Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread sfijn
The Paravel install disk are on CentOS5. Very easy install, runs well. The only thing is that the RN RML-command does not work... Cheers, Stephan Ok, I'm sorry to say I think we ought to throw in the towel with CentOS and Rivendell. The reason is that nobody around here -- we're all

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Rob Landry
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012, Gavin Stephens wrote: I know Rivendell is sopose to be cross-linux platforms, but it never really appears that easy in the posts. I feel the sudden need to make sure everything is imaged again on a few spare drives. Compiling Rivendell on any distribution of Linux

Re: [RDD] RMS levels (some definitions)

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Cramer
Hi all, About levels, this is a part of the mastering process of a recording and there might be a reason why this is still done manually in the CD production process. Never the less as fas as I know there is only one product in the market that is able to calculate and display a volume level of

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Wayne Merricks
Pulse Audio is the only way I've managed to get some apps to play sound. Namely Flash via youtube (hit and miss, with mostly misses for reasons I don't understand. Also seems to be distribution specific) and I also used I think Ekiga VoIP soft phones to record into Audacity once when our main

Re: [RDD] Auto Generate Logs

2012-08-05 Thread Wayne Merricks
One thing I found during production testing, Ubuntu server doesn't put /usr/local/bin into the path variable so you get errors saying rdlogmanager not found. I amended the script to be /usr/local/bin/rdlogmanager and it works fine. -Original Message- From:

Re: [RDD] RMS levels (some definitions)

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Cramer
Hi Wayne, I shrink the Audacity window to a minimum, so it ain't no problem pressing record in due time and cut the beginning second w/o audio signal afterwords. Rotter works automatically according to its internal time schedule (every hour a new file) as far as I understand. In addition it

Re: [RDD] RMS levels (some definitions)

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Cramer
Right. I forgot: rotter suports higher bitrates but no high quality encoding... On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 16:15:32 +0200 Chris Cramer ch...@smartvia.de wrote: Hi Wayne, I shrink the Audacity window to a minimum, so it ain't no problem pressing record in due time and cut the beginning second w/o

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Robert Jeffares
On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 21:07 +1200, Gavin Stephens wrote: a new OS with even bigger learning curves to compile rather than install from an RPM on the old system. as a user who has compiled Rivendell, and other things, on various OS since 1999, some of which no longer exist, the appliance cd

Re: [RDD] RMS levels (some definitions)

2012-08-05 Thread James Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rotter supports FLAC, WAV, MP3, Vorbis. I've been using it in production for lossless (4-week) archives and lossy (6 month) archives for over a year and a half now. It's stable and works flawlessly. Cheers, James Harrison On 05 August 2012 15:27:38,

Re: [RDD] RMS levels (some definitions)

2012-08-05 Thread James Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rotter's mp3 encoder uses LAME, widely regarded as the absolute best MP3 encoder out there. At 320k (-f mp3 -b 320), it's perfectly usable. 'In the EBU area' is quite a broad stroke - at our community radio station, 192k MP3 was accepted only as a

Re: [RDD] RMS levels (some definitions)

2012-08-05 Thread Chris Cramer
Hi James, thank you very much for the info, is your tool available anywhere? I would like to try it out - if you don't mind. The EBU recommendation is a recommendation witch may / is expected to lead to a standard. I do have the EBUmeter installed on my system for testing. It is available from

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Wayne Merricks
Regarding firewalls, pfsense is amazing and easy to use. I use that with Open VPN and only expose icecast to the outside world. -Original Message- From: rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org on behalf of Robert Jeffares Sent: Sun 05/08/2012 15:52 To:

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Gavin Stephens
Is it easy enought (a few clicks) to import an old 1.7.2 database in to the appliance? I know Linux can be quite secure, but I'd always perfer a firewall. I use a Mikrotik router for that, few watts vs 50W PC pfsense, although pfsense runs well too. - Original Message - From: Robert

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Gerry Dalton
It is very easy, the hard part for me was understanding you had to create a new host on the appliance after you import the database because the old audio settings are tied to the database and the old original host Once I got past that I have been able to have the new system running as a demo

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Gavin Stephens
So apart from creating a new host on the OS, you can just RDAdmin - restore database and point it at the older 1.7.2 sql backup file? Yeah I've fortunately already run in to realising it's tied to a host/ip a few years back. I figured that out when I re-imported all my audio (at the time only

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Robert Jeffares
On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 11:46 +1200, Gavin Stephens wrote: Is it easy enought (a few clicks) to import an old 1.7.2 database in to the appliance? Yes rdadminBackup DB on 1.7.2 to somewhere Make new install Copy /var/snd/ to /var/snd/ rdadminRestore DB from somewhere You may have to

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Geoff Barkman
But copying a decent size /var/snd directory could take a few hours to copy ... especially if the files are still pcm wave from an old Rivendell setup Cheers Geoff On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Robert Jeffares jeffares.rob...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 11:46 +1200, Gavin Stephens

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Robert Jeffares
yep runs on clunky old laptop On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 20:59 -0400, Rob Landry wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Robert Jeffares wrote: There is a Debian/Ubuntu Appliance Will it run on 32-bit hardware? Rob ___ Rivendell-dev mailing list

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Gavin Stephens
Thanks Rob. Might start shopping for some used 64-bit hardware, maybe IBM's on Trade Me. - Original Message - From: Robert Jeffares jeffares.rob...@gmail.com To: User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Sent: Monday, August 06,

Re: [RDD] arrrrgh!!! % # -- CentOS and Rivendell

2012-08-05 Thread Gavin Stephens
Argh good point, I only have 80GB of wave's but you've made me just realise I will need to upgrade the Production PC to the same version of RD I guess. So x2 new PC's for the appliance. I will prob leave my old one's on the network and just change their hostname's etc so it won't take long to