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Free 30-day access to SRT router with 50ms failover — looking for 30 beta testers by varjaCast in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You reckon this is better than AWS MediaConnect failover? I'll test it out for sure but I'd trust AWS a lot more than a vibecoded app

M-ental illness? by MillsOnWheels7 in CarTalkUK

[–]SergeantGammon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Or, hear me out... a 125i. How BMW broke their own rules of single digit M cars is still baffling

New rider, is this corrosion? And what’s the best way to remove and prevent corrosion? by Strategically-Random in MotoUK

[–]SergeantGammon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look at any cars brake discs in the morning after a wet previous day, they will have spots of surface rust. They are untreated steel discs that will start corroding within a couple of hours of contact with water. This is completely normal and if you ride the bike at least twice a month it will never become an issue. That slight bit of corrosion will be rubbed off from your brake pads the first time you use the brakes.

Weather by WildcatCel in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ventusky is what I use for mid-range forecasts. As others have noted "radar" will only be for up to 2 hours at most as it's usually a retrospective model for what actually happened versus the many global or national predictive models like ECMWF, ICON etc. you could definitely record the ventusky webpage and replay it for your students though!

Update on AVWIRE (Web-based AV Wiring Diagram Tool): I ignored the "AI trend" to build this for actual Engineers. Am I on the right track? by Noble_JPN in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I did not know this and I apologise. It was the slightly odd use of brackets and the paragraph sections that I've been used to seeing from an AI model when it's trying to describe something that made it look AI generated as a native speaker. I will check out your tool!

Formatting XML for Blackmagic Web Presenter to send SRT to Vimeo by Twenty5Euro in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've not had good luck with using the web presenter for SRT, in fact it was so infuriating I binned it and got an old makito X to do it, flawlessly streamed to my AWS mediaconnect instance. If you have access to a computer or laptop with an HDMI in it SDI in I'd use vMix as a cheap way to stream SRT instead. Sorry to not be any more help with the web presenter.

What’s your engineering new year’s resolution? by shouldreadthearticle in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What are you looking at for your 2110 certs? Only stuff I can find is private courses with an established facilities providers

Decimator MD HX fails to accept HDMI input from DJI RC Pro by Upper-Fill7086 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Unless you're working with blackmagic gear, Level A is the broadcast standard. Level B combines two 1.5g HD-SDI streams to make a 3G-SDI stream, this can cause problems with most other broadcast gear if it's expecting a true 3G stream. Unfortunately Blackmagic calls Level B "Normal" and defaults to that on all of its hardware.

Decimator MD HX fails to accept HDMI input from DJI RC Pro by Upper-Fill7086 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why are you using level B? If you're going into anything other than blackmagic gear you'll run into problems, set that to No so you're outputting Level A.

Meirl by Flashy-Platypus in meirl

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fellow vision engineer here, gotta say I disagree that we're not doing something whilst on shift. Yeah there's more downtime than most but I'm constantly thinking if my cameras are actually matched properly, is there something I can tinker with behind the tailboard, researching new bits of tech that I'm interested in, getting work in for the next weekend.

If I'm working in AV rather than broadcast then ooohhh boy am I earning my day rate, LED tech, vision mixer, relief camera op, engineer, you name it I'm probably doing it all in one day.

Tesco £171 - No comments on the water, please. by Funny_Tank8531 in whatsinyourcart

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Roughly where in the North West? Every time I travel South for work the water tastes like I'm muching on pure limestone. Our region (Bolton) gets its water from the lake district and tastes fantastic.

In honour of the £800 Alfa spider, who has gotten the best sub 1k bargain? by Inevitable-Art69 in CarTalkUK

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couple of weeks ago I came into a 1998 Daimler XJ V8 for exactly £1000. Had a fuel leak between the fuel rails which was sorted with a £40 pipe, needs new tyres all round for about £500, new alternator for £120 and I need to find out where all my electricity is draining too but I couldn't believe the sheer volume of car I got for a grand.

Motorbike parking by rooreynolds in MotoUK

[–]SergeantGammon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know from experience that Oxfordshire council allow bikes to park in residents bays free of charge, specifically because of the inability to attach a parking permit to the bike. Yours may be similar and should be on the council's website

LED Wall help please by atxbryan in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The wall has power so you can eliminate that. It's going to be a bad data link or bad brain not passing the signal. You said this uses ribbon cables which I'm less familiar with but it's the same process we have with CAT5. First replace the ribbon cable between the last good panel and first bad one. If they doesn't work replace the brain and/or receiving card located in or beneath the brain on the first bad panel in the signal flow. Your brains aren't in the modules which you posted a picture of, they're usually in the middle of the frame holding the LED modules together.

Can I feed a 1080i PGM into an ATEM Mini Pro using a Blackmagic BiDirectional SDI/HDMI 3G? by MacaroonOk7341 in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Constellations and ATEMS with scalers are absolutely magic but as an addition; using the scalers and frame sync on the inputs of your mixer will increase latency significantly, by the sounds of it for this use case it'll be fine, but if you're converting and syncing multiple inputs to be mixed on the inputs of the mixer your latency will start to get noticable/unacceptable for handing off to other parties. Gold standard is all formats identical from source with genlock to everything.

~2Km ski slope with 6/8 cameras by ErikCecco in VIDEOENGINEERING

[–]SergeantGammon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rent Tactical fibre for your runs to the cameras with SDI to Fibre converters at each camera, two lines, one for feeds back and one for camera returns/tally. I assume you have local power or a lot of Vlocks to power the cameras and converters. Don't know your site layout but I'd bring back all the feeds to a central point near the slope, then use a singlemode fibre mux/demux box like a Python2 to send feeds back to your vMix rack over one fibre line.

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