Media Broadcaster

Description

a Rasperry Pi-based appliance that broadcasts video or audio via DILC servers.

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Materials

A. Audio Streaming

  * Raspberry Pi (Model B)

  * SD Card with installed Raspbian "Wheezy" OS (Operating System)

         

  * USB Sound Card

  * Audio Computer Microphone

  * USB Micro Cable with Power Brick (5 Volts, 2 Amperes)

  * Ethernet Cable 

B. For Programming

  *PC Monitor 
  *USB Keyboard
  *USB Mouse
  *VGA to HDMI Cable or RCA Cable

Procedure

A. Installing and Running the Rasbian Wheezy OS (Operating System)

• Use Win32 Disk Imager to write a boot image to your SD Card.

• Download the Wheezy zip file and extract the file.

• Insert the SD Card into your Raspberry Pi and write the disk image file using the installed win32 Disk Imager.

B. Setting Static IP

C.Programming for the Audio Streaming

After installing and running the OS of your Raspberry Pi, you are now ready to program the audio streaming.

In LX Terminal,

Install PulseAudio and these preference GUI with the command

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sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

sudo apt-get paprefs

sudo reboot

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After the system being rebooted, next thing to do is to edit and add the following lines in the file /etc/pulse/daemon.conf by these command

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sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf

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lines:

resample-method = ffmpeg

default-sample-rate = 44100

alternate-sample-rate = 44100

after these save and exit by Ctrl+o and Ctrl+x

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To make the Raspberry Pi audio server appearing automatically in your "Sound Setting" on every client (PC) and the server (raspberry Pi).

sudo sed -i 's/AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=1/AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0/g' /etc/default/avahi-daemon

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Project Team

• Catherine Bagotsay (developer)
• Dawn Benigno (consultant)
• Dan Villareal (consultant)
• Peter Sy (consultant)

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