Best Broadcasting Software

[john_p_bowen]

Hello all,
I currently have two feeds on the Radio Reference website and I am using the Scan Cast software that Radio Reference recommended I use. However since I have two different feeds I have to have two windows of the program open, and I was wondering if there is an easier way to do this. Such as a program that can handle two feeds in one program and not have to open it twice. Is there such a program?
Thanks for your help,
John

 

[PeterGV]

Not that I'm aware of.

Note that ScannerCast shares much of the code between the two separately running instances (all the audio processing code is located in DLL that are shared between multiple instances of the program).

Peter
K1PGV

 

[john_p_bowen]

Not that I'm aware of.

Note that ScannerCast shares much of the code between the two separately running instances (all the audio processing code is located in DLL that are shared between multiple instances of the program).

Peter
K1PGV

Sorry for replaying so late but, what do you mean when you say they share much of the code between the two instances running at the same time.

 

[ETMegabyte]

Sorry for replaying so late but, what do you mean when you say they share much of the code between the two instances running at the same time.

The interface (the part that you see) may be running twice, but a lot of the code itself is only running once. Having two instances of the program running shouldn't be too resource-heavy...

But I do wonder, Peter, if it is possible to give ScannerCast this functionality in one window? There is a checkbox for "stereo input", which up until this moment I assumed was for two feeds into one computer... I'm considering the idea of adding a feed here as well, so I may run into a similar situation...

 

[PeterGV]

The interface (the part that you see) may be running twice, but a lot of the code itself is only running once. Having two instances of the program running shouldn't be too resource-heavy...

Exactly

But I do wonder, Peter, if it is possible to give ScannerCast this functionality in one window? There is a checkbox for "stereo input", which up until this moment I assumed was for two feeds into one computer...

Well, "stereo" gets you different sources on the left channel and the right channel, and tags for only one of those channels. Which I personally think makes for a pretty terrible broadcast, but there are a lot of people who really like it... so who am I to argue

It is entirely possible to, for example, to change ScannerCast to take the left input and sends it to ONE RR stream and take the right channel input and send it to a DIFFERENT RR stream. It's an idea I've had for a long time. The problem is... except for forcing you to make a funny splitter cable and making things like setting the audio levels more difficult... it doesn't really get you much of anything. USB sound cards cost as little as a dollar, and with the back-end audio processing DLLs all shared as they are today, the savings in code/data would be minimal.

Peter
K1PGV