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Oh, I see. Yes, it’s technically possible, but it’s easier to just run breakaway at each TX since you have a PC there anyway.
///Leif
Nono, why would you want to *multicast* the signal?
Look up Multicast on wikipedia if you don’t know what it means — it has very specific meaning, and is the opposite of what you want to do for an STL.
Exactly. If you’re gonna have a PC at the transmitter site anyway, do the stereo coding on that pc instead.
It’s absolutely possible to transmit MPX over internet (The Omnia.9 remote does, and so will the future Breakaway remote) for monitoring, but there is no point in using it for broadcast, at this point.
And, why would you want to multicast the MPX?
Motu 828 mk3 is a hardware audio interface — I’ve had flawless results with two Windows 7 64-bit machines — one USB, one firewire.
///Leif
I’m not sure what you mean. Breakaway Live has a brick wall final limiter. Two, in fact — the speaker section has another brick wall final limiter too, which kicks in if you overdrive things in the EQ section without turning the gain down.
///Leif
I routinely play Super Mario on my Wii, with the Stereo analog outputs going into Inputs 7/8 of the 8-channel audio card I’m running on my dedicated home theater processor computer, with Upmixing to 5.1 and Breakaway processing. Latency is low enough to not be an issue when playing a game (sound effects), so lip sync is also not a problem 🙂.
Breakaway HT will not allow 5.1 audio input from an external source, it will be locked to the pipeline (so it will work with any software player — just like Breakaway Audio Enhancer). Breakaway HT *WILL* however, unlike BAE, allow a stereo input from a sound card, and upmix it to 5.1.
TCP/IP remote control and touch screen support will come standard in Breakaway HT (but be options in Live / BBP). It will also have a simple but powerful HTTP interface for automation of any/every aspect of the processing.
If I figure out how to run as an APO (Audio Processing Object) in Windows Vista/7, it will support that too. This would mean essentially being a plug-in of the sound card driver, so that you wouldn’t need to use a pipeline at all!
Undo will not be part of it — movies have TOO MUCH dynamics already 😉.
As for when, that’s a different story — Breakaway Broadcast and Breakaway Live take priority, then DJ, then HT. After that, maybe Breakaway CarPC 😀.
///Leif
Indeed, TCV (time coded vinyl) does not work in the current version of Breakaway DJ, and the next version indeed will. 🙂
///Leif
StationX, the intention of movie producers is to blow you out of your chair at the cinema.
As you know, this does not translate to home theaters. People indeed complain about not hearing the dialogue, and then having explosions be too loud anyway. Thus, some kind of compression is needed. The DRC built into Dolby Digital is wideband, largely ineffective, and takes all the power and feeling out of the audio.
Breakaway in 5.1 mode, on the other hand, works great — it controls the dynamics, makes dialog intelligible while making explosions still *sound* powerful and loud, without actually being much louder.
Apart from dynamics compression, Breakaway Home Theater will also include an excellent stereo to 5.1 dynamic upmixer for both stereo movies and music, as well as a 5.1 speaker controller so that you can get the most out of any system!
///Leif
You don’t need to feed L/R and MPX at the same time!
Just MPX, and you’re on the air in full, glorious stereo.
The screen shot is just an example — if you WANT to have an L/R output for some other purpose, while also using MPX output, you certainly can.
///Leif
DBB, it is the latter (multiplex input jack), and you should NOT use a Y-cable — when breakaway generates MPX output, it gives you the full stereo MPX on both sound card outputs, so use one and leave the other hanging.
///Leif
I have never heard MP2 sound OK at 256kbps, at least not if you run a processor after. 384 sounds good.
Different people may have different opinions as to what’s OK. My tolerance for distortion and compression artifacts is very low.
///Leif
Ha! Interesting. Do you figure it could have scrounged the rest of the forum, found Linear Acoustic mentioned together with Upmixing and then thrown together a random sentence? Anything is possible I guess. Scarily enough, his English, as bad as it was, is better and more coherent than certain e-mails I’ve received from human native English speakers!
///Leif
Uhh, what? No, Linear Acoustic does not make speakers. We do however make HDTV broadcast-oriented surround sound processing equipment, but price is way out of range for all but the wealthiest of consumers — even if AERO.qc is awesome for the living room. I have one in mine, but that reflects more on the fact that I wrote the software for it, than any financial status 🙂.
I do intend to make a Breakaway Home Theater software product, and I believe it will be exactly what you’re looking for, MWyann!
///Leif
