[AG-TECH] VideoProducerService question

[Eric Olson]

Hi George,

We've had a few problems when transmitting with vic in linux recently and 
we're working on getting an updated vic posted.  I'm not sure if you're 
having the same problem I did, but you can run the following to check:
  vic localhost/12345
then click menu, set the device to x11 (to avoid confusion with camera 
issues), and then click transmit.  If it crashes after a few seconds, then 
it's probably due to a bug in redhat's 2.96 version of gcc.

Here is a version Ti Leggett built with a couple files unoptimized that 
fixed the problem I had:

http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~leggett/AccessGrid-vic-2.8ucl1.1.3-2.i386.rpm

Bob Olson recently built a correctly compiled optimized version for 
testing, but I don't have an rpm for it at the moment.

I'm not sure if I understand the side note you're describing, but in 
linux I have noticed my transmitting vic does not show up on my own 
VideoConsumer's vic, but does show up on another computer connected to the 
venue.

Let us know if the version of vic above fixes your problem, and we'll 
get an optimized one posted soon.

Eric



On Fri, 9 May 2003, George Estes wrote:

> I'm installing 2.0 on a RH 8.0 machine and it was going good
> until....the "Video" vic crashed.
> These are the steps I followed, run VenueClient.py --personalNode - open My
> Node/Manage - select Service Manager/localhost:12000 - select
> Service/Add/VideoProducerService/select resource. Everything opens and
> looks right, but the input default for "Video" vic is composite 1 and I'm
> using S-video. When I switch the input to S-video, vic dies. The I
> realize anything I do to the video vic causes it to die. In fact, the
> VideoProducerService vic will not come up and stay up until I reboot the
> machine.
> Just a side note, even though the VideoProducerService vic is
> transmitting, I never see it in the venue.
> 
> George
> 
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