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They’re the only ones I can think of at the moment, but they do speak English, so e-mailing them is the right way to go.
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///LeifThere are companies that deliver ready-made BBP systems, for example this one:
http://www.broadcastservicenoord.nl/sdbp.html
It’s still the worlds cleanest sounding FM processor, and the price is still lower than competing hardware units, so it could be a good choice for your station.
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///LeifCamclone, the bluescreen doesn’t happen on any of my 64-bit machines.
I will take a look at the crash dump, though.
How come you chose Windows 7 64-bit for your critical on the air machine, above something time-proven like XP 32?
Breakaway is a 32-bit app and yields no benefit from a 64-bit system.
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///LeifThere are several consumer grade cards, but i don’t know of a pro one except juli@. They’re generally called "low profile", try googling that.
///Leif
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[quote author=”michi95″]Is this a special hidden bug tracking function for analysis purpose ?Do you (Leif) have forgotten to disable it for the public beta release ?[/quote]
Yes. I use wave dumping the way an electronics engineer would use oscilloscope probes.
In Breakaway Live, I enabled wave dumping to test the latency of the processing. Channel 1 of the output file is Left channel before processing, Channel 2 is left channel after processing. Thus, by playing clicks into the breakaway input, and looking at the output in Adobe Audition, I could get an exact figure of how much latency the processing is adding.
I forgot to take it out for the release. My bad! Will take it out for 0.90.95. Thanks for finding it 🙂.
///Leif
I believe you should be able to run Breakaway Live on the same machine as Flash Live Encoder, with no additional audio hardware. Simply let Breakaway Live record from the existing sound card, and set the Breakaway Live output to Breakaway Pipeline, and set Flash to record from Breakaway Pipeline instead of the sound card!
You can try this with the trial version, to make sure it will work properly, before you actually purchase.
///Leif
If by small form factor you mean half-height PCI, I really only know consumer sound cards. I’ve never seen a half-height pro-card.
ASUS Xonar DX is half-height, but has serious problems with the ASIO drivers (input basically unusable).
ESI Juli@ is a nice pro-card, and not technically half-height, but it comes in two parts which connect together.
If you were to extend these headers, you’d be able to mount it at a 90 degree angle, and then it would probably fit in your small form factor case.
Or, you could just use an external audio interface.
That’s all the advice I can give without knowing more about what you’re trying to do. Feel free to elaborate 🙂.
///Leif
[quote author=”michi95″]rom my point view it is time to release a 1.00 version (just wait a few weeks for user feedback – if anybody has a severe problem with build 94).[/quote]
I’ve actually been meaning to do this for a long time now, and then all of a sudden we had a rash of strange things reported from customers, such as BBP using more and more cpu every day until audio starts stuttering — all things I have never been able to reproduce, and which seem to not affect the majority of users. This is why it’s been so long since I even put a new version on the official download page, but I think what I’m going to have to do now is to simply ignore these reports and release anyway, cause I can’t hold the release forever, and I can’t fix what’s not broken.
Good point about Twente though. Will do it for 0.90.95, along with Motor City.
///Leif
Very strange — Breakaway now fully supports WaveRT-based Kernel Streaming in Windows Vista and Windows 7, both 32- and 64-bit. I’m unable to reproduce any problems at this point, it works perfectly on every machine I have access to.
The only suggestion I can make is to try a different driver version — if you’re using OEM drivers perhaps try the ones that come with Windows, or vice versa. I have a Dell laptop with Soundmax and Windows 7, and it works great there as well (although it’s 32-bit).
If there’s really no way to make it work without safe mode, please try the expert configuration instead, and try "Wave" instead of DS. Please note that this will be slower (longer delay) but it should at the very least be possible to have it run stable. You might try 1024×8 buffers to start with, and work your way down from there until you find the optimum settings that still play cleanly.
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//Leif[quote author=”michi95″]It seems to me as if you try to redefine the meaning of "beta version" with the type of your stable and reliable beta releases ![/quote]
You know what, you’re right.. And it really doesn’t make sense to be spending this much time on 0.0001 worth of a version number increase. I should be making bigger jumps for sure. I guess I’ve kinda painted myself into a corner too. Maybe it’s time I jump out 🙂.
Only thing is.. Let’s say I make the next version 0.91.00… How much do you want to bet that lots of people will confuse it with 0.90.91?
Perhaps I should make the next version 0.95.00 just to be sure? 🙂
Decisions, decisions.
Regarding beta and stability, i wonder if the answer is that I develop differently from how most software is developed?
My development goals are a moving target. I know I’m making an audio processor, sure, but I tend to implement new features as I (or friends, or customers) need them. This means that I don’t have a long feature list to implement all in one go. If I did, I would probably have done that, ended up with something relatively buggy, and that would have been the beta. Then I would work out the bugs little by little until it was ready for release.
Doing it that way would be a tedious way to develop though. The initial development / inventing is the fun part, finding bugs later is no fun at all. Thus, as a survival strategy, I try to spread the fun out, in fact I save it for last whenever I can. When it came to Challenger, I did the gui the first day, without writing a line of the actual audio algorithm. Once that boring part was done, I did the actual audio part the next day. That way, I had the fun part to look forward to, which helped me through the boring part.
This also means that I’m very careful not to pull it apart too much at the same time. I try to keep it stable and properly functioning throughout development, because if it ever doesn’t work, any number of other problems could be hiding behind the currently visible problem, and it’s that much harder to get it working again. Occasionally, bugs do slip through (I don’t know how the 0.90.93 broken limiter in Live slipped past though, that was ugly), but usually it’s pretty stable and usable throughout development.
Sorry, rambling on.. Anyway, I believe the above are a reasonable explanation why the beta label doesn’t mean much when it comes to my projects. My goal in development is a constantly moving target, so I have to tread carefully so I don’t fall and break my leg before I can catch up to it 😉.
Best regards,
///Leif[quote author=”rebel”] Allow multiple instances, useful for leaving it running watching two or more stations live at the same time.[/quote]
This actually already exists 🙂. Edit the shortcut and add "-multi" to the command line, like this:
The other features are all good ideas, but I don’t know that I’ll be spending much more time on MpxTool — there’s so few people using it and I’ve sold only a handful of copies total, I’m not sure I can justify spending any more time on it. I guess I overestimated the number of people who would be interested. It would be nice as a hardware product with built in tuner though, so there’s no calibration necessary.
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///LeifCorrect, I’m afraid only one copy of Breakaway can be running at a time. If a copy in another user account is already using the sound card, the new copy cannot open the sound card. Sorry for the inconvenience.
///Leif
This makes no sense to me, is anyone else seeing this?
If the meters in Breakaway are running, obviously Breakaway is getting the audio. If Test mode works, obviously output is working. Where’s the disconnect? As far as I know, the only possible disconnect between the two would be to turn the volume in Breakaway all the way down.
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///Leif
