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I have my playout produce a text file, then point breakaway streamer to that text file. You have the option of a URL or file path.
http://ecmc.rochester.edu/ecmc/docs/lame/switchs.html
Look at the first note under the grid: For WAV and AIFF input files, using "-m m" will always produce a mono .mp3 file from both mono and stereo input.
I found if you set your encoder to Custom, you can directly edit the lame.exe command line. This allows you to modify the arguments, like -q 0 to enable the highest quality setting, where the default is -q 3. You can also use the -m switch to change the stereo/joint stereo mode. You also get a gain control slider if you'd like to adjust that. One thing I found is you need to leave the existing arguments there, -r and the -s and -b items. I had to remove -x as it was only outputting static. This has something to do with endian and little endian bytes.
[quote author=Leif link=topic=5731.msg20028#msg20028 date=1556264686]
Hi guys!I've been gone a long time — dealing with urgent product development as well as building a house and moving. I've had no idle time to go on facebook for literally 6 months, and the little idle time I had was better spent away from the computer. I'm finally pretty close to being caught up. I do apologize for the troubles you've been having, and appreciate how patient you've been so far!
1) Yes, BaOne will restart automatically when running as a service.
2) Any time BaOne is shut down for any reason, there should be a trace left of some kind.
A shutdown event should be logged in one of several ways. There are many different types of logs.
a. If the service is shut down normally, the entire shutdown procedure is logged in the Startup log.
b. If the service crashes, there should be a crash dump (both a .dmp and .txt file) in the dump\ folder, and an entry in the startup log.
c. If any thread inside BreakawayOne freezes up for an extended period of time, first a warning is issued in dump\BreakawayOneApp_freeze.log.txt, and if it stays frozen for long enough, it repeats the warning and adds “- TERMINATING”, and then terminates the process, so that the service can be restarted. This happened once according to the log files you sent me, while reading streaming metadata, but temporary freezes appear to be happening regularly, in the streaming encoder thread.
That does not make sense to me — according to your settings, metadata is simply being read from a file on your drive. That should not be taking significant time. That is something I need to look into — there could be a bug in my code, or something else could be going on that I’m not yet understanding.
As designed, the only way it should be possible for BreakawayOne to exit without leaving a trace is if the process is forcibly terminated, for example with TASKKILL or with task manager.If Breakaway is crashing at the transmitter site, adding the management package to the studio site would NOT help.
I can add an option to log something every few seconds, but I’m not sure what that would tell us, since it still wouldn’t tell us what happened.
My current framework version is 3.19.77, and I’ve fixed several small bugs in multiple parts of the code since the last time I rebuilt BreakawayOne, and added more detailed logging in some places. Perhaps it’s time I build a new version for you to test, as a first step to tracking down and solving the problem.
Best,
///Leif
[/quote]Hey Leif,
It's been a while! Glad to see you back! I am definitely on board with helping you test a new version. I'd love to get your thoughts on testing VST3 and WASAPI Exclusive mode for audio transport.
Thanks!
IN the config app there's settings for buffer size and such. There is an option to automatically determine the best settings. Run that and it should give you the recommended sizes. I also notice you have your format range settings set to 48000, I would change that to 44100 on both of those items. If you're sending audio outside of breakaway, say, to a sound card or another device, you'll need to have 2 cables enabled. Also, run through all the windows sound settings and make sure sample and bit rates all match up.
The only problem I see is the licensing for BAOne is based on MAC address, so that one computer. You might get away with using a trial version, but you'd run into the audible reminders that this is trial software. Unless you had some other processing software, like StereoTool loaded on the other PC?
I can't completely relate. But I run BAOne with one HD Core and streaming add-on 24/7 on Windows Server 2016 (same core OS as Windows 10) on a consumer grade Dell Desktop 4th gen i7 CPU 16gb RAM. I run it on my user, not as a service (no management pkg) and have never had it just crash on me. I've manually taken it down to make config changes or windows updates. But the program itself has never once crashed or stopped working. I only use Breakaway Pipelines hooked to my station playlist automation, no physical sound cards are in use, unless I am editing or setting cue/intro points in my software. Again, not exactly the same situation or use case as you, but again, I've never had any reliability issues with BAOne.
I've enabled Mono Bass a couple times just to try it out, this is on HD/Streaming only. But it feels like it reduces the bass. I don't know the technical terms for that but it just seems like there's less bass when Mono Bass is enabled. I know some StereoTool presets use that feature and the bass actually sounds better, or more pronounced. Anyone else get this when using it in BaOne?
[quote author=nick_ca link=topic=5618.msg19743#msg19743 date=1548914946]
Hi aleph99,…
To turn down the output volume of BreakawayOne, go to Misc, I/O, Output. That's where the output volume control is.
[/quote]But I don't think that controls levels into the encoder(s). That may just be a master output (speakers/asio). I don't know for sure but I've spoken at length with Leif and Jesse about the streaming output levels. They're just hard-coded.
I understand that it's hard-coded based on the codec chosen and bitrate, etc. So, in theory it should be at the best level for the codec you have set.
I am really enjoying the natural sound of JG Modern. It's fairly strong but also quite transparent. You do need to use R128Gain or some tool to level your audio to -23db, as mentioned in the preset description. The unique factor is there's no real use of AGC, it's just controlled by the multiband section. It lets things live and breathe. If you have something really loud and dense and it's followed immediately by something softer, there's a bit of recovery you'll notice… But it's not at all a negative thing. Try it!
