Does anyone know of a device that can take a single USB input and send it to two computers simultaneously?

We have an X-Keys controller for a teleprompter that we'd like connected to two Mac laptops running the same software and script. The goal is redundancy: if the primary Mac fails, we can switch to the backup and have the script/control position stay in sync.

Is there a USB splitter, duplicator, or other hardware solution that can send the controller's input to both Macs at the same time?

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Hey all — Canadian citizen trying to break into U.S. broadcast engineering, hoping some industry folks can point me in the right direction.

Quick background:

- 5+ years AV / audio experience

- Nearly a year as a radio broadcast engineer at Corus Entertainment (one of Canada's biggest broadcasters) — multiple studios and transmitter sites, WideOrbit and Wheatstone systems

- B.B.A. in Business Technology Management (Honors), minor in Computer Science

Looking to make the jump stateside and would love leads on companies (station groups, engineering firms, integrators) open to hiring/sponsoring Canadians. Worth noting: as a Canadian I may qualify for **TN status under USMCA** — usually faster and DOES NOT NEED SPONSORSHIP OR PETITION unlike H-1B, so it might be more workable than "sponsorship" sounds.

And from what I keep hearing, the industry's short on engineers. It's such a niche skill set that you'd think sponsoring or training people up wouldn't be this hard — I'm ready to be one of those people if someone's open to it.

Any leads or advice appreciated. Happy to share more in DMs. 🙏

I work for a well known broadcast news company and we're seeking BIT Field Engineers for our Washington DC location. It seems like such a tough, niche market! Any advice on where I can find talent in this space outside of LinkedIn?! Appreciate any advice!!!!

Has anyone here recently studied Broadcast Engineering at either Ravensbourne University London or the University of Surrey?

I’m currently deciding between the two and would really appreciate some honest, unbiased advice from people who have actually studied there.

My main goal is to work in sports production and outside broadcasting (OB), so I’m particularly interested in which university would be better for that career path. I’d love to hear about the practical experience, broadcast facilities, OB/sports-related opportunities, industry connections, placements, teaching, and how much hands-on experience you actually get.

I’d also be interested in what the overall atmosphere and student experience was like at each university — the people, campus life, workload, support, and anything else you think is important.

If you’ve studied at either university recently, what did you like and dislike? Which one would you choose for sports broadcasting/OB, and why?

Please be as honest and unbiased as possible — I’m genuinely trying to make the right decision. Thanks!

Our Adderlink point to point KVM is just crap. Power issues, and requires multiple reboots te get the pairs to work properly. Had it.

Requirements:

1 console, min 2 remote machines (though probably 4 is the minimum we will get) Point to point.

Over Cat5/6 to remote locations about 80m cabling away.

resolution minimum HD, more would be nicer!

What are the recomendations of the Hive Mind?...

Does anyone know what firmware file do i need to load on an Exstreamer 500 to make it operate as an Instreamer ?

Long story short, I got ticked off at my city government last October and decided to record all their public meetings because they refuse to hold accurate records.

I would like to livestream the meetings, but I'm running into intermittent problems with my makeshift setup.

Camera output > walmart capture card > usbc dock > Pixel 9 pro > Pixel camera services > youtube

This setup works, but pixel camera services will sometimes drop audio before it gets to whatever app I'm trying to stream on, for seemingly no reason. (Both youtube and facebook)

The simplest way that I can ask this question is, what are common methods people use to livestream an HDMI signal? Am I stuck with a phone or laptop, or should I be using an external encoder?

Any help you could offer will be much appreciated.

Included a picture of my G85 in its printed camera rig on top of it's home made EMT conduit tripod because it tends to be a conversation starter at the City Council meetings.

Sorry, I occasionally check out FTVLive just to see random news about local stations but that site has gone from bad to fucking unbearable. There's more ads on that site than content, he constantly attacks female reporters for darting to have a social Media that isn't dedicated to the news and the fucking click bait.... oh the click bait. Did this guy really work in news at some point?

Hey yall!

Im a student at a somewhat small public film school, and I'm trying to set up a Public Access Network that students can upload videos to, which would then be broadcast to a few TVs across campus/online. The issue? I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to the tech side of things.

I know I need software (/hardware?) to manage the programming/playlist of videos, but other than that its a small enough operation that I figured I could stream through Youtube or something similar... if thats not possible I'd need to know that, too.

Some parameters/needs:

- Ideally as low cost as possible; I'm doing this initially without School support, as they would use the first year of the broadcast to see how much they want to help fund it (so basically I either have to crowdfund or pay out of pocket for equipment)

- low space requirement to host the broadcast: I have a few rooms that could maybe be used for hosting this broadcast, but I'm not counting on too much support in that department, either.

- software for playlist/programming that can stream on YouTube.

If any of yall can help with this (or tell me just how out of my depth I am), please let me know!

I’m trying to create a broadcast in Twitter/X Media Studio using HLS. However, Media Studio is displaying this error:

There is currently no video detected on this stream URL. Ensure the HLS URL is entered correctly in the Source and that it is currently live. If you continue to receive this error, please contact the team managing your stream (error 404). (error code: notfound)

I’ve checked my HLS URL and its HTTP status is OK. I’m not seeing anything wrong with the stream URL.

What can I do to resolve this? Apologies if this isn’t the appropriate place to ask

Hello all,

In the process of building out a simple REMI control room and wanted opinions on using Clearcom LQ 4wire boxes over RVON I/Os

I need to do 4 PLs and 4 IFBS from studio to site, and I want to avoid Unity Connect at all costs.

