On 25 November 2012 13:07, Wayne Merricks <[email protected]>wrote:
> Assuming you were using a switcher or something to that effect that > Rivendell supports theres nothing stopping you doing what you want to do > (Switching studios etc). > > Sustaining play out I assume you mean silence detection? There is not any > silence detection built into Riv but you could use Silent Jack or > Liquidsoap to handle that (I prefer liquidsoap as silent jack confused me). > The radio guys still seem nervous about using PCs for silence detection > though. They prefer dedicated hardware and it does make sense if you can > afford it (completely isolated from other points of failure etc). > > As for remote contributions, I assume you mean hourly slots > uploaded/mailed in for use on air? You could setup a Riv drop box on an > FTP server which uploaded to a specific cart, its not something I've done > so there may be some gotchas along the way. Off the top of my head there > may be a need to manually set the air dates/times so you don't get > yesterdays upload playing out today. > > Hi Wayne, Cowboy and everyone, Sorry, I wasn't very clear. By sustaining playout I just mean jukebox, back-to-back music for filling overnights, etc. For silence detection I'm already using both silence jack and liquidsoap to play an "emergency tape" - these live at the transmitter and webstream sites, handling any issues with the STLs. Works great. I agree a separate hardware solution would be great but the budget here is virtually nil. Sticky tape, software and creaky hardware rules. For remote contributions (live or pre-rec) we already have an upload server that handles all the formatting and sources, so I don't think incorporating that with Rivendell will be an issue. My plan is to use the third playout system as the switcher. So studio one and two feed the third system, the third system then puts the appropriate source live (I'm happy with using scripts and jack for this). My interest is how other people handle multiple studios and the best way to do it with Rivendell. For such a proposed setup, would I have a different log for each playout - or can/should I have a single log with entries that only apply to each playout server? For live programmes we still need to ensure traffic is played - so that would need to be in the studio(s) log. Many thanks, Steve.
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