🔊 Audio over IP with OpenBroadcaster 🔊
LIVE Assist Webinar
Join us Thursday, October 20 at 10:00 AM PST for a 30 minute demo on the Live Assist feature of our player including:
* LIVE Assist Mode
* Accepting incoming streams from remote locations
* Hot Button Player and LA Play Lists
This Webinar will be archived and available after.
http://support.openbroadcaster.pro/basics.html#live-assist
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
Our presentation in Bangkok at the global CAP Alerting workshop
http://preparecenter.org/cap-workshop-2016-report.pdf
AES67 and Ravenna
Audio over Internet Protocol (AoIP) support is under development and presently in testing. This will allow our systems to be compatible with modern digital boards and peripheral devices that support these low-latency protocols.
Call out to anyone using Ravenna Supported mixing boards including Axia, Wheatstone, etc that wish to try out our new systems.
http://www.ravenna-network.com/
National CAP Tests Sept 21, 2016
We received a call from a customer that didn’t receive and play the test alert. Upon investigation, we determined they had inputted the wrong SGC Code for their region. Please ensure you have the proper SGC code. Here is a tool to help confirm and select the SGC code for your area.
http://support.openbroadcaster.pro/location-geocodes
We also had a question about stations reporting to Pelmorex how they receive CAP feeds. Our customers are receiving TCP Socket Feeds supplied by DSL/Cable modems.
CAP Alert Player Receiving TTS Attachments
Some messages being sent to Pelmorex for distribution are in WAV/MP3. This results in much better audio quality and more natural sounding voices, not relying on local TTS. You might see these in the logs as downloading from Amazon as WAV/MP3 files.
Our systems are already designed for this function and will automatically play these types of TTS attachments (when present) that will be accepted and processed successfully without any user intervention.
Contact us anytime if you need any assistance.
New Features and Code Updates
Player and Server
* Recent updates to the CLFG including reading out info from the description field
* Downloading local audio logs and player application logs from Dashboard status page
* Fixed condition where Player will keep legacy settings for Remote mode
* Inputs and Outputs separated into different menu tabs
* Player reports version back to server
To receive updates for the Player. Dashboard >Check for updates>Save>Restart player
https://openbroadcaster.pro/changelog
Support Pages
http://support.openbroadcaster.pro/accessories
We have included a separate page for accessories and configuration examples.
Training Outlines
http://support.openbroadcaster.pro/training
Training materials and outlines. Let us know if there is a specific training module that is needed.
Server Clusters and Virtual Machines
We now support enterprise server clustering in Canada’s north to make a better user experience at these satellite based communities where internet has latency issues and bandwidth is very expensive.
Coming up
Transitioning to updated Xubuntu 16.04. This allows a newer Gstreamer multimedia framework for international language support and smoother Text To Speech. Moving to 100% headless operation with Pulse audio as the default while continuing to support JACK audio.