Perceptual image and audio deduplication
Okay, two months without a post, won’t happen again… So, lately I’ve been moving out from the broadcast area and getting back into webapp development, but some of the things I’ve been working on touch quite heavily on deduplication, of images and music. This is quite an interesting topic, so let’s have a look at [...]
TV on a budget – rolling your own RTMP
So, having moved on from my work at Insanity Radio attempting to build a professional-quality radio station, I’m now going into building a professional quality TV station from the ground up. Trouble is, there is literally no budget (yet, at least), but we wanted to cover events during the Fresher’s Week here at Royal Holloway. [...]
Interfacing SilentJack and Nagios
So, silence detection is a big deal when it comes to monitoring broadcast audio systems. You want to be sure your stuff is making noise. If your sustainer’s not putting anything out, it’s not a lot of good. SilentJack is an awesome little utility from the king of ‘oh, that’s a handy little program for [...]