• Create tracker project (you can also clone a matching project to have prefilled properties)
• Import schedule.xml
• Set all master tickets from staging to staged via mass-edit
• Adjust project properties, recommendations: (full reference at the bottom of the page)
• Compare project properties with previous instalment of the same event

Replace camp2023 with your chosen tracker project slug.

Meta.Acronym                    camp2023
Meta.Album                      Chaos Communication Camp 2023
Meta.License                    Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Meta.Year                       2023

Processing.Auphonic.Enable      no
Processing.BasePath             /video/
Processing.MasterMe.Enable      yes
Processing.Path.Intros          /video/intros/camp2023
Processing.Path.Outro           /video/intros/camp2023/outro.ts

Publishing.Upload.SkipSlaves    speedy,tweety,blade1,blade2,blade3,blade4
Publishing.UploadTarget         releasing.c3voc.de:/video/encoded/camp2023/
Publishing.Tags                 <additional tags>
Publishing.Voctoweb.Enable      yes
Publishing.Voctoweb.Path        /cdn.media.ccc.de/events/camp2023
Publishing.Voctoweb.Slug        camp2023
Publishing.Voctoweb.Thumbpath   /static.media.ccc.de/conferences/camp2023
Publishing.YouTube.Category     27
Publishing.YouTube.Enable       yes
Publishing.YouTube.Playlists    <meep>
Publishing.YouTube.Privacy      <one of: public, unlisted, private>
Publishing.YouTube.Token        <meep>

Record.Container                TS
Record.EndPadding               300
Record.Slides                   yes
Record.StartPadding             300 

EncodingProfile.IsMaster=no
EncodingProfile.IsMaster=yes
EncodingProfile.IsMaster=
Fahrplan.Room=Servus.at Lab

Please note that the conditions in the “project to worker group” filter are currently always evaluated with logical OR.

Specifying a property with an empty value, which is often done for EncodingProfile.IsMaster, will match if this property does not exist at all on a ticket. So for EncodingProfile.IsMaster, specifying an empty filter will match on recording tickets which never have this property.

During event setup of the pipeline, you have to decide if you want leave the MPEG TS snippets only on the recording cubes or also rsync them to a central storage:

This variant is only practical if you have only one room, or at least one release encoder (aka Minions) for each recording cube. When using this variant with multiple rooms in one Tracker project (like at JEV22), you also have to set room filters in the tracker worker queues.

For every worker:

• set EncodingProfile.IsMaster = yes to avoid encoding all sub formats
• (set room filters in tracker e.g. Fahrplan.Room = Foobar, but this cannot be used at the same times as the above, see the warning below)

For every recoding cube:

• start tracker worker: sudo systemctl start crs-worker.target

For each minion:

• mount filesystems from encoder cube: sudo crs-mount <storage location>
• start tracker scripts for encoding: sudo systemctl start crs-encoding.service

The first variant is typically used for events with more than one room. For bigger events we use the dedicated storage server in the event server rack, for smaller events a USB connected hard drive to one of the minions might be sufficient. Each recording cube exposes the files via rsyncd, which are pulled by an rsync process running inside a screen on the storage pc.

For each encoderX start rsync on the central storage: sudo systemctl start rsync-from-encoder@encoderX.lan.c3voc.de

Then, start tracker workers on storage: sudo systemctl start crs-worker.target (only needed if you don't use storage.lan.c3voc.de - worker scripts get started automatically)

To allow the encoding workers to do their job, they need to mount the storage first: sudo crs-mount <storage location>

After mounting, you can start the tracker encoding workers: sudo systemctl start crs-encoding.service

The minion VMs running inside our event colo case automatically mount storage.lan.c3voc.de via cifs and start their worker scripts. You usually do not need to touch them.

At small events, when the talks are finished for today, you can use the recording cubes to encode master MP4 files.

First: Stop voctocore.

The rest is very similar to above, but with different mounts so /video/capture is not hidden:

sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=voc,password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/fuse /video/fuse
sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=voc,password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/video/intros /video/intros
sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=voc,password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/tmp /video/tmp
sudo mount -t cifs -o uid=voc,password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/encoded /video/encoded

Similar to variant 2, but extended to work with multiple rooms. Instead of using rsync, recorded snippets remain on the encoding cubes and /video/fuse/$event/$room are exposed via samba to the minions, while the encoded and tmp files live on one “central” minion; all other minions mount /video/encoded and /video/tmp from the primary minion [reasoning: the tracker cannot guarantee that the machine which encoded a talk also does the postprocessing (upload) step, so all minions have to see the same files].

