Roses 2022: Difference between revisions

The selected plan was "all of them, at the same time", so [[Rhys Milling|Rhys]] requested yet more VMs, [[Dan Wade]] installed the GPU, and [[Ben Allen]] wrote up some FFMPEG [[Fuckary|fuckary]] to use it for transcoding. In the end, this one GPU could handle all six concurrent streams without breaking a sweat, and the VMs weren't actually used (though having them there as a safety net was definitely useful). Great! Surely all our woes were gone? Wait, there's another paragraph in this section?

To resolve this, [[Ben Allen|Ben]] hatched a dastardly plan: LA1:TV had a Wowza streaming server on site which was malfunctioning, but would have the necessary ports unblocked, so we could stream to it from Lancaster and then pull in the streams from it into York's network, at which point we can do whatever we please. Some mildly panicked Slack messages and a Zoom call with a LA1 alumnus later (at 11:30 in the evening, as everyone else was going into town), Ben had the admin credentials for this server, so alongside Marks and later [[Liam Burnand]] he holed himself up in the studios of Bailrigg FM (the only place we would have access that late at night) and reworked our entire streaming architecture. Marks and Liam left Bailrigg just before 5am and got some rest (or at least Marks did, while Liam decided to not sleep that night). Marks woke up at around 7am to messages from Ben, who had just left Bailrigg.