[AG-TECH] Access Grid Launch Obstacle

[philip pocock]

hello

we connect fine with vic and rat directly with mac osx to a bridge in 
the uk. we can even send dv video over firewire to other users at that 
bridge.

but...

using the accessgrid launcher software (requiring the cumbersome us 
government certification! why?) we have managed to connect to the 
venue:

https://vv2.mcs.anl.gov:9000/Venues/default

it opens rat and we can listen but our audio doesnt show up in the talk 
level sliding scale

not one but 2! vic windows open:
1- called vic: Venue_Server_Lobby (with zero videos in it, not even our 
own!)
and...
2 - called "Video" (with our ZKM(Video) node showing up but the image 
is grey! whereas with our direct vic connection to the uk, our 
ZKM(Video) shows up and works fine on the same machine not using the 
accessgrid launcher app?)

if we disregard this accessgrid launcher software, requiring us 
government certification and bypassing its slowness and using the open 
source software vic and rat directly from our mac osx (linux-like) 
system, here is the big question:
How can we connect to those listed in the Venue Client window in the 
accessgrid launcher? How do we find or get found by Venues listed with 
the accessgrid, or is the accessrid strictly a us government approval 
system, not open to free accessgrid agents like ours at the moment?

it is not that we wish to bypass any groups, on the contrary, we wich 
to communicate with grid-quality video/audio, but we are currently 
stuck at the point where the accessgrid launcher opens 2 vic window, 
gives us no view of our own video, or any others on the grid, and where 
the rat window opens but does not measure our own sound input?

in the Venus Server Lobby, we are the only participant present. the 
left column lists many lobbies, but when i select one, the 2 current 
vic windows close automatically, as well as the rat window, and the 
open-mash (the open source name for vic) crashes my entire system, not 
always, but sometimes, irregularly!?
this does not happen with the simple non-accessgrid.launcher connection 
system i learned from a wonderful accessgrid client in the uk!

i hope someone can follow this and either tell us how to connect to 
others without using the accessgrid launcher, or how to solve the 
accessgrid launcher for multicast from our fast connection here at zkm.

happy gridding :) philip pocock
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