Internet Streaming

Well, after a few months absence from the camera and the Scene of Online Streaming, I am back!!

I am back, I am back, I am back, yay !!! ( Read this part  singingly to the appropriate tune!! LOL and dont forget to move your hands to the tune!!! LOL ).

Ok But all jokes aside, I have begun test streaming again!! Im not back full powered and Im not even sure if I will continue it as of yet!! But let me tell you guys It feels great to be back and getting in touch with old friends again!! I owe this to a few that Im going to name here: @fireman17, @CM, @Jimmymac, and Bubba aka Steiny !!! I also want to thank @iellie  for making me feel welcome on Ustream and in her chat :)  Her Ustream page is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iellie

I have come back on 2 platforms now and I will continue to be on both  platforms Yahoo Live (http://live.yahoo.com/paykan) and USTREAM (http://www.ustream.com/paykan's-world) as long as my PC can handle streaming live video on 2 places simultaneously.

Let me tell U that since I left USTREAM a few months ago, a lot has changed!! A ton of new features have been added, Im not even going to bother talking about them cause first of all I dont have the time right now and Itll make this entry way too long  and second of all I dont know many of the features yet myself just cause I didnt have time to play around with them yet!!!

So far I have  experimented  with 3  different platforms for streaming live video. Let me give U a little run down of each in my own experience. (Keep in mind your experience may vary and this is mostly just my opinion ).

Ok lets start with the biggest and most well known one USTREAM.tv .  With a funding of 13.1 Million Dollars  (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/29/confirmed-live-video-on-youtube-this-year/) it is a fairly large pond  with many big fish such as Hollywood Actor Dane Cook  and G4Tech TV's Leo Laporte and former  TECH TV host  Chris Pirillo, to name only a few!!  USTREAM also has seen many big events from a  Hannah Montana Concert which  actually crashed the servers due to a huge number of viewers to the many Presidential Candidate speeches and a recent one on one with LL COOL J  that actually happened today (August 27th).

However for a newcomer it can be very hard to feel at home and one with the crowed  at Ustream.tv. This is because of 2 reasons.  First of all USTREAM has a  moderating  system in place that I do NOT agree with. Certain people who R called OPs (operators) run and moderate chat rooms. Yeah it gives USTREAM a cleaner environment but in many cases the owners of channels ( the person who streams the show) dont have a clue whats going on in the chat and who is being kicked or banned for what reason, in part because they totally trust the OPs and in some cases because they could just care less!! this unfortunately leaves a lot of room for  certain OPs to do as they want based on personal problems they may have with a certain user who hasnt even acted inappropriately at all to give the OPS reason for a kick or ban!! Ive seen a lot of that happen on USTREAM and I have even experienced some of it myself!!.

Second of all many of the featured streamers on USTREAM were there from the very beginning and have therefor formed a very tight network of friendship with each other making it almost impossible for a newcomer to insert himself in. As many of U may already know I had an unfortunate and very unpleasant situation on USTREAM which lead to me being forced to leave the platform a  few months ago.  Since then many things have changed including a  managerial shift which was caused by Tim Villanueva ( Chief Technology Officer of USTREAM) the person who forced me to leave the platform , resigning and stepping down.Many of the people who were involved in that situation have now seen the light and have changed their attitude  and I am good friends with them now. But every time I step in to a USTREAM show and chat I still feel a lot of resentment  towards me and a feeling of heaviness settles on  me. Plus lets face it Im a very small fish in a very big pond when it comes to USTREAM and it was the same  before I left the platform!. Im not very entertaining and definitely not even an average looking guy. Which brings me to my next point, being a  guy I do not have the  BOOBS factor  (No disrespect to my female friends and streamers out there, U know I love yall ), and this all leads to me getting an average of 0-2 viewers a day on USTREAM !!!In terms of video image quality with the setup I use which is  a Canon ZR200 Mini DV camcorder as my camera and with USTREAM's highest quality settings, Its still fairly average, sometimes even below average and has a fair amount of pixelation at times!.

