Re: [RDD] RIvendell Progress Report 04\29\14

2014-04-30 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Apr 29, 2014, at 15:32 55, Jim Stewart  wrote:

> As I don't actually use the Appliance, I don't know what exactly is installed 
> and preconfigured, but look for a program called "qjackctl".  If it isn't in 
> a menu somewhere, try typing it in either a search box or a command line and 
> see what happens.  It is a very nice graphical interface to the Jack Audio 
> system.

‘yum install qjackctl’ should fetch it.  Remember to run it from a root prompt. 
 :)

Cheers!


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[RDD] RIvendell Progress Report 04\29\14

2014-04-29 Thread Jim Stewart
>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 12:46:14 + (UTC)
>From: Rual Thompson 
>To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org
>Subject: [RDD] RIvendell Progress Report 04\29\14)


>I was able to get the audio working after a little fudging around, however i
>still have not located the JACK audio that is supposed to come preinstalled,


As I don't actually use the Appliance, I don't know what exactly is installed 
and preconfigured, but look for a program called "qjackctl".  If it isn't in a 
menu somewhere, try typing it in either a search box or a command line and see 
what happens.  It is a very nice graphical interface to the Jack Audio system.


>Tomorrow i will make a "test library" of 30 songs and some imaging files and
>throw it in riv, then after i am happy with the results ill TRY to import it
>into powergold, lots of info on how to import FROM powergold to RIV but NONE
>on importing (merging) INTO PG

>I also am still trying to find rdimport in the applications menu, though if
>memory serves i think that was used in terminal, not sure if that changed,


First lets make sure you have an understanding of what rdimport does and 
doesn't do:  It is NOT the program that imports the logs from PowerGold, 
rdlogmanager does this, but it is configured from the "Manage Services" section 
of  "rdadmin" (you have to have a "service" added to configure first).

There is a template in rdadmin>services for Powergold, but just in case it 
doesn't work right with your version of the program, it is very easy to count 
up the columns of the exported PG log and enter the data yourself.


"rdimport" is the backend program that actually "imports" your audio into the 
cart library.  It is normally run in the background when you do certain actions 
in "rdlibrary" but is often very useful to run stand-alone (and yes it is a 
command line program) to do things such as bulk importing of a bunch of audio 
files.

at a command prompt you can enter "rdimport --help" to get usage instructions.  
Consider using good combinations of the "cart chunk", "metadata-pattern" 
matching, "segue-level", and "segue-length" to really save a lot of time.  When 
we started our station on Rivendell, I bulk imported 1200 songs in less than an 
hour and had them all titled, normalized, and had reasonable seque points set 
on them.


>After this is done we will begin to implement our custom remote voicetrack
>script through windows that was done back in 2006,


This one would be interesting.  I would think since Rivendell uses some sort of 
http protocol to communicate between various parts of the software suite, I 
would think one could write a nice web based application that is simply served 
from the Rivendell system itself.  As I don't know quite how all this works, 
I've been afraid to mess with this much.

The other interesting development is the usage of the opus audio codec in Jack 
audio ("netjack" specifically) which promises to deliver low latency audio to 
the remote end which would be a perfect solution for remote voice tracking.  I 
am unsure if the Windows version of Jack has seen  the Opus update to Jack yet 
or if it even works.  If anyone has an information on this I would like to know 
as we are delivering our audio stream to an FM transmitter site over the 
Internet, currently using Darkice+Icecast>Windows-mplayer (using Ogg-Vorbis) 
but would love to move it over to jack audio's netjack and opus someday to 
minimize delay.


Of course I have VNC remote access working very well on our Rivendell system, 
not that in Linux you can have several sessions of this on the same computer so 
you can have one specific to voice tracking.  I've also done remote X tunneled 
through ssh, (and yes running an x-server called "Xming" on windows) which 
works, but would probably be too sluggish over the Internet for voice tracking 
purposes.


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Re: [RDD] RIvendell Progress Report 04\29\14)

2014-04-29 Thread Robert Orr
Glad you are getting it working. Yes rdimport is a command line program
that works great for getting a whole directory imported automatically.
Rdlibrary is the gui where you can import one song at time and have a lot
more control.
Have a great day,
Robert


On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:46 AM, Rual Thompson <
myspectacularjour...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Well everyone we are one step closer now, we finally got the appliance dvd
> to install on the vm server, i must say riv has changed, i like the
> additional pop out for the sound panel, and the cart machine (knockoff) of
> BSI wavecart is pretty neat as well
>
> I was able to get the audio working after a little fudging around, however
> i
> still have not located the JACK audio that is supposed to come
> preinstalled,
>
> I got one cart working by using rdcatch (thats a nifty tool for pulling in
> weekly shows we will use)
>
> Have not even tried voicetracking yet,
>
> Tomorrow i will make a "test library" of 30 songs and some imaging files
> and
> throw it in riv, then after i am happy with the results ill TRY to import
> it
> into powergold, lots of info on how to import FROM powergold to RIV but
> NONE
> on importing (merging) INTO PG
>
> I also am still trying to find rdimport in the applications menu, though if
> memory serves i think that was used in terminal, not sure if that changed,
>
> Once we get a test library imported and tested, then exported from riv to
> pg, and then back again as a solid log we will record all that data and
> start the build of the actual playback systems
>
> After this is done we will begin to implement our custom remote voicetrack
> script through windows that was done back in 2006,
>
> still lots to do!
>
> (Oh i cant forget i have to change my email address as someone pointed out
> last night, )
>
>
>
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[RDD] RIvendell Progress Report 04\29\14)

2014-04-29 Thread Rual Thompson
Well everyone we are one step closer now, we finally got the appliance dvd 
to install on the vm server, i must say riv has changed, i like the 
additional pop out for the sound panel, and the cart machine (knockoff) of 
BSI wavecart is pretty neat as well

I was able to get the audio working after a little fudging around, however i 
still have not located the JACK audio that is supposed to come preinstalled,

I got one cart working by using rdcatch (thats a nifty tool for pulling in 
weekly shows we will use)

Have not even tried voicetracking yet,

Tomorrow i will make a "test library" of 30 songs and some imaging files and 
throw it in riv, then after i am happy with the results ill TRY to import it 
into powergold, lots of info on how to import FROM powergold to RIV but NONE 
on importing (merging) INTO PG

I also am still trying to find rdimport in the applications menu, though if 
memory serves i think that was used in terminal, not sure if that changed,

Once we get a test library imported and tested, then exported from riv to 
pg, and then back again as a solid log we will record all that data and 
start the build of the actual playback systems

After this is done we will begin to implement our custom remote voicetrack 
script through windows that was done back in 2006, 

still lots to do!

(Oh i cant forget i have to change my email address as someone pointed out 
last night, )



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