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Mac OS X Server and Podcast Producer :: Camera and Mic Suggestion

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:01:43 +0100

Hello All,
I was wondering what kind of camera and mic you guys are using with PcP.
I am looking to capture patient/clinican interaction in a small room (approx
12'x12')

So far I am testing with a decent quality 720p Logitech USB webcam, video looks
fine but audio isn't the best. Suggestions?

TIA

Podcast Producer :: Re: Cannot process Audio Files / Audio only output

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:25:51 +0100

By: David+Pauken

Hi Marcel,

I have tested with several files, I keep a couple of files (a few minutes in length) just for testing purposes.

It should be noted that there is no introduction file attached to the workflows in question.

As I said, the issue seems to be with Audio-only output. Other workflows with video function fine, as long as I don't have an audio-only output somewhere in the workflow.

Perhaps you could shed some light on this line: 2012-01-26 13:25:17.009 qc2movie[2593:903] *** Failed updating composition repository cache

Is that a cache that I can manually clear? Where is it located?

Podcast Producer :: Re: Cannot process Audio Files / Audio only output

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:16:47 +0100

By: Marcel+Borsten

It seems to be going wrong when merging the introduction with the main content. Are you sure that your recorded material is long enough to go through the transition. I've seen workflows fails just because people were doing 'test recordings' that were only a few seconds long. Those recordings were too short for the transition to finish.

Podcast Producer :: Cannot process Audio Files / Audio only output

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:54:29 +0100

By: David+Pauken

I can no longer generate ONLY audio files out of PCP2.

This has worked fine up until this week.

The error is somewhat cryptic, but it would appear that qc2movie crashes with an "invalid display" message. There should be no display properties.

########### STDOUT ###########
Running /Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/Caches/Resources/Tools/preflight_script

########### STDERR ###########
Thu Jan 26 13:25:13 podcast.mydomain.com pcastaction[2579] <Notice>: PodcastProducer::Actions::Merge: START: [Working directory: /Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb/Contents/Resources/Working] {Arguments: --prb=/Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb --input1=/Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb/Contents/Resources/Working/7396C00C-74F1-4B40-A313-FA2A898FE220.pwf/Contents/Resources/Movies/Introduction.mov --input2=import-plugin-movie-generated.mov --duration=2 --pqz=/Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb/Contents/Resources/Working/7396C00C-74F1-4B40-A313-FA2A898FE220.pwf/Contents/Resources/Compositions/ScaleTransition.pqz --second_input_is_main_content --output=edit-core-intermediate-1.mov --edit_info_file=edit-info.yaml --direction=0} v.2
Thu Jan 26 13:25:15 podcast.mydomain.com qc2movie[2593] <Error>: kCGErrorFailure: Set a breakpoint @ CGErrorBreakpoint() to catch errors as they are logged.
2012-01-26 13:25:17.009 qc2movie[2593:903] *** Failed updating composition repository cache
2012-01-26 13:25:17.053 qc2movie[2593:903] *** CGLChoosePixelFormat() called from "-[QCCGLContext initWithPixelFormatAttributes: options:]" returned error 10006 ("invalid display" )
Thu Jan 26 13:25:17 podcast.mydomain.com pcastaction[2579] <Critical>: PodcastProducer::Actions::Merge: Failed to merge video tracks together with the '/Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb/Contents/Resources/Working/7396C00C-74F1-4B40-A313-FA2A898FE220.pwf/Contents/Resources/Compositions/ScaleTransition.pqz/Contents/Resources/Transition.qtz' composition.
Thu Jan 26 13:25:04 podcast.mydomain.com pcastaction[2567] <Notice>: PodcastProducer::Actions::QTImport: START: [Working directory: /Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb/Contents/Resources/Working] {Arguments: --prb=/Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb --input=Myron Ebell CCA III-AC3C8F55-9A21-452E-AB0C-A9D72CE54B06.mp4 --output=import-plugin-movie-generated.mov} v.2
Thu Jan 26 13:25:12 podcast.mydomain.com pcastaction[2567] <Notice>: PodcastProducer::Actions::QTImport: FINISH
Thu Jan 26 13:25:03 podcast.mydomain.com pcastaction[2564] <Notice>: PodcastProducer::Actions:: Preflight: START: [Working directory: /Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb/Contents/Resources/Working] {Arguments: --prb=/Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/UUIDs/B84D7F07-7ED7-4A0C-B608-A116391CFAC3.prb} v.2
Thu Jan 26 13:25:03 podcast.mydomain.com pcastaction[2564] <Notice>: PodcastProducer::Actions:: Preflight: Running preflight script [Script path: /Volumes/RAID_STORAGE/Podcasting/Caches/Resources/Tools/preflight_script] {Arguments: }

Podcast Producer :: Change "(iPod / iPhone)" in name field

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:58:57 +0100

By: stuartphillipson

Hi All,

I have set up a couple of custom encoding settings in the podcast composer app. When they're used the name of the episode is always appended with "(iPod / iPhone)" or "(Audio)". Does anyone know how I can change these to a custom string, for example "(MP3)"?

