[AG-TECH] AccessGrid For NetBSD

[Pritesh Shah]

hi all,

Let me introduce myself to you all. My name is Pritesh Shah and I'm
currently working for New Mexico IDeA Network of Biomedical Research
Excellence (NM-INBRE), located at New Mexico State University, USA.
Perhaps for more than three to four months i've been trying to build
an AccessGrid Package for NetBSD OS. I've been in constant touch with
Christoph Willing and he's been a source of great help and inspiration
to me. ( www.ap-accessgrid.org/AG2/freebsd5.html ).

With Christoph's help i was able to make considerable progress, and i
think from no-where i reached a stage where i can say "i'm not far
away". I have the gpt package, the globus-data-management-client
package, and the accessgrid package ready. I'm used to using the term
package since NetBSD OS uses the packaging system (like freebsd's
ports, or linux's rpms). All the necessary changes needed to make it
work for NetBSD were made ( believe me guys it was not easy, woofffff
!!). These packages are made such that if you want to install the
accessgrid package, it pulls all the required dependencies and
installs properly to the respective locations.

After all the packages were ready i tested them by entering the
default lobby. I had some problems to get the rat and vic that came
with accessgrid to work properly. This was expected as it looked like
these rat and vic executables are
for linux or some other os. But these were replaced by some updated
native rat and vic executables. And now when i enter a lobby both rat
and vic windows show up. i tested rat and it is able to both transfer
and recieve audio feeds,

This is where i need your help guys, vic recieves the video fine. But
the real problem
is, when i want to transmit video through vic

I have four capture cards (bt878) recognized as follows:

....
....
bktr0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0
bktr0: interrupting at irq 11
bktr0: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, <no> tuner.
Brooktree Bt878 Video Capture (Audio Section) (miscellaneous
multimedia, revision 0x11) at pci0 dev 8 function 1 not configured
bktr1 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
bktr1: interrupting at irq 11
bktr1: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, <no> tuner.
Brooktree Bt878 Video Capture (Audio Section) (miscellaneous
multimedia, revision 0x11) at pci0 dev 9 function 1 not configured
bktr2 at pci0 dev 10 function 0
bktr2: interrupting at irq 11
bktr2: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, <no> tuner.
Brooktree Bt878 Video Capture (Audio Section) (miscellaneous
multimedia, revision 0x11) at pci0 dev 10 function 1 not configured
bktr3 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
bktr3: interrupting at irq 5
bktr3: Hauppauge WinCast/TV, <no> tuner.
Brooktree Bt878 Video Capture (Audio Section) (miscellaneous
multimedia, revision 0x11) at pci0 dev 11 function 1 not configured
....
....

i'm trying to run vic directly from command line. 
vic recognizes these cards. (vic > menu > device). And when i
select the correct card from which to transmit, it shows up an image
with lot of interlaced lines, and nothing except these lines.
i have a Sony DSP Color CCTV Camera ( Hi-Res, Ex-View) (PC165C)
attached to one of the RCA ports. the pixel specs for the camera are:

Effective Pixels NTSC        811(H) x 508(V)
                       Pal           795(H) x 596(V)

I was wondering whether i need to get a new camera, with any
particulars which have been tested to work with linux or freebsd systems ??
i'm also trying to dig into the code for the vic's bktr grabber
(grabber-meteor.cc).
I was also wondering if  any of you had vic woking with any of the BrookTree
Video Capture Cards and if so what camera were you using, and if there were
any special changes that were made to the code for getting it up and
working. i hope you all will help me out.

Cheers
Pritesh.