Re: [RDD] Paravel appliance: what is /altboot for?

2015-04-14 Thread Cowboy
On Monday 13 April 2015 04:35:55 pm Henry Law wrote: The Paravel appliance installs itself with a /boot partition, which is a common way to do things, and also an /altboot partition, which seems to contain the same files and looks like a backup copy, though it's permanently mounted.  When

Re: [RDD] rdairplay crash investigation

2015-04-14 Thread Rob Landry
It's hard to imagine a hardware error that will cause rdairplay to exit but not manifest itself in other ways. I'm used to hardware problems manifesting themselves at lower levels, e.g. screen freezes. Also, I've taken the hard drove out of a suspect machine, mounted it in an entirely

Re: [RDD] NPR news auto FTP limit to 3 min ONLY

2015-04-14 Thread Admin
On 14.04.2015 23:50, Robert Jeffares wrote: you can download the file using a shell script triggered by cron and run it through a program which finds the 2 seconds silence and clips it there. shorter file is output to your dropbox RD Catch loads the short version and you're where you want to

[RDD] NPR news auto FTP limit to 3 min ONLY

2015-04-14 Thread Admin
Hi Guys, We are downloading NPR news each day for rebroadcasting by ftp via RDCatch, the file is a 5 min news file with a pause at 3 mins if you wish to only take the 3 min part we can download the cart at 5 mins and manually edit it to 3 mins but really needs to be done automatically so far