Hey Thanks Guys,
I was trying to figure this one out myself. I do programming for our Education Channel 96 on Charter.
We use an Apple Xserve & 6TB XRAID along with some software from Bug.Tv to playback a mix of Annenberg and Locally produced programs. The shows we do are edited with Final Cut 6 and moved to the server RAID for AIR.
I was getting a bunch of Ad Council stuff on 3/4″ Tape for ingest. And then I noticed that they had some spots in mpeg format for download. It seemed like a good way do get better quality copies and quicker acquisition for us. I have been fighting with the Muxed Mpeg2 file format for a about month until I stumbled across this thread.
Hey Wade — What software are you using for playout?
Kim