Hi Geoff, Thanks for the reply - sorry it's taken so long to get back to you...running an RSL and doing a full time job leaves very little free time!
I have checked all of the carts and they all have 'sensible' cut start and end times - i.e. at the start and end of the file. We haven't had any other instance where ads have been skipped, i.e. when presenters add the cart to the Main Log, it only occurs when the same cart is scheduled in a *saved* log, again played from the main log. And again there's no timed events in any of these logs, just a series of carts in order...e.g. music, ad break, jingle - the ad break gets skipped. Are there any error logs that are easily decipherable? As I say, fortunately, I haven't had to do any fault diagnosis with Rivendell so far! Also, any news on a RRAbuntu with Rivendell v2? :-) Cheers, Tom. On 21/08/2011 10:10, Geoff Barkman wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