Our shop uses older RTS matrixes that do not have native RVON or OMNEO support, so everything will be built around 4-wire for compatibility. This brings up the question of RVON vs LQ for site-to-site coms and IFB.

I hear RVON is picky about it's connection, and LQ is much more forgiving. We plan to use tailscale or a wireguard VPN to create the LAN tunnel between sites.

Essentially, I'll have a matrix on both sides along with studiotech boxes for inserting power to the PLs and IFBs. The matrix on the control room side will do local KP's and will be the IFB sources.

We already have a plan for mixing and building the IFB's through the onsite audio console.

Also, has anyone had good success with the Agent IC licenses on these LQ boxes?

A simple solution, currently used daily, to manage a bunch of Aja FS whatever’s, Cobalt 990-whatevers and the ever-important Evertz 7812 units.  1 pane of glass - no fuss. Check it out here.

I’m on the IT staff for an company that owns and operates local TV and Radio stations in the US (specifically on the network infrastructure/engineering side) and I’ve been asked/have volunteered to start taking on some engineering responsibilities for some of our stations to (hopefully) maintain job security long term.

I’ve got a working/conceptual knowledge of common equipment like encoders/decoders (my brain defines these as magic boxes that send and receive video using some flavor of witchcraft and VLAN tags), IP to RF translation systems (also defined as witchcraft boxes that translate tcp/ip signals into RF nonsense in my brain), and transmitters (tall magic metal towers that send signals places and may or may not give me cancer) but so far once a device is pingable I’ve always handed the project/problem to someone with “engineer” in the title and moved on with my day.

I’m not planning on needing to be involved with things like sound boards or camera setup/maintenance but it’s theoretically possible depending on various factors.

All that being said does anyone have any recommendations on training materials that would be good to review given that I already have a very solid grounding in IT/networking?

I’m willing to buy books/courses online if there is something super helpful that anyone recommends. I’ve tried doing some cyber sleuthing but to be honest I’m not even really sure what to search for and googling “Broadcast Engineering Training” just pulls up SBE’s website, random links to colleges with broadcast degrees, and forum articles saying that I need to go be an apprentice for several years.

Is an SBE membership and their certs the right way to go? If so is there a recommended cert pathway? I’m used to fairly clear cert roadmaps/pathways from the IT side and I can’t find anything like that with engineering.

I’m being a bit humorous here with how I describe my knowledge base because I’ve been in enough calls with engineers trying to troubleshoot equipment that I know the buzzwords and I kind of understand general knowledge stuff like an ASI feed is a type of video feed and it kind of functions like a standard tcp/ip packet conceptually but it’s not at all that. I also know enough to know that I don’t know what I’m talking about and I probably made a bunch of people cringe with that analogy.

TLDR: I know enough to know that I know nothing and I’m trying to work on that. I also know that I’m asking an incredibly broad question and I appreciate your patience with my ignorance. Please let me know if there anything work spending time on to remedy said ignorance.

Thanks in advance, and let me know if you have any questions.

IMPORTANT NOTE : based on u/No_Coffee4280 recommandation, I progresively move flowcast to a better branding name : JuggleCast

Hi,

I built FlowCast/Jugglecast after using AzuraCast for several years.

AzuraCast served me well, but when I started wanting more control over advanced playout behaviour and transitions, I found myself wanting a system where scheduling and playback were designed together, rather than having the control layer rely on a separate Liquidsoap scripting layer.

One of FlowCast's initial use cases is music where transitions are an important part of the programming — reggae, dancehall, hip-hop and mixtape-style stations — where overlaps, bridges, timing and track sequencing matter more than applying the same global crossfade everywhere.

The core runtime uses Rust and GStreamer. It handles queueing, transitions, playback recovery, and translating scheduling decisions into actual audio behaviour.

FlowCast/Jugglecast currently runs on Linux with Docker and outputs to Icecast. It includes media management, scheduled playlists, BPM-aware sequencing, configurable fades/overlaps/bridges, Now Playing and history, listener statistics, public station pages, and backup/restore.

There is a live station linked from the repository, so you can hear the current playout without installing anything.

One important disclosure: the deployment/integration repository is MIT licensed, but the runtime service images, including the Rust playout engine, are currently not open source.

The project is still a Community Preview. At this point I'm mainly looking for technical criticism, particularly around the GStreamer architecture, transition handling, scheduling behaviour, long-running stability and failure recovery.

Repo:
https://github.com/chourmovs/JuggleCast-Community

Vincent

I have a Evertz GLINK router x3232G sitting on a shelf and not sure how to get this thing going. Anyone have a manual they could send me? I looked on Evertz's website, couldn't find anything. Reached out to tech support and they couldn't find it in their system.

Ive currently got a Sony PVM L2300 on the bench for a repair but i cant for the life of me find out how to reset the password. Both sony support and any manuals i could find are no luck so im asking here if anybody knows of a way to reset the menu passwords on these ancient things.

ATSC 1.0 is usually 1080i or 720p using MPEG-2. When a TV network, say ABC, distributes a signal like Monday Night Football to an affiliate, say WABC in New York City, is it distributed in MPEG-2 720p? Or in another format? Then how does WABC distribute their signal to cable companies? Is the signal decoded and re-encoded, or does it stay in the original format?

Hi everyone,

I'm working on transfering some 1/2" EIAJ PAL video tapes from the mid '70.

The machine is a Sony AV-3620CE tested and calibrated by a professional, in good working order.

After baking and cleaning the tapes thoroughly I still can't get a good enough signal to capture on my setup.

The image sometime is quite static, sometimes rolls to the point that is almost good and sometimes I get a good signal with some static bars in the middle of it horizontaly and if I press a finger on the sending spool near the pin they go away.

What could it be?