Thanks Chris, sending DV seems to work fine now. The problem now is that when I try and receive it (on another machine) the receiving vic hard freezes (there's the listing for the video with a black thumbnail, and the window is completely frozen - I have to kill the process to stop it). I'll attempt to leave the stream sending (to RIT's AG multicast video address,
<a href="http://224.2.224.225/20002">224.2.224.225/20002</a>) over the weekend, so if anyone could try receiving it, that would be awesome.<br><br>--Andrew<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Christoph Willing</b> <<a href="mailto:willing@vislab.uq.edu.au">willing@vislab.uq.edu.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On 25/05/2007, at 8:03 AM, Andrew Ford wrote:<br><br>> HI,<br>><br>> I've been testing out the UQ vic with DV, but it can't seem to find<br>> my camera. It can be seen by my machine (at /dev/dv1394/0), and it
<br>> works (i can cat the stream to a file and play it with mplayer),<br>> but it is absent from the vic devices list and doing -D /dev/<br>> dv1394/0 doesn't seem to do anything (I assume this was what was<br>
> meant by 'manually specifying the camera' in the documentation). I<br>> have libiec61883-dev and as far as I know I compiled vic with that<br>> support. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (side note - I get a 404 for
<br>> <a href="http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/advideo/">http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/advideo/</a><br>> ubuntu.html)<br><br><br>Andrew,<br><br>The 404 should be corrected now.
<br><br>That page has some timps about access to the /dev/raw1394 device<br>which is what is needed in this case.<br><br>One other thing is to ensure the correct vic is actually being run -<br>cd into thye vic directory and run:
<br> ./vic ......<br>rather than just<br> vic ......<br><br><br>chris<br><br><br>Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350<br>QCIF Access Grid Manager<br>University of Queensland<br><br><br><br>
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