Thanks

Podcast Producer :: --destination_basename spaces support

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 20:45:36 +0100

By: jman.fender

Just a quick question. I'm using pcastaction upload with the flag --destination_basename to specify the title of the upload. Does anyone know of a way to incorporate spaces into the title? Here are my attempts (single and double quotes were tried):

"--destination_basename=Video Title" -- This uploads the file with the pcp naming export-quicktime-uuid.mov etc.
--destination_basename="Video Title" -- This uploads the file with the title "Video.mov

With pcastaction iTunesU you can wrap the entire --title flag with quotes to incorporate spaces, not sure how to do it with pcastaction upload. Thanks for the ideas!

Podcast Producer :: Re: sandboxd deny file-ioctl

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:43:55 +0100

By: Marcel+Borsten

I've seen problems too with custom tools in workflows and the sandbox. One solution could be to edit the sandbox file for xgrid:

/usr/share/sandbox/xgridagentd_task_somebody.sb

Just add an allow for file-ioctl

But, be warned, this is more of a hack than a solution. These files could be overwritten at any time, like when applying a software update.

Podcast Producer :: sandboxd deny file-ioctl

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:19:42 +0100

By: jman.fender

Hey all, I am running in to a frustrating problem where my xgrid jobs fail and the only error I can track down in the console in via sandboxd "deny file-ioctl".

Let me give you an idea of what I'm doing. In my workflows I have custom tasks that encode the audio and video files. The task calls a script, encoder.sh which uses ffmpeg to encode the files using libx264 and aac. The encoder.sh script isn't the problem. When encoding files standalone with the same ffmpeg commands it works just how I want. However, when my xgrid jobs fail I get an error in the Console from sandboxd saying "deny file-ioctl '/path/to/working/directory/encoder.sh'".

This only is an issue with the workflows that are set to upload to iTunesU. With other workflows that upload to our campus UIT server, it works fine. What puzzles me is that the job fails before the upload tasks even start. Has anyone else had any problems involving sandboxd with custom tasks or similar?

Podcast Producer :: Re: Podcast Producer 2, Jobs Failing

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:59:02 +0100

By: uurazzle

We are running into a issue with ffmpeg and Podcast Producer that seems dependent on file size same command & source works fine via command line but we have issues with Podcast Producer.

Here is sample...

mov file (187MB):
encodes fine with ffmpeg from terminal
podcast producer encodes fine and uploads correctly to iTunesU and UIT server

.avi file (925MB):
encodes fine with ffmpeg from terminal
podcast producer "successfully" encodes the file and uploads it, however the resulting movie is completely black (no audio)

.mov file (450MB)
fails to encode via terminal with error "av_interleaved_write_frame(): Operation not permitted"
podcast producer fails on the encode video task- possibly a corrupt timestamp within the file

To encode the files, the ffmpeg command I use is (same command for all tests):

/opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -y -i $$Base Directory$$/edit-core-master.mov -an -vcodec libx264 -vpre fast_firstpass -b 2000k -bt 2000k -deinterlace -pass 1 -threads 0 $$Base Directory$$/export-plugin-quicktime-E43D860D-31BB-454F-83AD-B2ECFFED9E92.m4v && /opt/local/bin/ffmpeg -y -i $$Base Directory$$/edit-core-master.mov -an -vcodec libx264 -vpre fast_firstpass -b 2000k -bt 2000k -deinterlace -pass 1 -threads 0 $$Base Directory$$/export-plugin-quicktime-E43D860D-31BB-454F-83AD-B2ECFFED9E92.m4v

Any suggestions?

Mac OS X Server and Podcast Producer :: Re: Create workflow without encoding

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:28:11 +0100

By: deathbrad

Has been done.

If anyone is interested in this type of workflow, I will explain how do it.