Once just to experiment I was using a cheap usb sound card that I bought on
ebay for about 5 bucks shipping included. It worked great with just rdairplay
but when I started demanding more of it, I got the same symptoms, I was using
alsa, never tried it with jack.
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From: Wayne Merricks <[email protected]>
To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Music keep stopping, starting, stuttering
The thing that springs to mind instantly is are you using a network NFS
share for the audio? I've not used a Windows share for the audio but it
seemed like a bad idea from what I read so I recommend you don't go that
route if you are having problems.
If you are using NFS try upping your rsize and wsize values to 32768 (I
think it defaults to 8192). I had some very minor and rare stuttering
issues myself until I changed the previous settings.
Once thats eliminated check your network traffic to see if its becoming
congested. If possible consider VLAN'ing off the broadcast machines or
even a separate physical lan whatever works for you.
One further thing that might help if its a network problem is to convert
to mp2 at least then the audio data is physically smaller to shift around
at the expense of processor time.
Obviously check CPU usage etc just in case something weird is happening
too.
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:39:21 +0100, Terry LeTourneau
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Quick question...While RD is running strong before we go LIVE on 10/1/11,
> I'm noticing that when the music plays it will start strong, stop, start
> up
> again, and oftentimes stutters but doesn't lose time on the RDAirplay.
> Any
> thoughts why this keeps happening?
>
> -Terry
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Geoff Barkman
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Seumas
>> Have you looked in the rdlogmanager at the "Edit Grids" section.
>> There is a square for every hour of the week.
>> First I would make an hour of generic music clock and populate most of
>> the grids in there for your selected audio service.
>>
>> Next decide where your regular weekly slots go... eg a 30 minute
>> radio serial plays every Monday night at 8pm. Open your generic music
>> clock... use the "Save as" to save the radio serial (clock) Call it
>> "Bob's serial" or whatever. Now delete most of the music events out of
>> it. and add a 30 minute event called Bob's serial that loads the Bob's
>> serial cart from rdlibrary. Now go back into the grids for 20-21 on
>> the Monday line and replace the grid assignment to call up the hour
>> long, Bob's Serial Clock.
>>
>> For other weekly shows open up your original clock and use the "Save
>> as" again to save as a new clock... and then delete the events you
>> don't want and add new events for new shows.
>>
>> For shows that aren't weekly...ie monthly 2 weekly it might be
>> quickest to manually add those events in rdlogedit.
>>
>> In the case of the 2 hour show you mentioned... say it plays 12 noon
>> on a wednesday.
>> Make 1 clock....make it 1 hour long... schedule it for 12 noon
>> wednesday. For the second hour (1300) leave the grid pattern empty.
>> Resume your next grid 1400 hours (2pm) for whatever show comes up
>> afterwards.
>>
>> I've used other scheduler programs and the grid pattern with clocks
>> for the weeks events seems to be a fairly standard way of doing
>> things.
>>
>>
>> I hope that helps
>> Geoff Barkman
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Seumas Mackinnon <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi there,
>> >
>> > I'm just not "getting" the whole events and clocks thing. My situation
>> > is that all our shows are pre-recorded (well, let's assume for
>> > simplicity they are!). I have a 2 hour show, some 1 hour shows and
>> > some half-hour shows. The way we have things at the moment is just
>> > putting each show in a cart and creating a log that plays them out to
>> > schedule.
>> >
>> > Now, I guess what I *should* have is one Event for each show? And then
>> > what happens with Clocks? Do I have a Clock for each show? Or to cover
>> > each hour? What if I have something going from 1330 to 1430? Do I
>> > split things up? Please don't say "whatever you like" or "whatever
>> > works". I'd really like some suggestions on how *you* would do it.
>> >
>> > I'm hoping that if someone can give me some suggestions on the best
>> > way to do this, I'll suddenly "get it"! :-)
>> >
>> > Many thanks, Seumas
>> > --
>> > Seumas Mackinnon
>> > "It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are
>> fighting,
>> > but for freedom -- for that alone, which no honest man gives up but
>> with
>> > life itself." -- Declaration of Arbroath, 1320
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