From: "Adrian Groberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Multiple encoders on the same server box
Manuel:
I�m having the same problem. A friend of mine has a radio station and
has a Celeron using 3 sound cards on the same machine. He uses them for
playing, encoding, and listening respectively, but the thing is that he uses
them for the station itself, not for live broadcasting on the internet. I
believe this is possible. He told me that for freeing up IRQs, you should
disable COM ports unused, LPT port, etc., so you can put more cards.
However I think that using RealAudio Encoder (old version) this is also
possible. Because in the status bar displayed under the encoding, there�s
the buffer usage, and I have currently one computer running it, and uses 1%
(sometimes reaches 5%) of buffer size (Celeron 366 64 Megs Win98). So, if
you put more cards, I believe that this number would not increase very much.
In the help file, it says that if this number increases steadly, this would
output an error message that the machine cannot process live encoding.
I believe that this is right, but it's worth the trying.
I'm making the test this week or the next. I'll tell you how it worked
out.
But in case you have further information, would you please let me know
(or post it to this list), so that I can assure me of this? Thanks.
[ Moderator's Note: It is not possible to run multiple instances of the
RealAudio Encoder under Windows. You can run multiple instances of the
RealAudio Encoder under different UNIX'es though. ]
Adrian Groberman
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From: RealForum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple encoders on the same server box
> From: Manuel Congosto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Multiple encoders on the same server box
>
> I'm trying to plan a solution for a radio staions group that want to
> broadcast fuor (4) radio stations using RealAudio. Three of the four
> radio stations are voice only, so they can
> have a single small bitrate, they can even be in mono.
>
> What i think is a good idea is to put the server and multiple encoders
> on the same machine, using several radio reciever audio cards. I know
> that's possible using realproducer plus. The total audience would be
> like 200 listeners. The server will be pretty fast conected to the net.
> But i have some things unclear, maybe somebody can help me.
>
> - What kind of machine will i need to do this? will i need a dual
> processor?.
> - Is it possible to use different channels of the same audio card for
> diffrent encoders? i.e. one encoder for the fm audio, one for the wave
> input and one for the aux input.
> - Does anybody know any sound card with radio recieving capabilities? or
> maybe somebody tried to do something similar.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> --
> Manuel Congosto
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