Aaron Parecki

🔴 Live Q&A! Answering your questions about livestreaming gear!

September 21, 2025

Questions

(5:30) Q: I could only find videos from 2020/2021 where you discuss the mapping app you use during the stream countdown. The "I'm From" app is no more, are you still using the one on your github? Thanks!

(6:20) hello from Larnaca, Cyprus

(8:11) What up from Belfast, Ireland!

(8:12) Just picked up a RØDEcaster Video yesterday, watched all your videos on it last night.

(8:24) I am looking forward to the server tour, if you are doing that today

(11:34) I feel another device sale coming on

(11:56) Q: When we connected to the Atem Extreme (not on) to HDMI input 1 and 2 from the bidirectional converters that was on, a fan on extreme would spin-up. But when unplugging just one input

(12:08) Q: the fan would quit. It wouldn’t matter which input you unplugged. Is this normal?

(12:44) Q:yes

(12:53) Great help, thanks, helped me get my head around the conceptual changes from the ATEM mini.

(12:58) I would really like the scenes in the RCV to include an option to choose what outputs from the HDMI ports. Plenty of times at conferences I need to playback video to projectors between talks etc.

(13:50) Hey Aaron! do you know of any open source software that I could host on my raspberry pi that could ingest HEVC video via SRT? thanks in advance!

(15:04) Q: I have also seen in the past where the BiDirectional Converter would bleed power especially if you use a PD adapter to power it. Strange but possible.

(15:14) Where does the solar fit into that?

(16:04) Q Seen many new names over the past couple of months. How long has it been since you showed ppl how to search your livestreams?

(18:30) Thanks for the Companion suggestion, I’ll look in to that. Does Companion only work over IP, or would it address the RCV over USB?

(18:50) Q: How powerful of a POE switch is really needed for one Tail 2 and 2 Tail Airs? My switch is 65 watts and I still had random cameras turning black while streaming.

(21:26) Do you think the yololiv yolobox box ultra is a good idea? or extreme

(22:40) Q: Did Rode ever fix the lack of XML metadata that accompanies ISO file recordings on the RodeCaster Video?

(22:55) On wired and wireless my rcv times out in 30 seconds since the update

(23:10) Q: Can you explain how your countdown timer works? The countdown clock itself. Is it a rendered timer running into your switcher? DSK? USK? Hyperdeck? OBS? Rendered ProRes 10min timer is over 1gb.😬

(26:10)

(26:25) It’s seems like XML output of cuts on RCV would be low hanging fruit, but then what type of XML should they create? Would a Resolve XML work with FCP, or Premiere?

(26:39) Also I’ve no idea what the relationship is like between Rode and Blackmagic now that Rode have started playing in BM’s sandpit.

(27:06) Why are people talking about XML? EDL files aren't XML, right?!

(30:10) Q Would any of those webpage graphics work without an internet connection? Say you're recording and live switching a presentation or podcast in a location without internet.

(31:19) Q Aaron did you check Open Media Transport? Open source equivalant to NDI. Search for omt . video for the link. I really believe this is valueable for the community (3rd try)

(31:42) Q: Speaking of web graphics, have you tested the web graphics in the OSEE GoStream Duet 8?

(33:36) Are you using the Duet or the Duet 8 ISO?

(37:06) New idea: An arm clamped to the shelf with a magnetic plate to attach the iPad to.

(37:45) Q: Do web browser sources work in the media player of the standard Duet as well?

(38:45) Is the black chat BG more transparent than on the ATEM?

(39:49) I like this web world and I run 4 servers just for the davinci resolve audio group. will be fine if you bring it to public

(39:57) So a dedicate server in a it centre is not a real problem.

(40:00) a main thing, because the Blackmagic cloud is just to much expensive and I would not like to waste much time in their cloud

(40:24) The bang for the buck on the OSEE switchers are really high

(40:26) ATEM KEY

(40:31) The bang for the buck on the OSEE switchers are really high

(41:04) i want to see the temp chart again from the server room!

(44:30) I do like Black Magic cloud for editing Resolve. For what you get it is pretty cheap and works great when working with an editor.

(44:55) there are no German or Romanian subtitles in yours stream so I have to review yours answer later... my English is just 10 words not more

(46:09) I would if you could create an AI bot that would watch the stream and translate it real time.

(49:09) Q:Wow you need to tidy up Aaron 🤣

(49:35) Q:Audio sometimes cutting out

(49:45) ☠ TEST IT. UNPLUG! ha ha

(50:08) every streamer's off camera setup looks just as messy

(50:12) Q:New stream: Help me replug my server room :)

(50:26) How about tagging and Label too?

(50:32) Live on the Edgfe

(51:54) It's working!!!

(52:25) Q:Is there still a UPS connected to this ?

