[AG-TECH] New Fedora Core 2 AGTk CVS snapshot

[Fred Dech]

hi Doug.

this is a very interesting and promising upgrade of VideoServer.py 
VideoProducerService.py, on the other hand, is still languishing on my system.

on one hand, your new VideoService.py breaks your previous patch's correct
loading of the 'port' field in the [serviceconfig] for VideoService.
'same with VideoProducerService.  The Venue Client comes up with a Service
Manger where those fields are, again, defaulting to 'Television'.

more importantly in my opionion, however, once those configurations are
changed in the Configuration GUI for those services, the changes are
transmitted correctly to VIC for VideoService.  VideoProducerService still
comes up defaulting to 'Composite1'.

i think that you're pretty close to a winner.
and you're right.  with VideoProducerService i wasn't turning off the mute of
my video streams.

thanks.

--fred

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:49AM, Douglas Kosovic said:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> > i have 1 bigger and 1 smaller problem that i don't have a clue how to
> > solve because i don't understand the underlying code At All in, say,
> > AGServiceManager.py.
> >
> > bigger:
> > regardless of how the node services come up (TV or not TV) in my
> > ServiceManager, i still have to set my VideoService VICs from Composite1
> to
> > S-Video every time i change venues.
> 
> It should now be fixed with the new VideoService.py and
> VideoProducerService.py I posted in another email.
> 
> > i have a hunch that this error message is related to that...
> > /////////
> > INFO:ServiceManager:Using services dir:
> /home/aguser/.AccessGrid/local_services
> > INFO:ServiceManager:__DiscoverResources
> > config: invalid value for input: (null)
> > valid choices for "input": "Television", "Composite1", "S-Video",
> "Composite3"
> > config: invalid value for input: (null)
> > /////////
> 
> That's just harmless stderr output from /usr/bin/v4lctl. I think I'm going
> to modify Config.py in the
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix directory, so that
> it provides more userfreindly feedback, which includes redirecting the
> stderr of /usr/bin/v4lctl to /dev/null.
> 
> > smaller:
> > same issue as above with VideoProducerServices, plus i cannot see my
> > video streams in the VIC.
> > the obvious solution is to use VideoServices rather than
> VideoProducerServices.
> 
> Do you mean with VideoProducer, the vic video thumbnail is muted (there is a
> mute toggle button next to each of the video thumbnails in vic)? If that's
> what you mean, then that's a feature rather than a bug.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Doug