Figured Out How To Use Playlists

[gronke]

But it's difficult, so bear with me:

Here's how I did it. You'll need the same type of equipment I have, or if you have a better way, pleaaase let me know.

1. ATI Radeon 9500 Pro /w TV OUT: Run the RCA cable to your VCR's "video in".

2. Run an RCA cable from your "video out" on your VCR to something like my ATI All-in-wonder VE TV capture card.

3. Run your speaker out to your microphone or line in.

4. Open up NSVCap, set your video source to "composite in" and your audio source to "microphone/line in" (whichever you chose).

Voila! Queue up all your content in Winamp, run the video full screen, and you're done.

I have this running up on www.databasealpha.com , however my computer is laggy, and I think it went into hibernate mode, so the video isn't working atm, but I *assure* you that this setup works.

Simple TV out video cards, old ones, can be bought for under $30, and the All-in-wonder VE is about $50 at Best Buy. Have fun!

[Jay]

better ways

zip (with no compression) all your nsv files in the order you want them to run

rename the resulting zip file with an nsv extension

use nsvscsrc to broadcast the new larger nsv file.

or

just use nsvscsrc if you don't care about order.

[gronke]

I eliminated the VCR section by running an RCA straight from my tv out to my tv tuner (it accepts composite inputs). I still think my set up is pretty nice, and allows you to keep winamp open for easy playlist editing.

[Jay]

well, whatever works for ya, I wrote my own script to do this as nsvscsrc wasn't as convienient to use and I need something for Red Hat.

[drwav]

I've seen you mention this script before, it would be really nice of you if you could share this script with the rest of us.

Thanks.

In addition, I am using the large zip file with no compression, it works well, but not as good as having all the files seperate with a playlist.

[Jay]

yea I will as soon as i can read NSV frames and throttle the stream properly.

[drwav]

I noticed that you seem to have some involvment in the XRM radio station, would you also be involved in XRM TV. I noticed that the videos in rotation play in a very specific and repeating sequence and they don't use the single uncompressed zip file trick. If you are involved with that project, do you know how this was acomplished.

I'm making a lot of jumps in logic here, so if I am way off base, I apologize ahead of time.

Thanks.

[Jay]

yea, I write the programming behind the stations. The XRM TV broadcast is where i test this php script I have talked about.

[drwav]

I look forward to seeing this script, I hope that it will be available for the masses to see soon. Also, are you using the PHP command line interface to execute the script? That seems to me to be the only way you could really do it.

I also don't know if this is the place for some viewer feedback, if it is unwelcome at this juncture, please ignore. Anyway, I was thinking that since the majority of your content at this point is music videos you might want to consider sacrificing video quality for audio... say perhaps 96kbps. 56kbps for audio just sounds really really bad since MP3 really falls short at low bitrates. Since the primary content is music, I am of the opinion that the audio quality would be the most important even if it is at the expense of video quality... but that is me. Again, if you don't care about my opinion, please disregard and pretend I didn't say anything.