Transmission Code: 19121 (#63)
Transcript
I regret to inform the listeners of Podcast 17 that this weeks recording was botched. I am still in the dark on what exactly happened, but allow me to explain everything I know thus far. For the past 40+ episodes we have been using a program called CallBurner in conjunction with Skype. CallBurner records both a “this side” and an “other side”. In our case, the “this side” is my voice (William) and the “other side” is everyone else in the call; in this case, Emanuel, Dave and Aaron. The “this side” of the recording came out fine; meaning my voice was crystal clear. The “other side” however had extreme electrical static. Allow me to play you a spamle so you know we aren’t simply making this up. This is a sample of the “this side”, meaning my own voice from the podcast:
*Audio sample plays*
This is now a sample of the “other side” of the recording:
*Audio sample plays*
When we put it together, this is what we get:
*Audio sample plays*
You might be asking yoruself “What about a backup recording?” Well somehow, that was botched as well. I record a seperate mp3 file (with lesser compression) for each show, and somehow the “other side” on that mp3 was also corrupted. Here is a sample from that file now:
*Audio sample plays*
So what happens now? Well to be honest, I’m suprised this hasn’t happened sooner. In 63 episodes we finally hit a snag – this week I promise I will work out what hapenned and we will also instill a third backup system whereby another PC outside of my own records a backup, in case we run into some local issues. I blame Emanuel – he was being a dick on the show and now on his first time back, this happens. I believe the Gods of the Internet do not want him ever to come back. I still feel horrible though because each week I stirve to bring news from mods that work extremely hard to release content nad information. So in short, I am going to do a qucik rundown of the news and everything that happened during the wee. I apologize tat it is just me and I aploogize that I can’t get everyone back to record a new episode. I would just like to point out that this is not a way to punish those who didn’t come to the live show. Those 30ish people are the only ones who heard the renouned “Un-recorded Podcast 17 Episode” – consider yourselves lucky.
From the Mouth of Valve
- Left 4 Dead 2 8v8 not happening, 8 player coop could still be a possibility.
- Left 4 Dead 2 Authoring Tools and Add-on Support released.
- Team Fortress 2 Update (Tue, 22 Dec)
- More on the Team Fortress 2 Bots
- STEAM HOLIDAY SALE ON NOW
- All I Want For Christmas (is to kick your ass) – Midnight Riders
Releases
- Kreedz Climbing Beta 4.2
- Land of Legends: Heroes of Loria
- Sven Co-op – Community Map Project
- Distraction Beta1
- Too Many Crates!
- Nestlings
- Flesh
- Combine Mountain Complex (HL2:Ep2)
Media Blitz
- Battle Grounds 2 Update: December 2009
- SHIFT – Exclusive Gameplay Video Private Screening
- Ragnarok Arena – Bring in the new year with Ragnarok Arena
- Nightmare House 2 – It’s getting closer.
- Multiverse Materials – Current Work.
- Orion – City of Cera
- Visage – Interview with PHL, exclusive screenshot and Christmas special!
- The Rising – Update 2 “Ammo Checking”
- The Rising – Update 3 Part 1: The Resistance Voice Command Menu
- Cube Story – First Crazy Media
- Outbreak: Condemned – Merry Christmas with a Hint of Evil
- Blacksector – The Sound of an Upcoming War
- ToxisResiduum – Merry Christmas From Toxis .INC
- Exodus – Christmas Update
- Lost Hope – Tactical Anti-Personnel Robot concepts
- GoldenEye: Source – December Report
- Orion – Beta 3.0 Information, Human Classes revealed, new weapons
- Ham and Jam – A bumper Christmas post
- Age of Chivalry – Siege Engineer and Animation Overhaul
- 1187 – December 24th Update
- Room Escape – Christmas Update
- Zeitgeist – christmas media update!
- Overlordess – Map progress update
- Wilson Chronicles – Christmas Update
- The Mortewood Plaza – Merry Xmas & New Year Everyone
- Cry of Fear – Merry Christmas
- Obsidian Conflict – Merry Christmas
- Exterminatus – Back in Business
- Earth’s Special Forces – Christmas Update
- Raindrop – Счастливого Рождества! (Merry Christmas!)
- NMRiH – Christmas Update
Articles
- ModDB 2009 MotY Awards
- Eurogamer: Kim Swift, Nurbacular Drop Interview
- Halflife2.net interview with Flesh
Discussion
- Aaron (Bluewolf72) asks: “Best, Coolest, Epicness moment in any half life game?”
