[Lancaster] radio broadcast archiving / streaming

[Ken Hough]

Andy,

I managed to fire up 'jack' and 'ardour' OK under SuSE v9.1. I don't 
understand them and so didn't progress. I guess my sound requirements 
are relatively modest, so the likes of 'krecord', 'broadcast2000' and 
'audacity' are OK. Haven't had any problems with these.

Tim Churchill was trying to use 'ardour' and he is involved with sound 
processing on a semi-professional level. Maybe he could offer advice.

Ref. your previous posting about using a digital camera:
I was in North Wales over the weekend and a friend of mine and I went 
bird watching to try out his telescope with a new digital camera (Nikon 
CoolPix 4500). We both took laptops to download the images. My first 
attempt using 'digicam' failed. This was because SuSE v9.1 had already 
automatically recognised and mounted the camera as a USB hard drive. I 
then copied files to my hard drive via 'cp'. Simple really! Then a bit 
of adjustment of levels and some cropping via 'gimp' and we have some 
eyecatching closeup shots of a kingfisher.

I was stuck with my 35mm SLR plus 500mm lens, but (I hope) got some fair 
shots of herons, little grebes, kingfishers and little egrets.

I'm trying hard (not to) justify buying a digital SLR body.

Ken Hough



Andy Baxter wrote:

>The last week or so, I've been working on setting up a machine for diversity 
>radio to archive their shows with. Also looking at how to do a net radio 
>broadcast using peer to peer streaming to reduce bandwidth. They are the 
>community radio station that is starting broadcasting early october - see 
>http://www.virtual-lancaster.net/diversity/radio.htm.
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>I've had a setup working on my machine at home, using ardour / jack as a 
>multitrack recorder / mixer, together with ices2 / icecast2 to send the 
>stream to peercast. I've been trying to get this running on the computer they 
>have there, but it's not stable - ardour is crashing when I try to export a 
>track. This may be because I decided to use SuSE, which I don't know so well, 
>as the base system.
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>I'm not feeling up to getting all this up and running by myself at the moment. 
>If anyone wants to have a go at setting up a machine to do this, could you 
>let me know?
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>andy.
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