[AG-TECH] Two Win2K or WinXP AG setups - anybody done them?

Fri Jan 24 09:53:20 CST 2003

Yes, it can be done, and fairly easily at that.  I've never had a need for
such a setup, and so haven't tested it thoroughly, but from experimenting I
believe it goes like this...

-One the old linux capture machine, install pig.  
-change the /ag/agapps/video-config file to reflect the correct number of
capture cards and desired settings
-change the /ag/agapps/bin/start-PIG.bat file by removing the lines for
starting the event server and display resource manager.  You can tell which
these are by scanning through the (long) argument lists.  This will leave
the audio and video resource managers only.  
-in that same file, find any reference to 'localhost' and replace it with
the IP address of the display machine.  This should give you a heartbeat
when you start pig, assuming your display machine is on.  

Good luck!

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Groves [mailto:randy.groves at boeing.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:36 AM
To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Two Win2K or WinXP AG setups - anybody done them?

Thanks for the replys, folks.  But I may have not been clear on my 
question. I know that I can run all this on one box, but if I have a 
situation where the number of cameras, or displays is greater than the 
number of slots in one box, then I will need to use two machines and split 
the functionality between them, just as in the 'old days'.  With the 
difference being that both of the machines are Windows boxes rather than 
Windows/Linux.

I'd just like to know if anybody's done this, and what they had to change 
on the 'video capture' box to get it to run.

Thanks!

-randy

At 09:44 AM 1/24/2003 -0500, Bob Riddle wrote:
>We're using one machine (okay, two if you count the Gentner!)
>
>A Dell 530 Precision with dual xeon 2.4 ghz with 3 Osprey 100's, and a
>Matrox Parhelia AGP card (which limits us to 3 displays - which is all our 
>AG room has had room for since inception).
>Works just dandy for us.
>
>Milinowicz, Anthony [NCSUS] wrote:
>>
>>Randy,
>>
>>Since the release of AG 1.2, not only have we been able to create a 
>>large
>>node with 2 Windows XP boxes, but we have actually gotten it down to a 
>>single machine, with 3 video captures (osprey cards), with full display 
>>machine capabilities as well.
>>
>>We are using Compaq Evo W8000 machines, which are dual processor (xeon
>>2.4 GHz) with 3 Osprey 100s, onboard Creative Labs SB16 Audio, AGP Matrox 
>>G450 (dual display output), and PCI Matrox G200 (control).
>>
>>Anthony
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Randy Groves
>>To: <mailto:ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
>>Sent: 1/23/2003 8:53 PM
>>Subject: [AG-TECH] Two Win2K or WinXP AG setups - anybody done them?
>>
>>I'm looking at possible configurations for supporting larger rooms, 
>>and wondering if anyone's done a modification of the AG large room 
>>setup that splits the functions across two Windows boxes rather than a
>>Windows/Linux
>>setup.  With all  the peices available on Windows, I'm guessing it's
>>definitely possible, but I can imagine that there are some tweaks to the
>>
>>startup files that would be required to point the second box to the 
>>display machine to coordinate the event management.
>>
>>Anybody done this already?
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>-randy
>
>
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