Question on station stream
 

A station (WPRB) when it signs off for the night, the stream continues
to feed static and the mixed music from the stations next to it on the
dial.

The delay from the station in real time to the stream is quite long -
about ten seconds.

Is this typical? What do you think's going on engineering-wise :)

"oblamov" wrote in message
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A station (WPRB) when it signs off for the night, the stream continues
to feed static and the mixed music from the stations next to it on the
dial.

The delay from the station in real time to the stream is quite long -
about ten seconds.

Is this typical? What do you think's going on engineering-wise :)

Well, the first part is fairly obvious, isn't it? The station is using its off-air
monitor to feed the encoder, or the encoder is off-premises, and is taking the feed
off the air since that's a no-cost way to get the programming from the studio to the
encoder. The second part is that most encoders need some time to encode the audio,
plus your player buffers the stream so as to be able to, maybe, fill in a missing
packet to reduce dropouts. The delay resides almost entirely within the player
because of this need, however.
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oblamov wrote:
A station (WPRB) when it signs off for the night, the stream continues
to feed static and the mixed music from the stations next to it on the
dial.

The delay from the station in real time to the stream is quite long -
about ten seconds.

Is this typical? What do you think's going on engineering-wise :)

I think they are streaming from the output of the station monitor, and
the checklist for the board op at the end of the day does not include
shutting off the station monitor...
--scott
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"Scott Dorsey" wrote in message ...
In article ,
oblamov wrote:
A station (WPRB) when it signs off for the night, the stream continues
to feed static and the mixed music from the stations next to it on the
dial.

The delay from the station in real time to the stream is quite long -
about ten seconds.

Is this typical? What do you think's going on engineering-wise :)

I think they are streaming from the output of the station monitor, and
the checklist for the board op at the end of the day does not include
shutting off the station monitor...

I wouldn't want anyone shutting off the station monitor!
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If there's nothing that offends you in your community, then you know you're not
living in a free society.
Kim Campbell - ex-Prime Minister of Canada - 2004
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For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!-