[AG-TECH] AG 1.1 Release

[Justin Binns]

Thank you very much!  I'll poke around in the java source and see if I
can't get this in place (bad hack or no, if it works... ;-).

Justin

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, White, Derek [NCSUS Non J&J] wrote:

> Justin & folks,
> 
> Thanks for the clues earlier. Here is a work-around to launch OM Vic with
> custom settings (see end for PIG issues):
> 
> In the Vic startup script, you need a user_hook something like:
> 
> VicApplication instproc user_hook {} {
> 	# settings:
> 	$self add_option maxbw 10000000
> 	$self add_option bandwidth 4000000
> 	$self add_option framerate 29
> 	$self add_option quality 100
> 	$self add_option defaultFormat h261
> 	$self add_option inputType NTSC
> 	set device "YOUR DEVICE HERE"
> 	$self add_option defaultDevice $device
> 	$self add_option defaultTTL 15
> 	$self add_option rptName "YOUR NODE NAME HERE"
> 
> 	$self instvar ui_
> 	$ui_ instvar controlMenu_
> 
> 	$controlMenu_ tkvar muteNewSources
> 	set muteNewSources 0
> 
> 	$controlMenu_ build_window
> 	$controlMenu_ invoke_transmit
> 
> 	# Set Quality
> 	$controlMenu_ setq [$self get_option quality]
> 	$controlMenu_ instvar qscale_
> 	$qscale set [$self get_option quality]
> 
> 	# Set fps:
> 	$controlMenu_ set_fps .menu.cb.frame.right.fps.value [$self
> get_option framerate]
> 
> 	# Set bps:
> 	$controlMenu_ set_bps .menu.cb.frame.right.bps.value [$self
> get_option bandwidth]
> }
> 
> Of course you need to use real values for the strings beginning with "YOUR
> "... Someone will need to do further work to get PIG to provide these
> settings to Vic.
> 
>  - Derek
> 
> ps. Yes, this is an ugly hack. We really need to get OM vic to look at the
> specified options at transmit time (maybe in select_format?).
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Binns [mailto:binns at mcs.anl.gov] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 3:11 PM
> To: Heisen, Andrew [NCSUS]
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; White, Derek [NCSUS Non J&J]
> Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] AG 1.1 Release
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 	The two issues below are related, and have to do with how OpenMash
> processes the startup file and options.  As far as I can tell, the OM code
> sets a default, very low level for quality/bandwidth/framerate when the
> encoder is initialized, and doesn't query the TCL variables and reset
> appropriately until the 'Options' dialog is loaded.  So, whatever you put in
> the config is in fact being set as the 'default', it's just that those
> defaults aren't being considered until the Options dialog is opened.  
> I've been poking around a little looking for an answer, but haven't found
> one yet.  We're working on it, but if you find a solution, we'd certainly
> appreciate it if you'd let us know ;-)
> 
> Justin
> 
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Heisen, Andrew [NCSUS] wrote:
> 
> > Hi all, I've got 2 more PIG questions.
> > 
> > We too are unable to set the default quality to anything other than 
> > 10, though we can change other settings through a startup script.  Can 
> > anyone help us with this?
> > 
> > Even more importantly, we're having trouble with OM VIC performance.  
> > When Vic starts up it seems to be throttling it's own bandwidth such 
> > that it can never transmit at more than 2 fps with about a 2-4 sec 
> > delay.  Raising the bandwidth allowed helps slightly but does not 
> > solve the problem.  Oddly, when the "settings" button is pressed, 
> > openning the options dialogue, VIC fully recovers immediately and 
> > begins transmiting at our specified rate of 29 fps and with no delay.  
> > This is without actually altering any of the settings.
> > 
> > If anyone can offer any explanations or suggestions as to how to fix 
> > this, we'd greatly appreciate it.
> > 
> > -Andrew
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas M. Mueller [mailto:thomas.m.mueller at Dartmouth.EDU]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 12:30 PM
> > To: Mary Fritsch
> > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AG 1.1 Release
> > 
> > 
> > i just installed the PIG version of release 1.1 (which is great, by 
> > the
> > way) on our machine.  is anyone available for testing in the test room? 
> > also, a couple questions about the video resource manager.  is there a
> > way to change the default settings for frame rate/bandwidth/quality so i
> > don't have to change them every time i start up the node?  is there a
> > reason the quality setting in vic always starts at 10 no matter how i
> > set it in the video resource manager?
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 17:09, Mary Fritsch wrote:
> > > All,
> > > 
> > > Argonne National Laboratory is pleased to announce an update to the 
> > > Access
> > 
> > > Grid Node Display Machine Software.  This release includes 
> > > preliminary
> > > support for the Personal Interface to the Access Grid and can be found
> by 
> > > clicking the Software Download link from www.accessgrid.org.
> > > 
> > > Please feel free to send mail to ag-mcs at mcs.anl.gov with questions 
> > > or
> > comments.
> > > 
> > > ANL AG Team
> > > 
> > 
> > 
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