Welcome to Omnibits for Wednesday, 4 September (Day 4)

0615

Ugh. That is one ugly forecast next three days. We might squeeze in something this morning if we're lucky. 

New paradigm starting this year: the interactive JukeBoxes are being retired. Deprecated. 86ed. Adiosed. 

What we're going to shoot for instead is this thing called the Internet. The process of creating the videos that get uploaded to the omniskore.com results pages is now automated, so we expect to see videos uploaded and score-linked within five minutes of a score being saved. So, look for live judging feeds on the big screens outside, and for Memorex, whup out your smartphone and dial in here.

0815

Round 1 4-Way Sequential is trickling in ... as are clouds ... lots of clouds ... lots and lots of clouds ...

1030

It's a cloud party out there. Needless to say we've been on hold since 3 jumps of 4-Way Seq. Who brought playing cards?

12n00n

Hey! A load of CF 4-Way Seq! At least one event will have a meet! 

Every competition throws me a curve ball. This one featured my video generater -- which is just a special JukeBox mode -- failing to produce videos with any of the graphics overlays. On my original development laptop, where everything has always worked! Now that was a real head scratcher!!! Turns out the ffdshow video filter configuration needed to be set for all users. I hadn't run the OSHD installer for "OSHD User" on that laptop, so ffdshow wasn't configurated for that account. Note made.