[AG-TECH] VideoProducerService question

[George Estes]

At 05:52 PM 5/9/2003 -0500, Eric Olson wrote:
>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

Thanks Eric.  The new rpm fixed the vic dying problem.



>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.

   Yes, I'm having the same problem.  I don't see my video windows in 
VideoConsumer's vic, but I do see them on another machine.


>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
> >
> >