"headless" VideoProducerService

[Robert Olson]

cool.

have you thought about how the producer may determine the ssrc of the
video that it is sending and update the venue cloud with that
information?

--bob

On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 17:18, Christopher Cope wrote:
> Hey everybody!!!
> 
> Finally, after working on this WAY TOO LONG, I have a headless video 
> producer script that works and interfaces with ag2 the way it should.
> Tell me if you see any problems.
> 
> headlessVideo.mash creates a video stream defined by the arguments pssed 
> to it. if run with smash, this does not require any sort of display. so it 
> can replace vic as the executable called in VideoProducerService.
> 
> VideoProducerService.py is Tom's script for running and passing AG 
> settings to vic, modified for the headlessVideo.mash script. 
> 
> VideoProducerService.py runs the command "smash headlessVideo.mash <args>"
> 
> smash is essentially the mash executable, except without any sort of gui-X 
> stuff. therefore mash needs to be installed for it to work.
> 
> my directions for doing this are as follows::
> set your CVSROOT to 
> :pserver:anonymous at cvs.openmash.org:/usr/mash/src/repository
> 
> cvs login
> 
> cvs checkout mash-code
> 
> now you will need to copy the desCore library into the mash-code 
> directory.
> 
> build it: ./configure --enable-des --enable-rijndael && make && ./build
> 
> ...
> 
> so this is what you should need to do. but somewhere along the lines a 
> makefile broke or something. im not quite sure and am looking into it. all 
> i know is that it used to build fine, and that smash ran my script 
> properly last night. :-)
> 
> what i do know, is that headlessVideo.mash is fine, and instead of banging 
> my head against the wall over this, i'm going to, as Ivan suggested, 
> work on getting autoplace working for mash-vic right now, and come back to 
> the "why wont mash do what it used to do?" problem in a day. 
> 
> heres the headless video script, and my releasecandidate ;) version of 
> VideoProducerService.py
> 
> i could see a need for better error checking when parsing arguments sent 
> to the script. i tried to have it imitate vic as much as possible. but 
> aside from that, headlessVideo.mash is final.
> 
> VideoProducerService.py might need a change or two once i get mash working 
> properly again. there was not an obvious one-for-one translation between 
> the arguments orginally passed to vic, and the arguments that can be 
> passed to my script. can anyone point me to doc specifying all the user 
> defineable settings, and any y'all desire???
> 
> VideoProducerService.py and VideoProducerService.svc, as you know, are 
> combined into a .zip and then opened by the AG.
> 
> So yeah, heres my stuff, got beef?
> Chris