When I was forced to leave USTREAM  ( My USTREAM broadcaster was disabled and account deleted ) I immediately looked into other  available platforms. Infact I pulled a trick on USTREAM when my Broadcaster was disabled before my  page was deleted,that Im sure they didnt  expect me to do. What I did was I started streaming  on 4 other platforms and embeded those streams on my USTREAM page!! This was the only way I could let my group of followers and friends    know what had happened. Included in the 4 platforms I tried were Justin.tv and Yahoo Live. After an emergency get together of me and my online friends  Justin.tv seemed to be  a        logical choice for my new platform!    

(This decision was based on the fact that JTV is more mainstream and well known than the other choices)

My streaming on Justin.tv was very short lived since  Justin.tv shut  my account down as soon as they could!!! Thats how close Justin.tv was with USTREAM at the time! The video quality I had on Justin.tv with theire best quality settings  at best sucked big time and I got a video delay of about a minute and half!! While on USTREAM          the video delay is usually about 30 seconds or so. After my account was shut on Justin.tv  I jumped   on a new born project called Yahoo Live!.

On February 17th,2008 my channel on Yahoo Live was created and shortly after I  went on air on Yahoo Live. Of the 3 platforms I have tried and tested Yahoo Live by far has the best video image quality with my equipment I listed above. Unlike USTREAM and Justin.tv Yahoo Live doesnt give U a choice of tweaking picture quality Frame rate or anything like that. Even with that  Ive had the best quality video image on Yahoo Live. When I joined Yahoo Live it was only 10 days old!! Now  you probably dont know this but its been   reported    that  Yahoo Live's development team is a 6 person  personnel!  Not something you would expect from a large company like Yahoo!.Infact here are two very interesting articles about Yahoo Live that you should definately read:

from TECHCRUNCH

from YLIVE BLOG

 

Yahoo Live has many technical shortcomings, one of which is  a very non secure chat system. The ban or kick commands of the chat are faulty at best and  users   can come back within a  few seconds sometimes even with the same user name!!!  This has made Yahoo Live home to many annoying groups such as 4Chan and the many others out there!! They frequent the chats harassing the streaming person and the viewers and keep demanding such things as " Shoe on Head!!! Keyboard on Head!!" The  streams and chats can easily be  hacked by even novices in hacking!!! While other video streaming services can be assumed semi safe for younger adults and people with good taste, the same does not stand for Yahoo Live as I have too often seen naked guys with their penis's hanging out and masturbating on cam!!! or my favorite ,naked chicks on cam :) Now I love those!!! :) 

However all that  aside Yahoo Live is one small tiny pond  and has more room of growth for tiny microscopic fish like myself! Infact the following is a screen capture of my Yahoo Live profile page with my stream stats:

 

Here is my Yahoo Live stream stats:

52912 Live Viewers

936 Broadcasts

41.5 days Time Live

 

Even with all its shortcomings  I have found a lot of good friends on Yahoo Live such as miss @tendersphinx !! Yahoo Live also has its share of big fish and its own grown celebrities!! The Democratic National Convention was live on Yahoo Live the other day as it was on USTREAM!! Sheena TV is definately worth mentioning as she has become an iJustine of Yahoo Live and the Former American Idol winner Jordin Sparks frequents Yahoo Live all this coupled with the many DJs and other artists that often make it to the front page of Yahoo Live lifecasting!!

The other day when I first came back on both platforms simultaneously  within a matter of minutes I got 15 viewers on Yahoo Live and 1 viewer on USTREAM and the second day I got 0 viewers on USTREAM all day while I had 10 viewers on Yahoo Live!

I guess what im trying to say is that these platforms each have their own positive and nagative points, but I will try my best to bring them closer together and unite  both the viewers and streamers of these platforms !

