OSX 2.3 Beta with media tools - A problem

[Eric Olson]

Tcl/tk
The version of tcl/tk could be important for openmash vic to work.  I 
built it with version 8.4.9.  Hopefully that will allow your mouseclicks 
bring focus to the main window.  Tom also noticed that clicking on the 
Device button when you have the VideoConsumer service (instead of 
VideoService or VideoProducerService) started will cause it to crash.  
This is because we're setting the recvOnly flag -- I'll remove the setting 
of that option for the final release.

wxPython
The version of wxPython (2.5.1.5) is important for the 2.3 release of the 
AG.  Although I don't think that should affect media tools at all, it's 
likely the reason you saw the VenueClient acting strangely.

Python
You shouldn't need to remove Python itself unless you installed a new 
version manually.  I would think (hope?) that more recent versions of 
python would also work, but I haven't tested them.

Audio devices
  From looking at the rat code, the built-in audio device is the only 
device that will work at the moment, so using other microphones is not yet 
an option.  I had the same problem trying to get unpowered microphones to 
work with the G5 and wish they would have been supported.  Using the 
line-out from another computer worked as an input for me.

Eric


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Brian Corrie wrote:

> Hi Eric,
> 
> We are running OSX 10.3.7 (pretty well the latest of everthing) on a 
> dual processor G5.
> 
> We did have python and tcl/tk already installed so we just installed 
> wxPythin and AGTK. I am not a Mac person, is there an easy way to 
> determine exactly what versions of pyhton and tcl/tk we are running. 
> That may be the problem...
> 
> I ran a tclsh but all it told me that it was running 8.4, not the minor 
> revision. Same with Python, it says it is 2.3, but not necessarily 
> exactly the same 2.3 that you specified???
> 
> Maybe I should remove and reinstall all the packages...
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> Eric Olson wrote:
> 
> > Brian,
> > Can you specify which hardware and which OS version you're running on?
> > I'll look for some more machines around here and see if I can reproduce 
> > the problems you're seeing.
> > 
> > Eric
> > 
> > On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Brian Corrie wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>Some further information. When I run vic from the command line it works 
> >>fine except it does not allow me to get control of the window after it 
> >>starts. I get the following error message:
> >>
> >>SetFrontProcess failed,-606
> >>
> >>I also found a device that has line-level audio input. It works fine in 
> >>the Preferences sound control but I get no input through rat...
> >>
> >>Any pointers?
> >>
> >>Brian
> >>
> >>
> >>Brian Corrie wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hello all,
> >>>
> >>>Installed this yesterday. Everything went well, with only one problem.
> >>>
> >>>When I start the VideoService the vic GUI behaves very strangely. Vic 
> >>>starts up as expected, but it appears that I can never get focus on the 
> >>>application to move any of the windows around. Oddly enough, I can click 
> >>>on the thumbnails to open up the video feeds but the window with the 
> >>>thumbnails and the individual windows with video feeds can not be moved 
> >>>around on the screen.
> >>>
> >>>Has anyone else expereinced this problem???
> >>>
> >>>I also had one question. What are people using for microphones on the 
> >>>macs? As far as I can tell the 1/8 mini plug on the mac is a line-level 
> >>>input, and therefore a normal mic will not work. At least it doesn't on 
> >>>the macs that I have tried this on. Going into the sound preferences I 
> >>>get no input levels from the mic input. Even if it was at line level I 
> >>>would have thought I would have seen something... The audio from the 
> >>>iSight works fine for other apps so it isn't a fundamental sound problem...
> >>>
> >>>Any pointers? Haven't spent too much time on this one yet, but wanted 
> >>>some feedback from others. Are you using USB headsets?
> >>>
> >>>Brian
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Eric Olson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Here's an update to the osx package with minor changes.
> >>>>
> >>>>http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/releases/2.3/macosx/AGTk-2.3b-beta2.dmg.gz 
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>Changes:
> >>>>A terminal now pops up when you start a VenueServer or ServiceManager 
> >>>>so you can stop them more easily.
> >>>>
> >>>>Tom's globus patch is built in (the fix for most hanging server issues).
> >>>>
> >>>>The vnc shared app client application path was corrected.
> >>>>
> >>>>Eric
> >>
> >>
> 
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