MESSAGE
| DATE | 2002-06-24 |
| FROM | Ruben I Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Multi-Media Tech support needed
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I'd prefer the equiptment to remain with the server which we purchased for the purpose of the broadcast.
> The guests and people in charge of the formatting (joe and ray have
> expressed interest/ideas ) would come to my apartment in the East Village
> where the actual audio will get encoded. My apartment is a bit more
> central so we could hopefully get more people excited and involved in this
> project.
You have a very small tenement apartment, marco, with limited space
It's also a little less central for Jay, Billy, Bret and myself.
Ideally it would stay here in Brooklyn
>
> FWIW I have greatly simplified the broadcast scripts.
> Starting the broadcast as I did last night now consists of being in the
> directory radio_prog (which is in my home directory right now )
> starting icecast in one terminal so you get the live logging:
> icecast -c icecast.conf
> and in another terminal running : ./start_broadcast
> when you are done : ./stop_broadcast and Ctl^C the icecast server.
>
If your not using the PD libs, then wrap it into a single script.
> You also need to turn on the mixer and the mics, and adjust the levels on
> the mic input. This is something we will never get right until we have an
> audio card which supports a normal line input, as the signal from the
> mixer will always saturate the input of the cheapo piece of crap on board
> mini-jack soundcard every time Ruben coughs or Jay wants to make a point
> ... unless you turn the mics down so low that no one hears anything. An
> analog mixer has built in compression, but you have to be driving the
> amplifiers with normal signal levels, which I cannot do because normal
> signal levels are frying the consumer soundcard.
> These are the technical problems right now.
I'll talk to Bret about it.
>
> As soon as this is fixed it will be easy to show others how to start
> everything up and shut it down
>
One CLICK would be good with a gui.
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