Before  I close this entry I wanted to mention that my friend JD Carr has lost  thousands of  dollars due to his 2 websites www.gotwebmojo.com and www.gotpartymojo.com being shut down  because NING.com has screwed up! JD my thoughts and prayers are with you. I hope you come back and even  stronger than before !! :)

 

wow thats one long ass entry!! I hope I didnt bore U :)

 

Please feel free to leave comments :)

TV is it really reality?

I want to thank one of my friends @IELLIE for giving me the idea behind this blog entry ,without even knowing it, when she twittered this yesterday :

"How the hell did New York get another show on VH1? When is the reality TV going to disappear??   iellie Mon, 18 Aug"

 

Its been almost 8 years since the birth of reality television phenomenon.Perhaps movies such as The Trueman Show and ED TV were hints of where the future of Television based entertainmen is headed. According to http://www.boxofficemojo.com   The Trueman Show and Ed TV are respectively  1st place and 5th place most grossed movies based on Reality TV  http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=realitytv.htm

But how much of it is truly reality? Ive seen with my own two eyes "Writers: ...." at the end credits of some Reality shows!!! Or "Director: ..."  .  So if these shows are being written and directed can we really call them Reality TV?

To me a true Reality TV is one without writers or directors.The closest thing to that on television I guess would be Big Brother.Nowadays with the improvement of computers and the Internet, many people's entertainment  is their PC rather than TV. Music, Videos, pictures and some people even watch TV on their PC!! So the old definition of  the word Television  being tied down to an actual TV set is really no more. With that in mind, here lies true Reality TV within such domains as Ustream.tv , Justin.tv, Yahoo Live (http://www.live.yahoo.com) and many more live video streaming services that are available out there. True Reality TV is watching Chris Pirillo (http://live.pirillo.com) sit at his desk for hours on end  and then get super excited about the latest and newest gadget or software release or get into a  cute funny quarrel with his lovely wife Ponzi!! Or watching cages and cages of parrots in what seems to be a big room or warehouse on Yahoo Live, or just watch people who go about their daily routine while interacting  with an existing chatroom 24/7. If U thought watching people sleep, or watching an empty office room is boring and pointless, clearly U have not watched any of the streams people do 24/7. An empty office room according to http://live.pirillo.com  can get as many as 700 viewers for hours on end with nobody at the other end to interact with them!!!

 

So I guess to answer @iellie s  question, In my opinion its going to be a looooooooooooooooooong while or perhaps never till the craze for reality TV dies down!!!

But thats just my opinion and Id love to have yours, so please leave your comments on this subject for me and others to read :)

This is all the construction work that was going on infront of our house today for about 3 hours or so:



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My first ever video blog:

A short video I made using Adobe After Effects CS3, Adobe Premiere Pro CS3 and Magix Music Maker 11 deluxe for composing and arranging the music track :)








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Information Technology Burn Out ?

What did people  do before  the  Personal Computer age? Or as  some of us might call it today the prehistoric days? Im sure if you tell a  7 year old  that you were  born before iPod ever existed the look on the  childs face will make U feel as old as  a dinosaur  !!!! :)

The last couple of years my life (or lack there of ! lol ) has increasingly  become  packed in this box  set on top of  my desk in my bedroom  called my  Computer!. I dont get out of the house much, most of my day is spent sitting infront of my  computer,doing various tasks, social networking, watching  or reading tutorials  for various video production softwares, blogging, twittering,reading on the latest released or  up and  coming  gadgets  and  softwares, chatting, watching  video streams  of other peoples lives!!, and up until a couple of months  ago streaming live  video and chat of my own !. So not only do I not have an actual social life  now this has affected my  Rheumatoid Arthritis as well !! Sitting infront of the computer for  hours   a  day in one position for me  is like drinking poison for  a  totally healthy person! Another thing I have noticed is   how out of touch

But  dont get me  wrong  once in a  while  when my parents manage to get me out of my room kicking  and  screaming  (LOL), I actually have a  great  time !!.

I know people that have  it even worst  than me !! Friends of mine who are OPs on ustream.tv  and wyldryde IRC (geek talk LOL ) Fireman 17 and CM!

