Accidentally putting 3-D content in a 2D playlist - GDC server

[Marcel Birgelen]

I guess that anything from and to the Cache drive goes entirely through the non-RasPi part of the device. That's also how they "guarantee" their 30 min server-to-server transfer per movie.

Any stuff making a detour through the Pi will certainly be affected by speedbumps if it's an older generation RasPi. In the perfect GDC world, you probably only ingest on the storage server, but then you at least need to have one...

[Barry Floyd]

I'm running GDC SR-1000's as well, upgraded from the SX-2000AR's. If I inadvertently add an ATMOS embedded trailer in my playlists, (we don''t have ATMOS at the drive-in), when I hit "load show for playback", it'll throw up an alert that there is ATMOS content in the playlist that I don't have a license for. I found out if you just leave it in there, it'll just skip that file and move on to the next thing in the playlists.

As far as slow ingest times, we have the Enterprise Storage Plus with the built-in CRU slot, and have not experienced slow ingest times. The majority of our content comes from DCDC, but when we do have the need to ingest from hard drives, it's not crazy slow.

[Mike Blakesley]

Did you select your 3D format on the projector and just run that show as 3D? If you keep the 3D apparatus out of the light path, it should play fine. Then, on the next show, worry about purifying your show with just 2D content.

I didn't do that, because I was out of town and had remoted in to figure out the problem. Since the "result" of the playlist mistake was totally different than what would have happened with the old server, the symptom didn't connect with me at all. I was sure we had a corrupt lens file or something. I had them first reboot the server and then the whole projector, which of course solved nothing. We finally gave everyone passes and an apology.

I'll know better the next time if it happens again -- I even did a "test" playlist with a 3-D trailer in it and tried hitting the 3D setting... sure enough, played just fine. I have not told my manager yet that "one button" could have solved the problem, she will probably punch me out!

[Marcel Birgelen]

I guess the problem here is a bit in the split-brain nature of your IMS. As mentioned in another topic, it uses a RasPi computer for the web interface and control parts and a seperate player part. The player part will probably just slavishly work your playlist, whereas the control part, also due to the lack of any specific cueues, forgets to configure the player part for 3D content playback. So, the player will continue to play the binary 3D content data, as if it was 2D 24fps content, which will end up as some pretty disfunctional content on-screen.

I'd qualify this as a bug or at least a nuisance worth fixing by GDC. It should at least have given off a warning, that there is some unconfigured 3D content in that playlist, just like with the Atmos/immersive sound content.