- PlanetPhillip Poll Question 151 – Would you prefer new content or more maps?
- PlanetPhillip Poll Question 152 – Have you played the HL games in release order?
31 Comments
The original audio seems to have been compromised…
Luckily we were able to get a back up of all the important file that was hidden in the audio. Download and process it. Remember sometimes you have to look past the surface material and see what is behind it.
http://bit.ly/H8q1WA
I am sorry that this is all be were able to recover. The file seems to have been slightly tampered with.
Shouldnt it be in .bmp?
The best part is when you were playing the Ocarina, I could hear Emanual’s laughter; albeit, super distorted and garbled. Too bad, sounded like a great one :(
More information on Microbrush 2, the level editor mentioned in this Podcast: http://shrinker.beyond-veils.de/projects/Microbrush2/
Just out of curiousity William, have you been seeing a tall, almost slender man in a business suit around the place?
As soon as I heard it I though: Slendy…
Blue suit and pourplish blue tie?
At the start, you said the DLC for L4D2 that was announced is called “The Parish” which is wrong. You meant “The Passing.”
Just clearing that up.
You all didnt want to hear Emanuals whining anyway.
I love Emanuel’s whining :(
Post the Will-only version of the podcast. Should be interesting. You wont sound like a crazy person.
We forgive you, Will. Shit happens.
I’m sorry about the episode Will. I hope you get is sorted so it does not happen again cus I love your show. After this i will start going to the live shows.
A real shame, this episode had a mammoth media blitz. Lucky there was no interview though! One time out of 63 episodes, that’s a pretty good record.
As long as you know you’re only allowed ONE mistake William, after which we revolt. You know the rules.
I am a bit disappointed, not at you guys though. I was just expecting a really good show :(, it must feel weird for you to do this alone. I love you XD. Btw, make sure you get the NNK team onto the show.
http://www.youtube.com/narutonaitekikensei
or just go on their moddb.
Why post the youtube channel when they have a site >.>
Yup we will be having them on the show either the week of release or the week after. I’m talking to one of the members now.
Of all episodes, this episode had a HUGE media blitz section.
To bad about the recording was looking forward to it ^^
Was great of you to make a summery of what went on though :p
Sorry to hear you had problems.
At least I got to listen to your awesome ocarina playing before I had to leave.
I never actually liked flesh that much. The monster-vision was a nice touch but it just made the game feel like Frogger. I don’t even know what happens if a monster gets you. Then again I’m only in the basement.
I’m glad you fixed what you could. I doubt your co-hosts were very happy that all the recordings of them were corrupted :P
Happy new year!
at last something to complain about!!!!!!!!!!!
just joking shit happens even in a cup
but still great that you wanted to do this podcast most people would say a better luck next time
and many updates !!!!! I can play again !!!
everyone happy 2010 and give them hell in upcoming games jeej
It’s okay Will. Shit happens.
Eh don’t worry about it, I listen to a podcast called PCN-Gen and I’m pretty sure they record using the same programme (I know for sure they use skype) and they’re always having problems, although it has to be said probably often of their own doing.
Well like I said, hopefully we can work out this issue so it never happens again.
Oh man, shame this botched, I really wanted to hear it. =P
Thumbs up for the quick round-up tho.
Thanks
I am one of the cofounders of CallBurner. Sorry to hear that you had a problem. Perhaps you can drop us a support email ([email protected]) and we can look into why the issue occurred? It may have been an issue with the underlying Skype call itself. CallBurner produces a log file which can help us diagnose what went wrong during your recording.
Keep up the good work with the show (I am an old HalfLife fan myself).
BTW – have you thought of doing a video show for podcast 17? We have just launched a new product for Skype which allows you to record and edit video calls. It’s free also. It’s called VodBurner – http://www.vodburner.com.
Jeremy Hague
The CallBurner Team
Skype: jeremyhague
Wow. I wasn’t expecting a cofounder of callburner to be a fan of Podcast 17.. I am awestruck. I want everyone to know that callburner is an excellent program we have been using it for 40+ episodes now and has never given us any issues. In fact callburner is the reason why we have been getting such great audio recordings for those who “subscribe”. I’m sure this one issue can be worked out and I will be working with the call burner team to fix it. Thanks Jeremy for contacting us!
It wouldn’t be fun if you didn’t have issues :)