Fireman17 is  basically a  24/7  OP on both those networks!! When I say 24/7 Im not kidding you and he is also a  volunteer fireman during the day ( one step ahead of me there cause atleast he has a  semi job out of the house!! ) This poor soul doesnt get any sleep  at  night  except  for maybe  20 or  30 minutes a night!! How  he  survives this is beyond my understanding!! To give U a better understanding of the scope of his online 24/7 activities  I should tell you that he has to police at least 30 or  so chatrooms on ustream.tv  and  at least 30 or  so chats on the wyldryde network!!

The same thing  but  at a smaller scale goes for CM.

If  you are just an occasional internet user then you are not at all familiar  with what Im about  to talk  about, but if U  are an  avid internet user like myself  and  my friends CM and Fireman17  then U  may even have experienced what im about  to talk about.Internet bullying  and harassment!!. Im not  going to go into  alot of detail about this  cause its  out of the range of the topic of this post. But I will say this much. A few months  ago  me and a   group of my online buddies  went  through a  big Internet bullying  and harassment case that got dragged for a few months  almost everyday  the same group of people  from ustream.tv  would harass me and my friends!!. Dont get me wrong Im not writing this to start up anything with ustream.tv or  those people (most of  whom Im friends  with now cause they manned up  and apologized ),  but Im just mentioning it as a  side effect of losing your life  to the attractive trap I call the Internet !!. The amount of stress that this can cause  in  someone's  life ( or lack there of ) that is  wholly internet dependant, is incredible  and can even cause physical and emotional sickness and illness and distress!. Now my friends Fireman17 and CM are going through  something  similar but I doubt as intense  as what I went through, by the same  group of people  who masterminded  the attacks on me  back then !! for more info on that go to :

http://cmarlow480.blogspot.com

 

Back when I used to stream live video on http://www. Ustream.tv, http://live.yahoo.com/paykan  and other streaming services, I had become this hypnotized zombie, sitting  at my desk staring at my monitor, waiting  for people to come in to my chatroom  so I could talk to them!!! I would not even get out of my room  for dinner or lunch!! Id bring them up  and eat infront of my camera  setup so I could  chat  with the peeps in my chat room!! For  a  while id even leave my camera on at nights when I went to bed  and my stream truely 24/7  so people  could watch me  sleep!! LOL, so I finally came to  and  saw it  for the horrific addiction that it was  since  about 2 months ago.

 

With the  rapid  growth  in popularity and number of social networking sites, Instant messaging programs, smart phones and devices I foresee a sudden crash and halt of this culture coming soon, either that or  an isolationist way of life  brought on by the abuse or miss use of devices or programs  that were once designed to bring us together!!!

 

Well thats  my  story and opinion, leave me comments and tell me  what  you think :)

 

Talk to y'all later.

Ok so I dont go out much, Im usually sitting infront of my computer everyday, but when I do go out occasionally, I have a great time. Saturday we went to a park picnic with our Iranian friends, yes the same ones we went out with a few weeks earlier to another park. These guys are huge fans of picnicking in the park and BBQing :) The Drive was close to 2 hours and 45 minutes from our house!!! It was a beautiful place and alot of fun. Unfortunately it was a bit of a bug and mosquito fest!! We were eaten alive by bugs and mosquitoes!! I have mosquito bites in places I never even knew existed!!! LOL

"The Nightmare"

Early this morning I woke up with one of the most disturbing nightmares I have had in years!! I am going to try and describe the nightmare to U in detail here

It was late at night like about midnight and the weather was very warm and humid so me and my grandma decided to get out of the house for a short walk to cool off. We were right infront of our house and my grand ma was a few steps in front of me when I noticed something strange in the dark and cloudy midnight sky over the city. It looked like 2 passenger planes ( or the blinking lights that U C ). One of them took my notice. It seemed like it was just hanging in the air ( kind of like how a helicopter does ). Then after a few seconds it started slowly spinning in one direction and then the other direction!!! I thought it was doing some sort of an acrobatics air show!! (Talk about being stupid in my own nightmare!!! LOL ). So I pointed it out to my grand ma and said: Look its doing some sort of cool strange acrobatics show!!

