straigh buffering of the video?

telstar

 

[Imported]

Oh.. didn't know I needed WMP9.. blah.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: Imported
Oh.. didn't know I needed WMP9.. blah.

Does not work on WMP 6.4 or 7.2 either. Attemtps to download codecs that are not there.

Check your ESPNMotion.xml file to see if anything is different (besides the dowload items):
<refreshRate>1200</refreshRate>
<inactivityInterval>336</inactivityInterval>
<ignoreAssetPublishDate/>
<cookieName>assetTrack</cookieName>
<cookieDomain>go.com</cookieDomain>
<publishDate>2003-02-19T16:58:06Z</publishDate>
<trayIcon>http://espn.go.com/espnmotion.ico</trayIcon>

 

[BigSmooth]

My cache is now down to 40 MB, so I think the cap must be around 50-60 MB.

 

[blurredvision]

This ESPN Motion thing is great! The videos take up a total of 61 megs in the folder it downloads them to, but I am unaware of any changes as I've just checked this for the first time.

I agree with what someone said earlier, I wonder how long it will stay free? They say themselves that it's expensive to run, which I'm sure is an understatement. Not something I would pay for, though, and I think they realize many people wouldn't pay for this feature. I beleive in a couple of months they'll make it an ESPN Insider feature only.