On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 21:04 +0000, Daniel James wrote:
> Hi Ralf,
> 
> > I guess for cutting and automated playout
> > additional software is needed. Isn't it possible just to start a player
> > by a cron job?
> 
> Yes, but in real life you need to manage the broadcast schedule with a
> more user-friendly tool, such as the web interface in Campcaster.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Daniel

Hm?

Banshee needs playout scheduling, perhaps the coders could add a cron
job function more easily to Banshee, but to add video support to
Campcaster.


OT:

> > The hardware required for an ‘Ingex’ recorder capable of recording
> > four SDI inputs each with four audio channels and including 80
> > track-hours of storage currently costs €10 000.
> 
> That page is out of date - SDI capture cards (the most expensive part of
> the Ingex hardware) are now much more affordable.

The page also informs about 'The key to this work has been the
combination of increasing processing power available at consumer IT
prices, the rapidly falling price of disc storage, open source software
packages providing professional quality video and audio processing and
the integration of these into an automated production system.'

Btw. a PNY NVIDIA Quadro 6000 SDI I/O SDI card is around €10,000.

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