Highest, fastest freefall attempt @ 12:00 UTC today

[mips]

Anyone experiencing streaming issues? Sometimes the connection is lost and I get just TV noise and an error message from YouTube. I hope this doesn't happen when he jumps.

Working fine here but I'm using the 240p resolution. 480p also works for me but I have limited data so I stick with 240p. Might bump it up when he jumps to see it in HD

[lovinglinux]

Thanks for the heads up. I had thought that this was over.. been busy at work the last few days. He is approaching 85,000 feet just now.

To the person above me. I haven't had any streaming issues so far.

Thanks. I have changed to 480p and it got better. It seems the 360p stream is too busy serving too many viewers. The 720p also works well, but it has too many buffering interruptions.

[lovinglinux]

Working fine here but I'm using the 240p resolution. 480p also works for me but I have limited data so I stick with 240p. Might bump it up when he jumps to see it in HD

I am testing the 720p again too see if it will remain stable for the jump, otherwise I will stay on 480p.

[lovinglinux]

Almost 3 million people watching live on YouTube. Cool.

Surpassed 4 million already. Wow.

[lovinglinux]

Anybody know if any of the international news channels are covering this (cnn, bbc, sky, rt etc)?

The narrator just mentioned there are 50 network stations, from all around the world, covering the event. I don't have traditional TV anymore, so I can't tell if they are broadcasting here.

[Cheesemill]

@lovinglinux

Streaming @1080p from YouTube here with no issues.

I've just had a look and it appears that it's not being shown on UK terrestrial TV, doesn't really matter as my PC is plugged into my TV so its HD goodness all the way.

[mips]

So far he broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight!

[lovinglinux]

Surpassed 4 million already. Wow.

5 million mark!!!!

[Cheesemill]

Did anyone else just notice that he stopped ascending and now he's shooting up again

[mips]

Did anyone else just notice that he stopped ascending and now he's shooting up again

Yeah, shooting up at a rapid rate but they are gonna vent some gas from the balloon to compensate.