Hi Nathan, We use RDCATCH on dedicated logging archiving machines here, and have run into a few rather upsetting problems.
We have seen our recordings end 2-8 seconds early consistently, and also of late have had a even more perplexing problem. Say we have four recording ending (4 hour recordings each) at 11:00AM. There are also 2 more recordings starting at 11:00AM. At the appointed time, the recording ends but RDCATCH has to write all of the ending data via NFS, and start the new recordings at the same time. This used to work perfectly but suddenly stopped working. We would have a drop out of 5 - 12 seconds THROUGHOUT the network (many studios running here - but usually atleast 5 studios broadcasting/recording). We looked at network traffic, switches, etc. and have not seemed to find the culprit (Note: the Rivendell system did not change in any way, but is also an older version - 1.5.2). Solution for now was staggering the recording so everything was not happening at once. However this has been an ongoing issue for us even withstanding the newest glitch. So, we may be looking at finding another way to capture our recordings other than the ways we do it now....Obviously a network wide dropout is not something we want... Hope this give you food for thought. If anybody else has seen this type of behavior please feel free to chime in. Best Of Luck, Todd Baker Radio Free Asia , Washington DC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Steele" <nathan.ste...@thecrossfm.com> To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" <rivendell-...@caspian.paravelsystems.com> Sent: Friday, November 9, 2012 10:18:42 AM Subject: Re: [RDD] OT: Rotter question As always, the obvious eludes me.... Does anyone use rdcatch in this way or has anyone tried it and why did you switch..... Nathaniel C. Steele Assistant Chief Engineer/Technical Director WTRM-FM / TheCrossFM On 11/9/2012 8:20 AM, Alan Peterson wrote: > No one's mentioned it yet, so I may as well break the silence... > > Would there be anything wrong or improper in using RD Catch on a dedicated > logging/archiving machine instead? It's already been built for you (on the > appliance disk), works right out'a the box, and is designed to handle > multiple inputs. > > Just sayin'.... > > -AP > _______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org > http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev > > > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
