[PLUG-AV] AV workshop/busybee

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:30:36PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> As discussed in our last committee meeting: we do have the budget to
> get some of our outstanding gear.
[some fast flash storage]

> who's up for another busybee? Luke and I can make next Thursday
> (perhaps at Spacecubed?).

Still a good time? Who else can make it? Jason?

One thing we haven't gotten to was the idea of running Tim Ansell's
HDMI2USB capture and gst-switch system in parallel to our dvswitch
recordings - and it turns out that Tim's sent a Digilent Atlys Spartan-6
dev board to Perth! Elena's designing a robust half-rack-unit enclosure
for it at the Artifactory and we should be able to use the dev board
in the meantime. There's still time for a bit of feedback - e.g. what
works better, an integrated PSU with IEC plug? or a floating wall-wart?

https://github.com/timvideos/getting-started/wiki

[...]
> From previous hacking session/busybee/workshop plans, we've got a number
> of things to work on...
>  * updating our software installs (in progress!);
>  * getting things to start automatically, perhaps not Mumble;
>  * status monitoring so it's more obvious when the DV streams or icecast
>    dies, or perhaps other sanity checks like the output DV file not
>    growing, disc space not going down, oggfwd dead, network traffic
>    flowing, audio SNR in sane bounds - audio present, not silent, not
>    staticy or daleky? If something fails, can we trigger a tally-light
>    style warning?
>  * switching machine roles in case of failure;
>  * reboxing/streamlining the setup of a camera ingest or mixer station
>    (the reboxing's helped, but there's a fair way to get to with things like:
> 	http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/av/2012q3/000606.html
> 	http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=T5052
>    )

Nick.

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