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</head><body><p>We'll all be very interested to hear how you get on - valuable experience to share I hope.</p><p>For minimum cost I would have gone for a similar flight case arrangement, but fitted a low power PC or laptop in the case for greatest flexibility and used free streaming software. If it all proved highly successful and well-used, I might then move on to considering more expensive proprietary gear to lock down the system more robustly. </p><p>In our case it has been proved to be needed no more than a couple of times a year, and entirely reliable, so we have stuck with the laptop option!</p><p>Alex</p><blockquote type="cite"><p>On 05 October 2016 at 11:26 Callum McLean <mail@callum-mclean.co.uk> wrote:<br><br><br>Very true - will probably come in handy in the future to have a SIP-<br>based system at the station end, just so we can perhaps build some<br>smaller kits to be able to run out-and-about with that we can easily<br>downlink from at the station end...<br><br>All food for thought!<br><br>What we're going for at the minute though is a kit that's all installed<br>in a flight case, so we can effectively plug in power and a wired<br>internet connection and be ready to host a live show remotely for a few<br>hours at a time, with half-decent quality - that's why we've gone for<br>the Sonifex PS-PLAY/SEND option: it means we can have everything in one<br>rack - networking, CDs, desk - and have everything internally cabled,<br>but still be simple enough for volunteers to be able to set up, given a<br>well-written guide.<br><br>Kit all arrives in the next few days - looking forward to building it!<br>:D<br><br>Cal<br><br>On Sun, 2016-10-02 at 16:14 +0100, Marc Steele wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite"><p>Hello,<br>The other upside of using SIP is that you can mix and match kit. For<br>example, in a past life, we combined track mounted Comrex IP codecs<br>and softphones in the field to get broadcast quality audio back to<br>the studios.<br>The thing to watch with using these out and about is indeed the<br>quality of the line you can get back. Be prepared to trade bitrate<br>for reliability at events and don't bother even trying 3G/4G at<br>really big events.<br>Regards,<br>Marc.<br><br>On 2 Oct 2016 3:34 p.m., "Callum McLean" <mail@callum-mclean.co.uk><br>wrote:</p><blockquote type="cite"><p>I was thinking about the Barix kit, but I didn't get the impression<br>that it was going to be robust enough... <br><br>Good to know that other people have used the PS-kit successfully -<br>and<br>cheers for the heads-up about potentially high latency in the MP3<br>format! Was hoping not to go down the MP3 route in any case, but<br>still<br>good to know...<br><br>Good shout about using SIP to negotiate the connection - will look<br>into<br>it!<br><br>Has anyone used this sort of kit in a flyaway environment - i.e.<br>not in<br>installations? Typically, this is the sort of thing where most<br>people<br>might use a) an ISDN line; b) a flyaway sat connection; c) a bonded<br>4G<br>link. We *were* going to go down the multiple-carrier bonded 4G<br>route,<br>until the cost just became prohibitive for what we want to achieve.<br><br>Also, to answer Iain's question, we're only using this over the<br>public<br>internet - the plan is to require the venue hosting the OB to<br>provide<br>us with a solid, wired internet connection - protected within their<br>own<br>networking infrastructure, where possible, and then do everything<br>we<br>can to keep latency and bandwidth down whilst retaining audio<br>quality.<br>The only downside with the Sonifex kit is that they don't support<br>encoding in Opus :(<br><br>Cal McLean<br><br>--<br>Station Technician // Halton Community Radio 92.3 FM<br>mail@callum-mclean.co.uk<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Reply - cma-l@commedia.org.uk<br><br>The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the<br>Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk<br>Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media<br>http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation<br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email<br>-lists/email-list-guidelines/<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription<br>please visit:<br>http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</p></blockquote><p>_______________________________________________<br>Reply - cma-l@commedia.org.uk<br><br>The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the<br>Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk<br>Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media<br>http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation<br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-l<br>ists/email-list-guidelines/<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please<br>visit:<br>http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</p></blockquote><p>_______________________________________________<br><br>Reply - cma-l@commedia.org.uk<br><br>The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk<br>Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media<br>http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation<br>Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/<br>_______________________________________________<br><br>To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:<br>http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</p></blockquote><p>> http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l</p></body></html>