What is ETTV? (here's your answer)
Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 6:24 pm
I've noticed a few people asking that question, so I thought I'd do a quick write-up so you guys get the answer fast, and we don't have to type out the answer over and over.
In a nutshell:
Ever sit back and watch a game of Rugby/soccer/whatever while downing a cold one? Enjoying the fact that you can just sit in the comfort of your home and watch some of the finest teams on the earth battle it out, supporting your local team versus the barbarian hordes from who-cares-they-suck-either-way?
Course you have! Well - ETTV basically allows you to do the same, only instead of watching England vs Brazil playing soccer ( or whatever ), you can watch 4K vs GMPO playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory!
ETTV allows you to connect up to a special server using your PC, and view a game in progress much like a spectator would. But it's more powerfull than any normal spectator function - ETTV allows you all the features of a shoutcaster - being able to see the names of players over their heads, seeing a dynamite timer over the dynamite etc. You can even watch spectators on the server, such as 'cameramen', people that ensure you get the best overview shots of battles, the best 1st person views during 1 on 1's, and those crucial views just before a panzer dishes out some ownage on an unsuspecting enemy group .
Because you're using ETTV rather than just spectating the game, the server can relay the broudcast of the game to other servers - meaning 100's or even 1000's of us can watch world-class teams battling without lagging them out by crowding their server.
You could also have a shoutcaster connected up to the game, giving a running commentary - so even people that don't play a lot of ET can get an idea on why that panzer killing 1 guy isn't anything to be amazed, and why that medic killing 3 guys with his pistol IS. Not to mention giving you all those important statistics - like where the players came from, how the clan did last season, what the k/d ratio's of each player are, and what is the average length of their index fingers. **
*Note: most of this is based on what WolfTV did to allow people to watch RTCW games. Chances are good ETTV will be very similar.
**Note: this is supposition on things that bani _could_ add to ETTV. Bani hasn't confirmed these - they're just mentioned here to give an idea of what could quite possibly be added. Shoutcasts of games already exist - but why not integrate a shoutcast in with the ETTV?
Hope that answers some questions
In a nutshell:
Ever sit back and watch a game of Rugby/soccer/whatever while downing a cold one? Enjoying the fact that you can just sit in the comfort of your home and watch some of the finest teams on the earth battle it out, supporting your local team versus the barbarian hordes from who-cares-they-suck-either-way?
Course you have! Well - ETTV basically allows you to do the same, only instead of watching England vs Brazil playing soccer ( or whatever ), you can watch 4K vs GMPO playing Wolfenstein Enemy Territory!
ETTV allows you to connect up to a special server using your PC, and view a game in progress much like a spectator would. But it's more powerfull than any normal spectator function - ETTV allows you all the features of a shoutcaster - being able to see the names of players over their heads, seeing a dynamite timer over the dynamite etc. You can even watch spectators on the server, such as 'cameramen', people that ensure you get the best overview shots of battles, the best 1st person views during 1 on 1's, and those crucial views just before a panzer dishes out some ownage on an unsuspecting enemy group .
Because you're using ETTV rather than just spectating the game, the server can relay the broudcast of the game to other servers - meaning 100's or even 1000's of us can watch world-class teams battling without lagging them out by crowding their server.
You could also have a shoutcaster connected up to the game, giving a running commentary - so even people that don't play a lot of ET can get an idea on why that panzer killing 1 guy isn't anything to be amazed, and why that medic killing 3 guys with his pistol IS. Not to mention giving you all those important statistics - like where the players came from, how the clan did last season, what the k/d ratio's of each player are, and what is the average length of their index fingers. **
*Note: most of this is based on what WolfTV did to allow people to watch RTCW games. Chances are good ETTV will be very similar.
**Note: this is supposition on things that bani _could_ add to ETTV. Bani hasn't confirmed these - they're just mentioned here to give an idea of what could quite possibly be added. Shoutcasts of games already exist - but why not integrate a shoutcast in with the ETTV?
Hope that answers some questions