[RDD] Clarification on JACK, Pulse Audio, and ALSA

2011-10-12 Thread Terry LeTourneau
This is a follow-up question from yesterday (Thanks Wayne for all of your help!) When you get a chance could anyone please assist me in understanding JACK, Pulse Audio and ALSA? As of right now, we have audio coming through the board with JACK and Pulse Audio working together. The problem is I t

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell - commentaries

2011-10-12 Thread Sherrod Munday
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 17:44 -0700, Jeremy Morris wrote: > I've made enough go-rounds installing RD and other packages to know > that even on Linux there are things that JUST DON'T WORK. Agreed... and sometimes, what doesn't or just plain *won't* work is what's in front of the console, not what's i

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell

2011-10-12 Thread Rob Landry
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Steve Atkins wrote: Just the other day, I'm nearly upside down in the dentist chair for what seemed like forever, staring into that giant light with the really fun rubber dam/clamp like thing giving my jaw cramps, and the Dentist says, "Opps!".  My mind races to that Bill

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell

2011-10-12 Thread Steve Atkins
Now THAT's a great idea! And, as we've learned from reading on this list, if you can dream it up, Linux can do it. -Steve - Original Message - From: "Alan Peterson" To: "User discussion about the Rivendell Radio Automation System" Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:41:41 AM Sub

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell

2011-10-12 Thread Steve Atkins
First off, let me say I've thoroughly enjoyed this debate and found your comments enlightening. I have several friends outside of radio (it happens) who are paid nicely to fly around the country every week and install their highly specialized appliance version of Linux. But the other half of th

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell

2011-10-12 Thread Cowboy
On Wednesday 12 October 2011 09:03:58 am Rob Landry wrote: > Windows is the preferred platform more or less by default, much as English > is the international language of business. ( except, of course, in the USA where we have to "press one to continue in English" ) Wow ! I wish I'd thought

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell

2011-10-12 Thread Alan Peterson
>From Rob Landry: >>> I have a client running [name of Windows-based automation system deleted] ... their AM is a news-talk station with a bewildering array of programs and features from various networks, most of them satellite-delivered and many of the features pre-recorded. Re-inventing that i

Re: [RDD] Windows and Rivendell

2011-10-12 Thread Rob Landry
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, James Laurence wrote: If a broadcasting outfit is running perfectly happily and efficiently and trouble-free on a Windows platform, and is able to be maintained by capable staff who have only an elementary knowledge of Windows, then why change to Linux? Don't. If it work

Re: [RDD] Issues with Jack and PulseAudio

2011-10-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
No I haven't amended that yet other work commitments have pretty much put Riv on hold for now. If you've got the PDF the whole script on page 26 is replaced simply by adding: /usr/local/bin/caed /usr/local/bin/ripcd /usr/local/bin/cdcatchd To the pulse-jack-post-start.sh script. They both a

Re: [RDD] Issues with Jack and PulseAudio

2011-10-12 Thread Terry LeTourneau
Wayne, Thanks. I should of mentioned in my initial post that I used your guide as a template in setting up both Jack and Pulse Audio and was a HUGE help. Thanks again! In other words, everything looks like your pictures, etc. It's just that the red box shows up and I have no idea why. Let me

Re: [RDD] Issues with Jack and PulseAudio

2011-10-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
Just one more thing, the red box are usually xrun errors (except your error messages aren't matching up). Usually xruns are reported with the number of milliseconds that the audio was delayed for and depending on how long this delay was, you might be able to hear an audio glitch. The only

Re: [RDD] Issues with Jack and PulseAudio

2011-10-12 Thread Wayne Merricks
JACK, Pulse Audio and Rivendell causes a bit of a headache in order to get them all to play nice. I've only actually achieved this on an Ubuntu workstation and even then I noticed that on 10.04 Youtube videos were hit and miss (I think it was a flash problem). Theres several things you need

[RDD] Issues with Jack and PulseAudio

2011-10-12 Thread Terry LeTourneau
Good Morning! I noticed something this AM when we fired up RDAdmin and that was that the icon for Jack was inside a red box. We were trying to roll out RD on Oct. 1st but had constant issues with trying to figure out Jack/PulseAudio. We're sort of at a loss here as to why this red box keeps pop