Hi Tom It's good to hear that your loving Rivendell. Is it possible that the time the cart is skipped over there is a soft time event waiting to be played... so it just skips it...
Perhaps 1 of your 30 cut adds has something funny about the cut makers... perhaps the start and stop makers are sitting within half a second of each other inside their cut... and when say cut 20 or whatever number it is plays for half a second or so and then goes to the next event. Many Thanks Geoff Barkman On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Tom Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone > > We're currently using Rivendell for pretty much all of the playout on > our 28-day RSL here in the UK (except the odd presenter that still > prefers CDs, of course!). This is the third RSL that we've used > Rivendell now, and it's been absolutely fantastic, hasn't missed a beat. > > However just recently, it has started, very occasionally and randomly, > skipping one cart completely. > > Amongst all the music and other carts, we have one cart that contains > all of our ad breaks - there's about 30 cuts within that cart and one > gets played randomly every time the cart is chosen, so presenters don't > need to worry about scheduling the breaks themselves, they always know > where to get the ad break from. We have done all of the weighting > 'within the cuts' - i.e. multiple versions of the same break on > different cuts, we have not used the Rivendell > dayparting/weighting/day/date settings on individual cuts (yet). > > In a log, we'll have a music cart, followed by this ad break cart, > followed by a jingle, followed by another song (or whatever). Very > occasionally we find that the ad break cart is missed altogether. When > it plays through the list, there are no gaps or clunks whatsoever- it's > just as if the ad break cart has been removed from the list. However > when it's there waiting to be played, it shows as available - no 'No > Audio Available' messages or red boxes to indicate the dayparting will > disallow the cart...it just disappears. > > Where might be the best place to start investigating? Is there a logfile > of every cart played? An error log? Apologies for the ignorance, but I'm > pleased to say I've not had to do any Rivendell fault diagnosis so far! > > Currently Rivendell 1.7.2 on Ubuntu 10.04 (RRABuntu 1.13) > > Thanks in anticipation, > > Tom Dawson > Fantasy Radio > Devizes, Wiltshire, UK > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
