From b07b735cc475636fa935dbb1ccadc13fea396a74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Matthias P. Braendli" Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 23:06:47 +0200 Subject: Add some notes to README --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 22134ea..95687b8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ These scripts assume that all programme streams to be included in the multiplex are mp3 webstreams. For each programme, a URL has to be specified. +The scripts are designed to be failure-resilient: in case and encoder +or a web-stream decoder crashes, an email is sent to the operator, a +log message is written to syslog, and the encoding chain is restarted. + Prerequisites ------------- You need to have a working ODR-DabMux and ODR-DabMod configuration to @@ -78,6 +82,10 @@ will automatically restart the encoder if there is a failure. The *encode-XYZ.sh* scripts contain all the logic for failure resilience, and use different players to read the stream. +*encode-libvlc.sh* is the newest addition: it launches an encoder using the +integrated libVLC input that can directly connect to a web-stream. There is +no DLS support yet. + *encode-jack.sh* is the best supported script of all these. It extracts ICY-Text and launches the mot-encoder to insert DLS and optionally slides. It needs a running JACK daemon to work, which should be started with -- cgit v1.2.3