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Hi all,<br>
<br>
We had a few of us at Artifactory last night. We got two cameras,
dvswitch hots and audio desk set up in about an hour; AV4 continued
to give us trouble. Euan had had us set up with three audio sources
- two XLR mics, plus the radio mic; and the correct adaptors for us
to use the main output into Av2 for audio capture. <br>
<br>
Euan also had a neat hack on gstreamer to be able to dynamically
title the video as it came out of dvswitch (before the encoder,
which is before the video is sent to oggfwd and thus Icecast). By
editing (sand saving) a test file, we can render Pango formatted
text (basically, think basic HTML with colour support) including
semi-transparent shading. This looked super cool.<br>
<br>
We discussed how we could get a DV file to be played, and demux the
audio from it to route audio to the mixing desk, and video direct to
dvswitch; that audio would then be brought into dvswitch
(potentially mixed with other sources). This would mean that we
could output the audio the mixing desk to the PA in the room as well
as out to the stream...<br>
<br>
Mumble worked for us on two of the three machines - at last! AV3
(small white box) has no mic input working. Looks like USB headsets
are the way to go; these machines are just too fragile/broken. But
getting mumble working meant that from opposite sides of the room we
(the AV team present) could talk and coordinate camera movement). <br>
<br>
Other items:<br>
<ul>
<li>The old AMD CPU from AV2 (which was replaced with a nice quad
core) was not suitable to go into AV4 (black unreliable box).</li>
<li>Jason's updated the Wiki with more notes.</li>
<li>We got some old PLUG equipment, including two more of the 20
metre orange/yellow extension leads , so we're very well off for
power now!</li>
<li>We haven't tested the tally light yet<br>
</li>
<li><b>I have spoken with Lotterywest this morning (Alan called
me); there's no way they're going to be able to put our grant
through this side of November! </b><br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
In order to adequately cover the Rusty talk I think we only need
Tripods, USB headsets, possibly could do with a USB mouse and
keyboard or two, and possibly scavange one more PC if we're going to
run a third camera on the night; anyone able to organise that (must
have at least a 100 Mbit/s ethernet card in it).<br>
<br>
The biggest shortage we have right now is people turning up to help.
For the Rusty talk we will need 6 people on the AV team at least
(excluding me, as I have to run the meeting); half of that is
pointing cameras - framing nicely, etc. For the last talk (Luakit)
we had just three of us in total working the kit. Please turn up for
the next talk early (like, an hour early or more) and help set up,
and practice framing etc. We'll probably run one more
workshop/practice before the Rusty talk as well.<br>
<br>
Sometime over the next few weeks we'll shout out that we'll have a
look at the venue for the Rusty talk - at this stage, Geography
Lecture Theatre 1 at UWA. It will be during the day around normal
uni lectures; we'll be scoping out where we'll be placing kit, etc.
I'll ping this list as early as possible in case you would like to
come along and help plan.<br>
<br>
Big thanks to everyone who helped out last night in testing and
helping us fine tune our skills.<br>
<br>
James<br>
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