"headless" VideoProducerService

[Christopher Cope]

no i havent. this is a very simple script, as you can tell from the very 
basic parameters that is uses. however, information such as rtpName can 
easily be added. something along the lines of

set vpipe_ rtpName "chris cope"

should work. the ActiveSource mash class could be incorporated to keep 
track of / update all the ssrc stuff. i have an idea of how the 
ActiveSource class works, but am not entirely sure (which is porbably why 
its taken me so long to get the autoplacement working :) )

chris

On 5 Aug 2003, Robert Olson wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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