jon
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Joined: 29 Aug 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Bexhill under lyme
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 Posted: Sun 12 09, 2004 12:00 pm Post subject: stuff from our last broadcast (july '04) |
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okay, i'll kick something vagually useful off here..... here's my summary of "technical issues arising" from our last bash).
playout....
1. the amazing "truncate all the shortcuts on your desktop" feature is my fault, related to the new "track lister" module for updating web pages, which if you dont configure it attempts to modify all the files in the current folder - the desktop in this case where the app is launched. Is now fixed anyway.
2. Two GP faults... Appeared to take out the dialog handlers responsible for the button wall, I wasn't paying too much attention here, p'haps jim can remember which bits didnt work when these cropped up? certainly it didn't take out the core package. The BWall logic _has_ undergone a rewrite to make them detached from the jingle players so there could well be something in this and it could be a bugger to track down because it's not going to show up say in hours of automation.
other.....
Win98: May even relate back to the GP faults, Playout is quite heavy on threads - monitoring a Win2k session shows 36 odd running and i'm none too convinced about the Win9x platforms ability to multithread very well (bits of win3.1 in there still). I'd get a much better feeling if we used XP in future, just to assertain if these are _real_ problems or OS related. Sorry i'm having a bash at the pc again...
shoutcast, oh yes the 20 minute drop out aside there are noticeable hiccups occuring throughout the broadcast which i didnt hear "live" and are also apparent in some of jim's earlier streams so it's clearly in the stream encode/server end of things. (this scared me for a while since very similar hiccups cropped up during the hrock RSL pointing at my end of things). I think there is enough anecdodal evidence to point at the 'ix laptop s/cast server on this:
- the major drop out/hiccups cropped up at 8pm (backup time so i'm told)
- last time we encoded on the studio PC it was also running an audio compressor but streaming to servers on my Linux PC and showed no such problem
So we could blame win98 again but i'm not convinced.
one final note, jim's mentioned real-audio to me as a streaming format in the past, i'd really like to add "title/artist" support through playout for it but the documentation tree is a nightmare and despite several bashes i cant find anything close on this subject. So if anyones got a spare 5 months, get back to me...
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