January 16, 2014
By: Jack D'Ardenne
OIT-ITS recently purchased a Google Chromecast to test with, which unfortunately, we can't use on Duke's network. It turns out that the Google Chromecast requires multicast to be enabled on the network it is connected to. This is NOT something...
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December 30, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
For those that don't know about FFmpeg, it's a project containing a command line suite of tools that allow someone to convert quite literally any piece of media to any other piece of media. It includes an entire library of...
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December 11, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
Airfoil We had an interesting use case come up. A question was posed about being able to listen to multiple audios streams in the same room and be able to select between them. The first thing that popped into my...
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November 8, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Sharon Kaiser from the School of Medicine will give us a tour of the School of Medicine's Teaching and Learning Center in the Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Center. This will also be our holiday gathering and we'll have cookies and beverages. If...
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October 29, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
iSCSI vs CIFS ITS has begun to explore several methods that bring data center speeds closer to the edge. Our goal is to give the advantages of “big data” technologies to media end users that could really use the extra...
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October 24, 2013
By: Chip Bobbert II
A popular appliance at Duke, the Vaddio AV Bridge, has received a recent firmware revision we applied to a few units and tested out today. The unit is an interesting piece that basically grabs various video signals (HDMI, Component, VGA,...
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June 19, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
The AirMedia Presentation Gateway from Crestron was just officially announced at InfoComm last week. It can support up to four simultaneous presenters at the same time and currently works with Windows and OS X, as well as Apple iOS and Android...
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May 15, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
Some Duke AV folks recently met with Crestron's new Regional Education Market Manager, Ryan Berndt. He will be replacing Brian Montini. Ryan will be Duke's Crestron rep from now on. During our meeting with Ryan and Brian we learned of a new...
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February 5, 2013
By: Jack D'Ardenne
A few weeks ago Duke Digital Signage Governance Committee and OIT launched Duke's Digital Signage service. Duke's Digital Signage service is a centrally managed/locally controlled electronic sign and interactive display platform powered by technology from Four Winds Interactive. The service is available...
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