Software to try: Video Resource Manager

[Tom Coffin]

alan Craig has a software package which archive elists
see cavernus elist for an example - could be useful
acraig at ncsa.uiuc.edu


At 11:12 AM 7/15/99 -0600, Richard Coffey wrote:
   >Everytime you guys send out email, I think, wouldn't it be nice if this
were
   >on a website? If this is, could you please point me in the right
direction? If
   >not, maybe it would serve us well to setup a email archive that was
published
   >on the website...
   >
   >Just a thought,
   >Richard ;-)
   >
   >
   >Robert Olson wrote:
   >
   >> I've packaged up a first cut at some chunks of framework for
configuring &
   >> running the video capture for an AG node.
   >>
   >> It's a pair of Java apps. The first is setup-config. You run it on the
   >> video capture machine (with no vic's running) like this:
   >>
   >>         /usr/local/ag/apps/vrm/setup-config config-file
   >>
   >>  and it probes the machine to see how many video capture cards the
machine
   >> has and what device names they are. It then brings up a GUI with a panel
   >> for each card, on which you can select the input port you wish to use
and
   >> the purpose of the video (presenter/audience/main).
   >>
   >> The test buttons fire up a vic set to transmit with the parameters
you've
   >> chosen. This is so that you can figure out which video is which for
   >> multiple cameras, without tracing cables and figuring out the slot to
   >> capture card device mapping.
   >>
   >> There is also a field for the AG node name.
   >>
   >> When the configuration is as you like it, press the Write Output button.
   >> This will write the configuration to the file you specified on the
command
   >> line. The configuration file contains XML text describing your capture
   >> machine. This is one input to be fed to the resource manager itself.
   >>
   >> The second app is the video resource manager. It reads the XML file
   >> generated above, and generates a GUI with which you can start and
stop the
   >> vic sessions for capture.
   >>
   >> Invocation is:
   >>
   >>         /usr/local/ag/apps/vrm/vrm -c config-file -t ttl address
   >>
   >> For instance,
   >>
   >>         /usr/local/ag/apps/vrm/vrm -c video-config.geode.mcs.anl.gov
-t 127
   >> 224.1.2.3/12000
   >>
   >> You should see a GUI with a pane per card and the address info. You can
   >> start individual captures via the start buttons in the pane, or all
at once
   >> with the start all button.
   >>
   >> Installation:
   >>
   >> These apps require jdk1.2 and a couple XML packages. I've repackaged the
   >> vendor tars as Linux RPMs to ease the installation process. All it
should
   >> take to install the tools is the following script (that can be found at
   >> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/Software/Linux/install-ag-0 )
   >>
   >> #!/bin/sh
   >>
   >> rpm_base=http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/Software/Linux/RPMS
   >>
   >> rpm -i $rpm_base/jdk-1.2-1.i386.rpm
   >> rpm -i $rpm_base/gmd-xql-1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
   >> rpm -i $rpm_base/xml4j-2.0.11-1.i386.rpm
   >> rpm -i $rpm_base/java-getopt-1.0.6-1.i386.rpm
   >> rpm -i $rpm_base/ag-vrm-1.00-1.i386.rpm
   >>
   >> Let me know how this works for you. Keep in mind again that this is
   >> completely untested outside the ANL AG environment, and is very roughly
   >> release engineered (hardcoded paths, etc). It will work on an SGI,
but not
   >> in the RPM form. Source RPMS are available at
   >> http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~olson/AG/Software/Linux/SRPMS/.
   >>
   >> --bob
   >
   >


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