[PLUG-AV] Result of 1st AV Workshop at Artifactory

[James Bromberger]

Hi all,
For those unable to make it tonight here's roughly where we got.

Thanks to Tim B, we have two working, old PCs, both with firewire cards.
One is running Debian stable (updated from an old install) and the other
was, at last view, having some trouble with the update from an old
install. The Firewire card I purchased from Amazon appeared to be
detected with no problem, and DVsource is installed. When DVsource fires
up, it wants to connect to DVswitch, which we should have on a more
powerful machine.

Mark Tearle donated a bunch of kit, including the second PCI firewire
card; we have one spare PCI express firewire card if such a beasty
machine appears.

A third PC, which may fit the bill of being more powerful,  appears to
be dead - Tim B is suggesting a replacement mobo.

We have DV firewire cameras available to borrow with people's presence
from Nick, Mark, and myself.

The equipment is now stored in Nick's cabinet at Artifactory. We're
tentatively meeting this Saturday, or similar time next week. I have yet
to get the WAF (/Wife Approval Factor/) for this for me, but that
doesn't stop everyone else from playing.

Next steps that I can see (chime in here):
* DVSwitch host to be up, running, and ready to accept sources and
compress/encode output to icecast, and run the mumble server ("murmur").
* We need a third DVSource host; old PC with firewire and ethernet (2
cameras, one Twinpact)
* USB camera on a stick: basic camera boom - with dvsource-v4l2. We
could potentially add the audio from this as well into the mix (possibly
faded out most of the time??).
* Audio mixing: Either USB audio cards to connect our multiple line-in
or mic voltage audio sources, or a small multi channel audio deck.
Currently we have one radio mic (the radio transmitter can have either
lapel or handheld mic plugged in, one at a time).

Anything else?

  James

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