From: "Bill Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Silence sensor for digital broadcasters?
Yes, that would be nice. Let me borrow an idea from my years in the
(analog) AM & FM broadcasting world. At all stations I worked at (many were
unattended automated ones) we has a device called a "silence sensor". Simply
put, this device "listened" to the off air monitor (an expensive radio) and
had a time delay setting from 2 seconds up to one minute. If the on the air
audio stopped for any reason this device would scream and could be tied to
bells, pagers, etc.
How about a digital version? Use a Real Player Plus as a client and find (or
write) a little program to monitor the output and scream if it goes away for
more than "x" seconds.
The advantage of this, like the analog ones of the past, is it catches a
failure in any part of the transmission chain, be it the encoder, server or
splitter server as well as the network connectivity.
If anyone knows of this kind of "silence detector" program let me know. I've
been away from writing software too long to try it myself.
Thanks
Bill Parker
President
BroadcastAsia.com
Hong Kong
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Subject: Testing for running server and encoder
From: "Carlos Eduardo Granier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Testing for running server and encoder
Does anyone have a script or solution that would check if the Server has
stopped running and restart it? We broadcast live 24 hours and the server
has a tendency to crash at the oddest hours.
Thanks for any help,
Carlos E. Granier
www.rctv.net