After a few seconds the plane stopped spinning and it seemed to move forward like a normal aircraft would , flying. that didnt last more than a few seconds!! All of a sudden the tip of the plane took a deep dive!! Right then I realized that all along the plane had been experiencing technical problems and now it was going to fall to the ground!!

I screamed from the top of my lungs to my grandma: Its going to fall!! Its going to fall !!!!

and then the plane picked up an incredible amount of speed and came almost straight down and then disappeared from sight, after a few seconds a cloud of smoke and fire rose up from the ground afar !!

Me and my grandma in shock and distress ran inside the house to tell my parents about what we just saw and figure out whats happened. there was nothing on TV about what had just happened. So I went upstairs to tell my mom. After I told her everything I took a look outside from the window to C whats going on. What I saw was horrific !! Fire had engulfed the whole city and was rapidly growing and spreading like the domino effect taking over buildings and houses and it was only two more rows of houses until it was going to reach ours!!! so me and my mom ran downstairs screaming Fire Fire !!! Get Out !!!

and right then I woke up!!

Surprisingly I didnt wake up screaming or anything like that but rather very calm but disturbed!!!

Well that was my nightmare for you.

C yall later.

Technical Prtoblems

Ok, so Its been a long while since I last updates my blog  with actual words!! Ive been busy with Adobe After Effects  CS3,as U can C in my previous 2 posts. But what Ive been trying to figure out  is this Aspect ratio issue Ive been having lately with Adobe After Effects CS3!! here is the link to my problem:

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b5814f?@812.d7HdiRNkVM5@

If U guys can help me with my problem I really appreciate it !! .

 

Any ways, sooo whats  up? LOL As if I can hear  you like this !!! LOL

 

I just missed one week of my favorite show Tuesday Night Tech on Ustream.tv and now I hear there was alot of Drama and stuff!! wow

They mustve really missed me! LOL

Believe it or not ever since I started using twitter, its made blogging harder for me, cause I usually say whatever comes to my  mind in my tweets!! And sometimes it feels like there is nothing left to blog about!!!

Is  you are interested in video production, if U are a  video producer, editor, director and  want to socialize  with others in this industry join my ning network: http://videowork.ning.com/

Anyways, thats  all  for now  folks!! :)

A short video I made using Adobe After Effects CS3

This is a video ad I made for www.gotwebmojo.com :

WALLE

Well, the other night I went to C the movie WALLE with my dad. It was a very interesting experience. With the lack of dialogue (Less than 1 percent) in this movie the creators had to rely heavily on building the characters through showing their emotions with very well done facial expressions and giving the characters very likeable and cute personalities. In my opinion this totally made up for the lack of dialogue.

 

Aside from that I think the movie had a few very interesting and somewhat subtle messages for the viewer. The main message of the movie was for us to take care of our planet and be more environmentally aware. However WALLE had an underlying message which I found very interesting.The movie held Big Corporation responsible for all bad that has come to humanity. Under the name BigNLarge which owns everything from soft drinks to gas stations and supermarket chains, Big Corporation was portrayed as a manipulative, brainwashing force behind everything that had happened to humanity. Good example of this is the classroom scene where the teacher is teaching the preschoolers:" A is For Axiom... B is for BigNLarge..."

 

Another yet subtle message of the movie was the effect of computers and the Internet on our daily lives.Everyone was so busy staring at the hologram monitors in front of them that they were totally out of touch with themselves and their surroundings and  machines had took control of their lives. But once the system was shut off it was like they all woke up from this deep coma they were in.

 

All in all the movie was very nice and worth seeing.

Thats all for now :)

I am HOT !!! LOL

One super scorching day today!! It was plus 32 C  all day!! And I was seriously melting!!. Of all the days I could've used Cold Drinks or Ice cream we were out of both!!!

