Re: Voice Troubleshooting Assistance
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:43 am
Hi Eileen,
Basically we just used our shoutcast stream.. but for us it gets complicated because we present in both Second Life and Kitely simultaneously..
We present audio, and video feeds, as well as live chat to the audiences on both grids, often with multiple presenters that are also present on both grids.
(We used to do InWorldz too at the same time for exciting 3-ways)
It's pretty cool cuz audiences in both SL and Kitely can see and converse with each other, and both audiences can hear the storytellers.
With voice down in Kitely we had to have both our presenters on Voice in Second Life, with an alt avatar in SL that could 'hear' both our presenters and back feed the stream audio (which we did by plugging a cable between the mic and earphones on the other computer - other ways to do it, but at 10 minutes till show time old school worked just fine!). We normally have an alt in attendance on both grids to act as the 'cameraman' to provide the live video feed back to other grid. And of course there is the matter of our cameraman getting booted during the show due to inactivity.. but we deal with that too.
ANYway... most likely that all this is far more than you need. If you are presenting in just Kitely and with just one presenter you should be able to just use a shoutcast stream and set your Land stream to the url for your stream that you are presenting on and all avatars on your land should be able to hear just fine. You will want to get this setup ahead of time as you'll need to install a couple plug ins and stuff to get it all working. I'm sure there are people here that know better than I do, but we just use Winamp with the Shoutcast Source DSP plugin.
Please let us know if you need help finding where to get yourself a Shoutcast stream and getting it setup...
I can send you some sample screen shots of a few of the configs you need to make.
And of course, I defer to anyone here that has a simpler solution for ya!
Oh and please do note that depending on connections, and provider, and other oddities, your Stream audio will have a delay from the time you talk to the moment your audience hears you. We usually experience a 15-20 second delay. Once the stream starts you may not be aware of it, but when we have multiple things going on.. like chat and video feed.. even that small delay can make things seem a little weird sometimes.
Oh, one last thing... come on by Seanchai Library in Kitely any Thursday evening and visit with us and listen to our fine storytellers in Live Voice. Bring your friends. Or send people you don't like. Or sneakTP strangers over.. any thing to help us build attendance.. LoL!
Basically we just used our shoutcast stream.. but for us it gets complicated because we present in both Second Life and Kitely simultaneously..
We present audio, and video feeds, as well as live chat to the audiences on both grids, often with multiple presenters that are also present on both grids.
(We used to do InWorldz too at the same time for exciting 3-ways)
It's pretty cool cuz audiences in both SL and Kitely can see and converse with each other, and both audiences can hear the storytellers.
With voice down in Kitely we had to have both our presenters on Voice in Second Life, with an alt avatar in SL that could 'hear' both our presenters and back feed the stream audio (which we did by plugging a cable between the mic and earphones on the other computer - other ways to do it, but at 10 minutes till show time old school worked just fine!). We normally have an alt in attendance on both grids to act as the 'cameraman' to provide the live video feed back to other grid. And of course there is the matter of our cameraman getting booted during the show due to inactivity.. but we deal with that too.
ANYway... most likely that all this is far more than you need. If you are presenting in just Kitely and with just one presenter you should be able to just use a shoutcast stream and set your Land stream to the url for your stream that you are presenting on and all avatars on your land should be able to hear just fine. You will want to get this setup ahead of time as you'll need to install a couple plug ins and stuff to get it all working. I'm sure there are people here that know better than I do, but we just use Winamp with the Shoutcast Source DSP plugin.
Please let us know if you need help finding where to get yourself a Shoutcast stream and getting it setup...
I can send you some sample screen shots of a few of the configs you need to make.
And of course, I defer to anyone here that has a simpler solution for ya!
Oh and please do note that depending on connections, and provider, and other oddities, your Stream audio will have a delay from the time you talk to the moment your audience hears you. We usually experience a 15-20 second delay. Once the stream starts you may not be aware of it, but when we have multiple things going on.. like chat and video feed.. even that small delay can make things seem a little weird sometimes.
Oh, one last thing... come on by Seanchai Library in Kitely any Thursday evening and visit with us and listen to our fine storytellers in Live Voice. Bring your friends. Or send people you don't like. Or sneakTP strangers over.. any thing to help us build attendance.. LoL!