On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 5:37 PM, Rob Landry <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of our Rivendell stations takes CBS News at the top of each our, but not > before waiting for the song currently playing to finish. Rivendell can play > that file while it is still recording; can any Windows-based automation > system do that? That is not the real party trick, Windows can do that easily. The real trick is this, start a cut playing on a log machine or panel button, then WHILE the cut is playing let rdcatch/import start recording a new version of the SAME cut, now start another instance of the cut playing... The first one you started will play to completion with the audio as it existed at the time you started it playing, but the playback you started second (that is after rdactch started replacing the cut) will play the new audio while it is being recorded. Only once the playback of the first cut completes will the disk space it occupied be freed and at **ANY** point in time hitting play will get either the old version in its entirety or the new version in its entirety, there is **NO** point in time where either the cut does not exist as audio or exists in an incoherent state. Can you make this happen in windows, Well, yes, but it will be a total pain in the arse to get really right compared to doing it on a Unix like file system where it is pretty much a case of 'you have to work to break this'. Note that you CAN set up NFS in ways that break this, and I will not assert that mounting a NTFS or FAT32 drive as /var/snd over NFS is likely to be happymaking in this regard, but providing you use a normal sort of linux file system it will just work. Regards, Dan. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
