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I actually have a server up covering from Plymouth down to Erie and from W. Milan to Rouge on the NS and From (FN) now known as Rodney to Just short of Alexis interlocking. I am also getting all of the CN Shore-Line and Flatrock Sub as well.

Its on

atcsserv01.railstream.biz :4835

Mike

Everyone, The #1 reason it came down was due to no free camera. Yes I wanted to and told them it would be free / members and I had all the intentions to do so. But looking back on everything. A lot has changed this went from a Hobby to working on making it a non-profit to now a for profit entity. I ...

As from personal experience with other sites, a fee of $35 per year and it gets lots more users signing up then having a price of 100 per year. You could prolly double your user count, and also still make more in the long run. Just hope it works out. Is it a live Video site 24/7 with out comericals...

Zack, Its not that easy (I wish it was) our membership is strong now and at least 2 - 3 new members each day. I had gotten a letter from ustream telling me just before Jay shut us down that ads could get as often as every 8 - 10 min at times. Yes google ads does do well at 150 - 200 a month but I ha...

There are alot more cost then the 200 a month for the Fostoria Internet connection its just one of the many costs. I.E. Streaming Server software the Server at the internet colo location and TB usage per month. Right now we use about .5 TB a day or 15TB a month! :) Each Cam is running at 500Kbps Vid...

I would love to have a low monthly cost but at 10 a person we are just barly breaking even each month. If you would like to check things out and are sore about the past please contact me off list and I would be glad to work with people on a case by case bases. Sorry I did not explain that well enoug...

I will start by saying a lot has changed most or our mods are new the issue ones are gone. :P I will say Streaming Video and hardware is very costly and countless trips to site for outage and fixes were getting very costly and streaming it was not cheap either to Bring it back I had to BUY a cable i...

All!!!! Effective immediately, you can now stream to unlimited concurrent viewers. In addition, your Livestream Free channel is now listed at livestream.com and is available via search or by browsing the Channel Guide. Plus, your channel is now eligible for promotion in throughout the Livestream Net...

I am sorry about that I am working to get that lifted. Might be a few days before it's lifted.

I had to have it up to get that lifted.

Hello Everyone...

Hope your enjoying the feed. I hope to have the Mic fixed (There are two mic's for stereo audio Right Channel is bad)and make a few ajustments in two weeks. So please enjoy the feed and it will get better when I replace the bad Mic and make a few ajustments to the camera.

Mike

it is going to be on the side of the Rail Bar accross the tracks from the B&O Depot facing west. The Diamonds will be in the right side of the video window and the mic's will be located above it.

As it stands right now Install is set for March 26 / 27 over that weekend..

Here is some more details. I also have a video window on the site now and it can go full screen... Frame Rate = 25.0 FPS FLV Video Bitrate = 400 kbps FLV Audio Bitrate = 64 kbps FLV Width & Height = 480 x 360 Comericals every 14 min but there only about 30 sec long. Audio track will include backgrou...

Update:

Camera works great right now I am looking at a 384Kbps a sec stream in a 512 x 384 window at 30 fps with 128Kbps audio the scanner feed will be mixed in with the video and the out door audio. Virtual Railfanning here we come!

Camera came in today. It work in even low light I hope to start testing the feed next week and install latter this month.

Here is the download link for the updated files

http://www.greatlakeslive.com/downloads ... er2.10.zip

Fixes:

E. Durand Address updated to reflect change by CN
W. Flint Address updated to reflect change by CN

Mike

Updates... Well not where I want the group to be at wanted more lit up but we have just finished updates to Durands Site W. Shaftsburg is still giving us problems. But W. FLint is back on the air! I will be posting updated files as some addresses have changed... Ok so here is my plee!!! I need help ...

I am waiting on a few legal items to be cleared up and then willbe good to go!

I have files for the holly Sub. I will try to E-mail them to you next week.

Mike

How close are you to the Battle Creek yard?

I am very intested!!

Please PM me with your phone number so we can talk more.

Mike