Re: [Jack-Devel] Network Transmission

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On 01.10.2011 14:21, Peter Hoskin wrote:
> Hi,
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> I work as a volunteer technical officer at a not-for-profit FM radio 
> broadcaster.
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> I'm writing mainly for advice in solving issues that will soon be an
> issue in the future as there doesn't seem to be any software based
> solutions.
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> Typically a radio broadcaster will have a studio and a remote
> transmitting site and will use microwave or telephone carrier based
> connectivity to send audio to the transmitter site. This is called
> STL. Radio stations often broadcast time information and therefore
> want low delay transmissions. There is an increased use of what the
> radio broadcast industry is calling STL-IP or Studio to Transmitter
> Links over IP networks. With the adoption of digital broadcasting
> such as DAB+, STL-IP is becoming the norm and appears to be a
> requirement to gain access to DAB+ transmitters in many cases.
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> Typically STL-IP is used with a dedicated hardware device that uses
> AAC codecs, has an Ethernet port, supports multicast, and has a
> routing table capable of failing over to alternate IP pathways. The
> transmission standard is open and Wikipedia has details on this at 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_over_IP
> 

Did you have a look at Ravenna?
http://ravenna.alcnetworx.com/

I think its quite a good solution and an open source implementation for
linux is already in developement.

bye
Ck

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