techrec/README.md
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TechRec
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A Python2 web application that assist radio speakers in recording their shows.
At the moment, it relies on some details that are specific of our radio (like
the directory/format of the continous recording).
It is however quite simple to change that specific portion of code, as it is
modular and all in `forge.py`
Features
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* The interface is extremely simple to use
* You can have nested recording (ie: to record an interview inside of a whole
show)
* There is no user system: any user opening the website will see the complete
status of the applications. There is, also, nothing stored in cookie or
similar mechanisms. This means that recording a session does not require a
browser to remain open, or any kind of persistence client-side: server-side
does it all.
* The audio generation has a simple design, so switching from `ffmpeg` to,
say, `vlc` is simple
Implementation details
======================
It is based on bottle, to get a minimal framework. Simple APIs are offered
through it, and the static site uses them.
Jobs are not dispatched using stuff like celery, but with a thin wrapper over
`multiprocessing.Pool`; this is just to keep the installation as simple as
possible.
The encoding part is delegated to `ffmpeg`