posts/watching_debates.mdwn

   1 [[!meta title="Watching the Presidential Debates"]]
   2
   3 Tonight I will be watching the presidential debates. Since I can't
   4 stand the commentators on any of the major news networks, I will once
   5 again be watching the debates on cspan. If you don't have cable (or
   6 your cable plan doesn't include CSPAN), you can watch the video feed
   7 online. If you're running Debian, you can also use rtmpdump and
   8 mplayer to play the stream on your computer fairly easily:
   9
  10       rtmpdump -v -r rtmpt://cp82346.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live?ovpfv=2.1.4 \
  11              --tcUrl rtmp://cp82346.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live?ovpfv=2.1.4 \
  12                  --app live?ovpfv=2.1.4 --flashVer LNX.11,2,202,238 \
  13                  --playpath CSPAN1@14845 \
  14                  --swfVfy http://www.c-span.org/cspanVideoHD.swf \
  15                  --pageUrl http://www.c-span.org/ | \
  16                  mplayer -xy 3 -;
  17
  18 Then you can find a
  19 [bingo](http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/10/yes-we-have-presidential-debate-bingo)
  20 [card](http://www.jest.com/article/200173/first-presidential-debate-bingo)
  21 [of](http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2012/10/presidential_debate_bingo.shtml)
  22 [your](http://www.firedupmissouri.com/node/15837)
  23 [own](http://www.firedupmissouri.com/sites/default/newfiles/Debate%20Bingo.pdf),
  24 [and](http://bit.ly/2012electionbingo)
  25 [play](http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/10/tonights-presidential-debate-drinking-game-137378.html)
  26 [debate](http://gintender.com/2012/09/presidential-debate-bingo-wisdom/)
  27 [bingo](http://pandodaily.com/2012/10/03/how-to-watch-the-presidential-debate-tonight-by-using-all-of-the-internets/)!
  28 [Or](http://www.debatedrinking.com/)
  29 [some](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/03/obama-vs-romney-which-presidential-debate-drinking-game-is-right-for-you/)
  30 [other](http://gawker.com/5948495/butt+chugging-the-election-your-2012-presidential-debate-drinking-games)
  31 [horrible](http://www.upi.com/blog/2012/10/03/Your-guide-to-presidential-debate-drinking-games/9511349285779/)
  32 [drinking](http://cdn-www.i-am-bored.com/media/pres-debate-drinking-game.jpg)
  33 [game](http://jezebel.com/5948693/the-ultimate-presidential-debate-drinking-game-for-ladies).
  34
  35 [[!tag politics tech]]