And YES that Rice Ice cream is extremely tasty and way better than any Soy products!!

Can anyone help me with my After Effects problem?



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Late Update

Hi everybody. Its been a few days since I updated my blog. I have been lazy and busy at the same time. I also have been looking for a desktop publishing app for my blog so I dont have to come to blogger.com every time. I found a plugin for Firefox called ScribeFire that I am using right now for this post.





Anyways this past Sunday was probably the hottest Ive ever experienced since coming to Canada 12 years ago. To avoid the heat at home we went to a park picnic with another Iranian family. It was a beautiful and big park at that.





As you ca C from the picture below a river runs through the park that just makes it even more beautiful.













And here is a pic of me at the park before I discovered a huge spider is crawling up my Jeans!!!! (ewww) I wish U could C me in my Jeans, I looked so 80's!! LOL












I have decided to do Powerjug everyday for at least 45 minutes a day and the last couple of days I took my camera with me to show U guys how unfinshed our neighborhood is !!!





















So, no air conditioning, and not able to open windows, a nice cold glass of Aab Aalbaaloo (Sour Chery Juice) made in Iran is the only thing that keeps me cool everyday up in Hell Warm room!!!









Ill talk to U guys soon :)

Yesterday we had one of the hottest days of summer Ive ever experienced since coming to Canada 12 years ago!! It was 22C outside but in the house it felt like Hell!! Specially with no air conditioning yet since the house isnt even done!!! My room was so hot I had to drink 3 huge
glasses of berry juice mixed with Cold water and Ice!! :


and Im the kind of person that never drinks that much liquid during the day!! LOL


Today is another equally scorching day at 20C!! When u have a house that doesn't have an air conditioning and is located in an area so new that they are still building houses. when U open your windows, you are bound to get alot of bugs and sorts in the house!! Specially bees!! Now my room is located upstairs and my mom who is stting downstairs just screamed and when I asked whats going on she said "Bee!! A bee just flew in!!! . I hate bugs and bees and quiet frankly Im terrified of them!!. I just went to a frantic state when I realized that a bee has flown in to the house!! U shouldve seen me!!! LOL Screaming like a little girl even though the bee was no where near where I am. I didnt even C or hear the bee!! LOL. I think I seriously need therapy for my fear of insects and bees and snakes and even some human being (Joking) LOL!!

By the way Im having a glass of berry juice exactly like yesterdays right now !!! :)

Ok here is what i had for lunch Yesterday Its called Khoresh Karafs (Celery Stew):



talk to U guys later !! :)

Hay everybody. How U doin?
OK so here is whats been bothering me technologically lately.
A few weeks back after we moved to our new city, we changed our cell phones and got new LG285 model. If am not mistaken (And if I am please correct me and let me know) this phone is supposedd to come with a USB 2.0 cable for connecting it to the PC. But the cable is no where to be found!!! I looked at the package and t doesnt say anything about any USB2.0 being included!! I also checked the internet to C if I can buy this USB for my phone from anywhere with out any luck!!. here is a pic of my phone. The One On the Left is the one Im talking about:




I am posting a pic of my computer setup for U tech lovers:






And finally this is the pasta I had for Lunch today:



Ill talk to U all later :)

Ok I just took a few pictures of the outside of our house today and here they are:

This is a video Ive made from our move from Edmonton to Calgary!!!


Enjoy the video :)

ok. Hi again !! Its been a long whle since I last updated well cause I had lost my password and username!! LOl I just found them today!! Alot has happened since my last update!! I have moved to Calgary now. I am a member of twitter!! www.twitter.com/paykan. U can follow me there. I started Life casting .

As of now my lifecasting URL is www.live.yahoo.com/paykan

But I dont do it as often as I used too.

and also Im a member of www.gotwebmojo.com !!!! Join this website and make some money !!


Ill talk to u guys later

This is the music video I Directed and Edited. Enjoy