On Fri, 30 Sep 2011, Tim Camp wrote:
> Through the use of the wonderful RML (rivendell macro language) you can > do anything you can basically think of because this is not limited to > just the routines that Rivendell can do, but any thing you can do from > the command line in linux, which makes this as you will come to learn, > the most powerful automation software you ever used. A client came to me the other day asking what should have been impossible a few years ago: during Yankees games and other events they are not allowed to webcast, can you come up with something that can fill the time with an alternate program stream that will start seamlessly at the beginnning of the event being blacked out and can be programmed flexibly? And can you do it without spending any money? Of course I can... with an old cast-off PC from the sales departent and a copy of Rivendell. The challenge was getting it to load and start a log on signal from the station's automation system, but they already had it rigged to fire a relay to cut off the audio feed to the streaming encoder, so it was fairly simple to wire a spare relay closure to the parallel port on the PC, which can be read with parashell, and then all I had to do was write a short script to execute an rmlsend when it sees the closure. And it works, for exactly zero dollars aside from my time, which they were paying for anyway. Rob _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