(53:02) I haven't seen a plug pull LIVE in a long, long time. 👍

(53:19) Q: is that a lithium backup? Do you discharge it every so often to maintain battery health?

(53:51) Q: Interesting that the switch delay does not mess up your power for computers, etc.

(54:18) Last "emergency test" was back in like 2022.

(54:23) I feel like APC should be worried.

(54:27) Q:What is the model?

(55:00) Is that new UNAS Pro 4 disk unit I see?

(55:34) impressive that it is 120 minutes with everything that is plugged into it

(55:41) But these big batteries don't tell the servers to power down, right?

(56:15) It’s pretty speedy. Honestly would rather have good old lead acid UPS. Cheaper to swap out the battery at a local supply store every 3 years

(56:33) Q:Servers next to a water heater, I remember this discussion from years ago.

(56:49) That's what a lot of people use NUT (Network UPS Tools) for

(56:59) It has not been a power outage for 15 years here, but it should be used for precautions. It was a nice device DJI. I like it.

(57:53) Yeah I was going to say I use NUT on my Unraid to tell the other servers to shut down.

(57:57) I was able to get NUT setup. And I "think" it's working as intended.

(58:05) Q: atem software control v10 is out and it changes the settings window for shadow bus but all greyed out on my 2 M/E Constellation. Also on your 4 M/E?

(59:34) Frequent brownouts killed my EcoFlow. Since it died, there's been one outage over the last 2 years.

(1:00:07) But I want to do a power plug pull and see how it survives.

(1:03:45) I have unfortunately done the pull the plug test several times this summer with the massive dust storms, monsoons, and lightning storms in Arizona

(1:03:59) I haven't heard synology was locking it down to their brand drives. That is a huge mistake on their part.

(1:04:04) The synology computer backup and recover was amazing when I reinstall Windows and had 700 gigs restored within a few hours.

(1:04:13) Q: Do you think OSEE could have a market for a simple web graphics device? It would basically be competing with a Raspberry Pi unless it had SDI key/fill

(1:05:46) Can you have a cold drive that auto-configures if there is a drive failure?

(1:07:37) Make sure your backups are on different devices (not just different folders on the SAME device).

(1:08:10) does the Unas provide software that will backup/restore computers on the network?

(1:09:01) Q:I want to take the HDMI output of the camera, convert it to an NDI stream via a device, and send it to a video switch on a wireless network. Is there a device that can do this? What about zowiebox?

(1:11:02) since you are backing up to your Synology, the Synology Active Backup is fantastic for keeping multiple versions of files and restoring an older version if needed.

(1:11:32) I wish Magewell would update the ProConverts to support the newer NDI formats... Zowiebox does support NDI and various flavors of NDI compression

(1:11:45) Weird that BMD does yet make such a converter.

(1:13:42) Wow, that Magewell is over a thousand bucks

(1:13:49) I had one of those!

(1:14:01) Princess phone?

(1:14:27) Australia

(1:14:35) Blackmagic makes a lots of mistakes in my mind... they should put out the audio they did try to integrate. AND FAIRLIGHT USE AS STANDALLONE.

(1:15:08) In the college dorms (early 80s), we only had rotary phones…

(1:17:32) Hub yes, dumb hub. It's like a giant splitter.

(1:17:38) POTS service is still 300-3000Hz frequency range?

(1:18:41) With a little programming you could generate the "control tones" like the Phone phreaking of yesteryear

(1:19:28) Q: Then there were those Coax cable networks with terminators

(1:19:39) Phone= Excellent Idea and great sound!

(1:22:36) I once built a touch tone decoder using an arduino

(1:22:43) I like that 100 Mbps is "Fast Ethernet".

(1:22:49) You can use the tone device to confuse a telemarketer. ‘I have to go, sorry, seems like a crossed line’ 🤣

(1:22:59) How about your hot line project? Leaving voice message for support (remembered when I saw the phone)

(1:24:37) Your demo of the PBX works better than Mark Zuckerberg's demo of the Meta Glasses.

(1:24:42) OBS has a plugin for it, but I know that would be a bit tough to get audio to

(1:25:36) Do you know when is the atem mini extrem gen2 coming?

(1:26:11) You could just fake it... most of us do not read "waveform"

(1:26:27) I find VIBE coding tough as a software dev to get something good from it compared to my non-dev friends output from it.

(1:29:30) But Why Aaron?

(1:29:40) @Razorbaby Media Creation As a Discord member you can find out for yourself.

(1:30:32) Bezier curves are probably needed for the S

(1:30:51) Secret squirrel stuff

(1:31:09) OBS and a PBX interface would be cool.

(1:32:06) What are you doing in Vegas?

(1:33:36) Vegas does have good food and some fantastic shows

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