Fwd: [AG-TECH] How to configure VRM of PIG? (Re: USB camera with PIG (AG 1.1))

Tue Apr 22 13:29:56 CDT 2003

Found this on MS website:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndevice/html/vfwmap.asp

Provides info about mapping VFW to WDM

MYK

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>Kazuyuki,
>
>I just solved a problem with VRM and video-config with the help of folks 
>both at Argonne and here at NCSA.
>
>To discover what should be written in the video-config file, start your 
>pig the normal way and get into a venue.  You should at least get one 
>instance of vic from the DRM.  click the "Menu" button to open the 
>"vic:vic menu" dialog.  Click the "Devices" button to drop down a list of 
>the video devices that vic can see.  You should have an entry for each 
>device listed in your video-config file.  for example in my "Devices" list 
>I have:
>
>Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)
>
>so I put a line in my video-config file like this:
>
><capture_card input="Composite1" number="0" purpose="PRESENTER" 
>device="Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)"/>
>
>This works for my Logitech Quickcam 4000.  If more devices are listed, you 
>should add more lines similar to the above with the "device=" portion 
>matching what you find in the "Devices" list in vic.  The string 
>"Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)" represents the newer media driver 
>architecture.  Some devices do not have proper drivers but will work 
>because the WDM architecture provides for backwards compatibility.  The 
>caveat is that, if you have more than one legacy device, (i.e. "Microsoft 
>WDM Image Capture (Win32)" is listed more than once in vic) then you may 
>not be able to choose between devices and vic may crash if you select the 
>wrong device.  The solution found by Shawn Davis was to download an older 
>set of VFW drivers that vic can see independent of the WDM 
>architecture.  In setting up several machines, I have found that 
>installing drivers for WDM devices first, then installing drivers for VFW 
>seems to work best.
>
>Also, be sure that the hostname is correct in the video-config or the VRM 
>will not correctly parse the video-config file.  For a while I had this in 
>my video-config file:
>
>  <ag_node name="copland">
>   <capture_computer name="copland">
>
>but this did not work.  I found out from Justin Binns(ANL) that this needs 
>to match the result of the Java gethostname function call.  I was able to 
>obtain the proper string by using "ipconfig /all" at a DOS prompt to find 
>the hostname.  I now have:
>
>  <ag_node name="Copland">
>   <capture_computer name="Copland">
>
>Note the capital "C".  Everything works fine now.
>
>I can't guarantee that "ipconfig /all" will give you the proper setting, 
>but hopefully this will lead you in the right direction.
>
>Anyone else have comments, corrections?
>
>Michael Miller
>NCSA
>
>
>
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>>(AG 1.1))
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>>I found a configuration file named video-config in AG 1.2 (PIG).
>>It is dedicated for Osprey capture cards and I could not find a set-up
>>tool for VRM like the setup-config script included in VRM for Linux.
>>
>>How can I write video-config for my USB cameras?
>>Are there any information on how to write it?
>>
>> > From: shudo at computer.org
>> > Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:44:40 +0900 (JST)
>>
>> > I cannot use a USB camera with the VIC (ddvic.exe and vic.exe) which
>> > PIG has on Windows 2000.  But the camera works well with the UCL
>> > version of VIC, which I obtained at the following web site:
>> >
>> >   Videoconferencing Tool
>> >   http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/vic/
>> >
>> > The version of the UCL VIC is 2.8ucl-1.1.3.
>> > The USB camera is Creative WebCam Plus.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>   Kazuyuki Shudo
>>   Grid Technology Research Center
>>   National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
>
>Thanx,
>
>Michael Miller
>System Engineer
>Visualization Technology Support
>Computing and Data Management
>National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>University of Illinois - UC
>
>"If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with 
>clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything 
>desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even 
>more." -Paul Debevec

Thanx,

Michael Miller
System Engineer
Visualization Technology Support
Computing and Data Management
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
University of Illinois - UC

"If you're clear in your vision and trust the people in your team with 
clear objectives, they will invariably do their best to achieve everything 
desired, and usually deliver everything you could have hoped for and even 
more." -Paul Debevec