X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/6feaa8e9aedf2698429c2dde5ec018143fe92129..37b6bfd6c275b3df8f2345807ce410ab3e05bdfc:/blog/data/2015-02-08-frikanalen-video-monitor.txt diff --git a/blog/data/2015-02-08-frikanalen-video-monitor.txt b/blog/data/2015-02-08-frikanalen-video-monitor.txt index 536d6bb75b..3d510d5e0c 100644 --- a/blog/data/2015-02-08-frikanalen-video-monitor.txt +++ b/blog/data/2015-02-08-frikanalen-video-monitor.txt @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Date: 2015-02-08 13:00

When running a TV station with both broadcast and web stream distribution, it is useful to know that the stream is working. As I am involved in the Norwegian open channel -Frikanalen as part of my -activity in the NUUG member +Frikanalen as part of my +activity in the NUUG member organisation, I wrote a script to use mplayer to connect to a video stream, pick two images 35 seconds apart and compare them. If the images are missing or identical, something is probably wrong with @@ -35,3 +35,9 @@ following activity, we now have the schedule XMLTV too. Still a lot of work left to do, especially with the process to add videos and with the scheduling, so your contribution is most welcome. Perhaps you want to set up your own TV station?

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Update 2015-02-25: Got a tip from Uninett about their +qstream +monitoring system, which gather connection time, jitter, packet +loss and burst bandwidth usage. It look useful to check if UDP +streams are working as they should.