[RDD] Rivendell appliance - Unable to start daemons

2013-03-04 Thread Dave B
Hi all, Testing the Rivendell appliance on my laptop. After rebooting the first thing I did was run rdadmin and got the dreaded Unable to start Rivendell system daemons error message. Ran caed -d in the console and got the following: [root@localhost ~]# caed -d HPI_DriverOpen error: No such

[RDD] Invalid Cart...but it's not....

2013-03-04 Thread Nathan Steele
Every monday (i'm told) we have programs that do not play (all of them). these programs are downloaded into RD by RDCATCH between 1 am and 2 am. this is done monday-friday, but only mondays seem to fail. I looked at todays log and all the programs are red saying invalid cart, but When I look

Re: [RDD] Invalid Cart...but it's not....

2013-03-04 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Maybe the log is not refreshed when the cart is updated with today's content... Is that cart playing on the same day that it is downloaded? I suspect that when your log is loaded at midnight, the cart is not yet available, so at that time it was invalid. On 4 March 2013 13:16, Nathan Steele

Re: [RDD] Invalid Cart...but it's not....

2013-03-04 Thread Nathan Steele
That's the case, so will the cart play or not? I just found out that they skip them when they come up red, because it messes up the music if there actually is no cut in the cart. I've told them not to do that and see what happens. I also went up there a little while ago and looked and the only

Re: [RDD] Invalid Cart...but it's not....

2013-03-04 Thread Sébastien Leblanc
Kind of a hack, but are you able to download the carts the day before, during the evening? Are you able to enable auto log refreshes? That would surely fix your problems. However, failing so, maybe you can craft a small Rivendell macro that can add the cart right before it will play. From the

Re: [RDD] Invalid Cart...but it's not.... Solved (I Think)

2013-03-04 Thread Nathan Steele
I have set a program to expire tonight and instructed the presenter to let the invalid cart play anyway to see what happens. They had been dumping them when they see invalid cart. I suspect that if it tries to play what it thhought was an invalid cart at midnight when it loaded, but it now has

[RDD] More reasons to use Rivendell

2013-03-04 Thread Geoff Barkman
I just read online and in the news Bill Gates is the second richest in the world $67 Billion dollars (I presume that is US dollars). Yet another reason not to use M$ based products for radio Automation. :) http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/list/ Many thanks Geoff Barkman

Re: [RDD] More reasons to use Rivendell

2013-03-04 Thread Ryan Williams
Maybe I missed something, why is Bill Gates' wealth a good reason to use Rivendell? Ryan On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Geoff Barkman countryra...@gmail.comwrote: I just read online and in the news Bill Gates is the second richest in the world $67 Billion dollars (I presume that is US

[RDD] Converting old PCM Library to MP2 library

2013-03-04 Thread Geoff Barkman
Does anyone know if anyone has come up with a script that will convert old PCM.wav files (From Rivendell 1.72) to an identically named mp2.wav (for Rivendell 2.2) file. Perhaps using ffmpeg or something. I have a script that uses rdimport to import all the files back into the system but I loose

Re: [RDD] Converting old PCM Library to MP2 library

2013-03-04 Thread Fernando Della Torre
Hello friend! I just wonder why would you convert this library to mp2 (lossy format) ? Using PCM you may use more space, but at the other hand PCM uses less CPU time and it's a linear audio file, no loss at all, pure audio fidelity. Personally nowadays I don't see a reason for using mp2/mp3 at