> > > The Milkymist board adds Audio, MIDI and DMX capabilities. This will > > very useful for testing Kyle's work on USB Audio before the extracting > > audio from the HDMI stream is finished. It also lets you experiment with > > interfacing with control decks which have mechanical faders and tally > > lights. > Does the DMX capability provide a full universe of addressable space? > Personally I think the audio capture would be useful, but I am biased > there :) >
DMX just looks like serial data to the FPGA. Nobody has actually written MIDI / DMX interfacing code yet but there is no reason it couldn't do full universe of addressable space, pretend to be multiple separate different devices or anything else in between. > > Don't forget that you want to purchase Redmere cables to improve the > > compatibility of the board. However, I'm unsure the best place to get > > them at the moment is. > We currently have 3, one for each room and a spare as far as I am aware. > You should definitely get a few more of these. We have found that the cables eventually fail after being rough handled by too many presenters. > > On more exciting news, If all goes well, we should also have a SDI > > capture board for the Opsis by the end of the year! The TimVideos and > > Apertus project applied to the German Prototype fund to get sponsorship > > for developing a FOSS SDI core and this proposal has gotten to the last > > stage of approval! > This is great news! I would love to replace the BlackMagic cards with > opsis boards > There will also be the option of using the Opsis as a HDMI to SDI converter if you really want to use SDI as your long runs. Tim 'mithro' Ansell
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