#44 Confidence monitoring would be very useful

[Martyn C]

Hi Daniel,

You have a wonderful project which has a huge reputation for being dependable. Thanks!

I would like to suggest two additional options meaning that the tool would be even more useful, especially for those with studio facilities.

Firstly, being able to stream and record at different bitrates is extremely useful BUT both feeds must have the same DSP! It would be great to have an option to only add DSP to the live stream, so that the recording for later editing is unprocessed, as it would then go through the DSP when it gets repeated.

The second is to have an option for an automatic decode of the streaming signal back onto a selected analogue output, acting as a confidence feed for a sound engineer. It would be continuously present, as this would allow for quality checks of sufficient bitrate and DSP to be made before streaming commences.

In a studio situation, these two additional options would make your software even more unbeatable!

[Daniel Nöthen]

Hello Martyn,

thanks for your feature suggestions.
The first is definitely something I will take into consideration.

I can understand the idea behind the second suggestion but this would mean I have to
integrate an audio streaming player into BUTT which is not the idea behind it.
Why not simply use something like VLC to monitor the stream?

Best,
Daniel

[Martyn C]

Thanks for your speedy reply.

Some of the drawbacks with using a separate client, listening via the main server are:

It's not possible to rehearse privately with the DSP and encoding losses provided by BUTT, since you have to stream to the entire internet to be able to hear your output as your listeners will . At present, I have to use external units to process the mixed output to be sure that it's acceptable.

Monitoring via the main server means the time delay significantly increases, which makes it unusable for monitoring while live-mixing the show.

I've just thought of one possible solution that's more lightweight, but I don't know how feasible this is. Could the streaming bitstream be available (perhaps a nominated localhost port?) such that VLC or similar client could pull it, when required?

I understand that this would be a considerable addition to the project and probably wouldn't be used by most people, but I thought I would ask. Many thanks again for all your time.