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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=100121023-21042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Andrew,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=100121023-21042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I have come across this before. Are you using the extended
video producer for windows? If you are then it doesn't work with PAL cameras
(which UK, Australia and NZ etc use).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=100121023-21042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>In regards to the UQ vislab DV / HDV services, under my
ubuntu box I had a similar problem until I installed a fairly up-to-date NVidia
Graphics card and drivers. (I am currently using an 8800
card).</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=100121023-21042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Hope this helps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=100121023-21042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Regards,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=100121023-21042008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Nathan</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov
[mailto:owner-ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Andrew
Rowley<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, 21 April 2008 10:32 p.m.<BR><B>To:</B> Andrew
Ford; Douglas Kosovic<BR><B>Cc:</B> ag-tech<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [AG-TECH] Any
more H.264 news?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hi,<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have tried firewire
capture on windows and get similar results – I just get a kind of set of lines
(see attached image).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have a feeling that
this is due to vic assuming that the camera source is a standard size (e.g.
352x288) when it isn’t. It looks like it is picking up an image from the
camera (it changes when I move around in front of the camera) but it is only
using some of that image (I think).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This was using a Sony
MiniDV camera.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Andrew
:)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma">From:</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma"> owner-ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov
[mailto:owner-ag-tech@mcs.anl.gov] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf
Of </SPAN></B>Andrew Ford<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B>
18 April 2008 21:21<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Douglas
Kosovic<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Cc:</SPAN></B> ag-tech<BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [AG-TECH] Any more H.264
news?</SPAN></FONT><SPAN lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Douglas Kosovic <<A
href="mailto:douglask@itee.uq.edu.au">douglask@itee.uq.edu.au</A>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">UQ Vislab vic doesn't do any transcoding from DV (or
HDV) firewire devices to other codecs, so if the codebase was merged as it
stands now, it wouldn't do what you are trying to do
anyway.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Well, doing raw DV without transcoding would be fine
(if it were on both platforms), since we can spare the bandwidth - that's what
we're already doing via the ExtendedVideo services on Windows, but we'd like to
be able to move on to something more
cross-platform.<BR> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Have you tried using DV4Linux so that your Camcorder
can be seen as a V4L device? I haven't tried it
myself.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Interesting, I'll have to try that out.
Would vic theoretically be able to transmit 640 (or 720)x480 video from a V4L
device?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">As for the flashing verticle line artifacts on
Windows, I don't seem them, but I was using a quad-core 2.6GHz
Xeon.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>We've seen it here on a couple of different systems
- a Dell w/ a dual-core + hyperthreading 3.46Ghz CPU, and Suns with 2x dual-core
2.2Ghz Opterons - so I doubt it's CPU-related. Can anyone else chime in if
they've tried the firewire capture on
Windows?<BR><BR>--Andrew<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>