[AG-TECH] Mac OSX 10.6

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi John,

Thanks for the feedback, comments below.

> I was able to use your instructions for this with the following
> comments:
> 
> > The assumes the patch file wasn't downloaded to the home dir
> > (i.e ~/), "wasn't" = "was" :-)

Yep.

> The vic loaded into the browser as a page - I was able to resave it as
> a file from the browser window. You might check that, it'll throw some
> users that it wasn't downloaded as a file in both cases - the patch
and the
> vic.

Good point, I've created a AG32beta-patch-vic.dmg.bz2 file that contains
both files and can readily be opened in finder once downloaded:

http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ag3/macosx/10.6/AG32beta-patch-vic.dmg.bz2

> Copying the vic file I found those directories on my OS X machine
under
> /.AccessGrid3/local_services/VideoConsumerService, etc.
> 
> Works. In fact, just off the top of my head - I noticed the new vic
> displays the h261as previews... Just fine! And the producer vic, while
hidden,
> actually shows up. :-)
> 
> After un-hiding the producer vic I was able to play around (on my MBP
-
> 3 year old+ 2.33Ghz model) and send video in h261as in 640x480, then
> crashed it sending mpeg4 video, then h264 video worked... But of
course
> processor intensive.

There is also a minor issue with some of the text labels in VIC being
truncated a bit, possibly related to the new Tcl/Tk 8.5 introduced in
Snow Leopard.


Cheers,
Doug

> > From: Douglas Kosovic <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au>
> > Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:17:28 +1000
> > To: Tyler Heaton <tyler.heaton at uleth.ca>
> > Cc: <ag-tech at lists.mcs.anl.gov>
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Mac OSX 10.6
> >
> > Hi Tyler,
> >
> > Snow Leopard comes with both Python 2.5 and 2.6, so with a bit of
> > modifications I was able to get the Intel AG 3.2 beta to work, here
> > are the steps:
> >
> > After installing Intel AG 3.2 beta, download the following patch
> > file:
> >   http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ag3/macosx/10.6/AG-3.2-beta-patch.txt
> >
> > Then on the command-line:
> >
> >   cd /Applications
> >   sudo patch -p0 < ~/AG-3.2-beta-patch.txt
> >
> > The assumes the patch file wasn't downloaded to the home dir
> > (i.e ~/), change appropriately if downloaded elsewhere.
> >
> > The patch replaces the existing shebang first line with #!
> > /usr/bin/python2.5 and pythonw with pythonw2.5 in a number of files.
> >
> > The VIC that comes with AG 3.2 beta doesn't seem to work. After
> > running the VenueClient at least once, download a newer vic built on
> > Snow Leopard from:
> >  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/ag3/macosx/10.6/vic
> >
> > then copy it to one or more of the following locations:
> >   ~/.Accessgrid3/VideoConsumerService/
> >   ~/.Accessgrid3/VideoService/
> >   ~/.Accessgrid3/VideoProducerService/
> >
> >
> > Doug
> >