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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Sorry, ment to say Osprey 450e in that 2nd paragraph.... - John<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>John Quebedeaux <<a href="johnq@lsu.edu">johnq@lsu.edu</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:02:05 -0600<BR>
<B>To: </B>Adam Taylor <<a href="ataylor@ulm.edu">ataylor@ulm.edu</a>>, 'Jonathan Klubek' <<a href="jhklubek@buffalo.edu">jhklubek@buffalo.edu</a>>, <<a href="ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov">ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [AG-TECH] Access Grid Hardware/Software Questions<BR>
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Adam, wasn’t that machine a Dell T5500....? And yes, on Windows XP/Vista/7 the 4th input wouldn’t work on that Osprey 440, but it works just great (all 4 inputs) on a Dell T5400, something changed on that machine... note: my guy Chris noted new (non-beta) drivers on the Osprey 440, maybe we test it again.<BR>
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I understand from someone that the Osprey 440e works OK with the AG toolkit....<BR>
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We too found that the onboard audio worked just fine on our Dells.<BR>
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-John Q.<BR>
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John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.; Louisiana State University<BR>
Computer Manager LBRN; 131 Life Sciences Bldg.<BR>
e-mail: <a href="johnq@lsu.edu">johnq@lsu.edu</a>; web: <a href="http://lbrn.lsu.edu">http://lbrn.lsu.edu</a><BR>
phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>Adam Taylor <<a href="ataylor@ulm.edu">ataylor@ulm.edu</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 09:51:10 -0600 (CST)<BR>
<B>To: </B>'Jonathan Klubek' <<a href="jhklubek@buffalo.edu">jhklubek@buffalo.edu</a>>, <<a href="ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov">ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: [AG-TECH] Access Grid Hardware/Software Questions<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#1F497D">Well, my two cents.<BR>
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We are running a T7500 fully loaded with windows 7 64bit. We run everything on it except for the video capture which we run on an Ubuntu machine. The reason for this is driver issues with most to not all capture cards and windows. We have an Osprey 440 and no matter how hard we tried we could never get the 4th input to work. Under Ubuntu, it works just fine without any tuning, and is as stable as can be. Any machine that is a first gen Core2Duo can run the video capture part without a problem.<BR>
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As far as the sound, we had horrid problems with the Soundblaster X-FI that came with it. We ended up taking it out and just using the onboard audio that comes with the machine. We have not had a single problem since.<BR>
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Thanks,<BR>
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Adam Taylor<BR>
Computing Center<BR>
University of Louisiana Monroe<BR>
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</SPAN></FONT><FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Tahoma, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:10pt'><B>From:</B> <a href="ag-tech-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov">ag-tech-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a> [<a href="mailto:ag-tech-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov">mailto:ag-tech-bounces@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jonathan Klubek<BR>
<B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 25, 2011 8:30 AM<BR>
<B>To:</B> <a href="ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov">ag-tech@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a><BR>
<B>Subject:</B> [AG-TECH] Access Grid Hardware/Software Questions<BR>
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My group at our university was recently tasked by one of our departments to construct an access grid facility (this facility will also function for other types of conferencing and classroom needs also). After much reading we have determined many pieces we need to get including things such as several ClearOne, Crestron and Extron products to control the various audio and video pieces ranging from scaling windows on the projectors and switching sources to mixing and cancelling echo on the microphones on the various tables. The problem we are running into in examining everything is with the access grid machine itself. We have looked at the technology and many of the pieces of hardware are many years old and we are seeing possible issues with integration as things such as PCI are replaced with PCI-e.<BR>
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We are looking at going with a Dell Precision workstation T7500 to be the access grid machine and have thought about adding more memory and a second processor to it (remember that it will serve multiple purposes. . My questions are the following:<BR>
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1. I see that the software is listed for Linux, OS X, and Windows. We most likely will be going with Windows so we can support Microsoft Link also. This software is listed for Windows XP but does it work with Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit. This is extremely important with Windows XP support coming to a close. Also, with the increased resources we plan to use it may be necessary to use 64-bit to take advantage of things such as 4+ GB of memory.<BR>
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2. As mentioned before the technologies listed are out of date. We are especially seeing this with the video capture cards and audio cards. I was wondering if the following would be supported:<BR>
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a. SoundBlaster X-FI XtremeMusic (D)w/Dolby Digital 5.1 (this was the card option on the Dell) – if not is there a newer card than the one listed that is? We will of course need to integrate with our other products.<BR>
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b. Datapath VisionRGB-E1 PCI-e RGB/DVI capture card<BR>
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c. Osprey Osprey-450e PCI-e Analog video capture card<BR>
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If not we are looking for several recommendations of much newer technology that is supported as we see this to be extremely important.<BR>
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Jonathan<BR>
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