Tracker filters have to be set only for the recording cubes, minions do not require any filters (but on smaller events without many minions, a EncodingProfile.IsMaster=yes filter can be a good idea, so sub formats won't crowd out the queues — they can always be encoded off-site later).

On recording cubes: start the followin systemd units:

• crs-recording-scheduler
• crs-mount4cut
• crs-cut-postprocessor

On all minions, including the one acting as storage, do

mkdir -p /video/fuse/$event/{$room1, $room2, ..}
mount.cifs -o uid=voc,password= {//$encoder1.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/$event/$room1
mount.cifs -o uid=voc,password= {//$encoder2.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/$event/$room2
...

On all minions except the one acting as storage, also mount:

mount.cifs -o uid=voc,password= //$storage.lan.c3voc.de/encoded /video/encoded
mount.cifs -o uid=voc,password= //$storage.lan.c3voc.de/tmp /video/tmp
mount.cifs -o uid=voc,password= {//$storage.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/intros

Finally on all minions, including the one acting as storage, start the following systemd units:

• crs-encoding
• crs-postencoding
• crs-postprocessing

optional: configure 10.73.0.2 (aka storage.lan.c3voc.de) on the master minion as secondary ip

on recording cubes, mount or copy the intros from their source – here storage.lan.c3voc.de

sudo mount -t cifs -o password= {//storage.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/intros
sudo systemctl start crs-recording-scheduler  # A
sudo systemctl start crs-mount4cut            # B
sudo systemctl start crs-cut-postprocessor    # C

# check if everything is running as expected – you might have to disable/stop the other CRS workers D-F
sudo systemctl status -n 0 crs-* 

on master minion (in this example storage.lan.c3voc.de)

mkdir -p /video/fuse/jev22/{Ahlam,Bhavani}
mount -t cifs -o password= {//encoder1.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/jev22/Ahlam 
mount -t cifs -o password= {//encoder5.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/jev22/Bhavani

sudo systemctl start crs-encoding             # D-encoding
sudo systemctl start crs-postencoding         # E-postencoding-auphonic
sudo systemctl start crs-postprocessing       # F-postprocessing-upload

# check if everything is running as expected – you might have to disable/stop the other CRS workers A-C
sudo systemctl status -n 0 crs-* 

(ensure that samba is installed on this master minion aka storage)

on other minions

mkdir -p /video/fuse/jev22/{Ahlam,Bhavani}
mount -t cifs -o uid=voc,password= {//encoder1.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/jev22/Ahlam 
mount -t cifs -o uid=voc,password= {//encoder5.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/jev22/Bhavani
mount -t cifs //storage.lan.c3voc.de/encoded /video/encoded
mount -t cifs -o password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/encoded /video/encoded
mount -t cifs -o password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/tmp /video/tmp
mount -t cifs -o password= {//storage.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/intros
 
 

on recording cube, without intros either copy or mount the intros from their source

sudo mount -t cifs -o password= {//storage.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/intros
cd /opt/crs/tools/tracker3.0/
sudo ./start screenrc-pipeline # with steps A, B and C

on master minion (in this example minion5)

mount -t cifs -o password= //encoder5.lan.c3voc.de/video/fuse/podstock2019/Aussenbuehne /video/fuse/podstock2019/Aussenbuehne
mount -t cifs -o password= //encoder6.lan.c3voc.de/video/fuse/podstock2019/Innenbuehne /video/fuse/podstock2019/Innenbuehne
mount -t cifs -o password= //encoder6.lan.c3voc.de/video/intros /video/intros
cd /opt/crs/tools/tracker3.0/
sudo ./start screenrc-pipeline # with steps D, E, F

(ensure that samba is installed on this master minion)

on other minions

mount -t cifs -o password= {//encoder5.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/podstock2019/Aussenbuehne 
mount -t cifs -o password= {//encoder6.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/fuse/podstock2019/Innenbuehne
mount -t cifs //storage.lan.c3voc.de/encoded /video/encoded
mount -t cifs -o password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/encoded /video/encoded
mount -t cifs -o password= //storage.lan.c3voc.de/tmp /video/tmp
mount -t cifs -o password= {//storage.lan.c3voc.de,}/video/intros
cd /opt/crs/tools/tracker3.0/
sudo ./start screenrc-encoding-only # only step E