[AG-TECH] OS X AG questions

Ivan R. Judson judson at mcs.anl.gov
Fri Aug 20 11:11:42 CDT 2004


As part of 2.3 Beta 2 we'll be releasing a OS X package that does *not*
include media tools, please try this when it comes out ;-)

--Ivan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Brian Corrie
> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 10:24 AM
> To: Jerome
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; Todd Zimmerman; Adam Serediuk
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] OS X AG questions
> 
> Hi Jerome,
> 
> Some of the people in our group have found it painful to get 
> everything in place to run the AG software on Mac OS X. 
> Getting Python and wxPython installed, etc. (I am not 100% 
> sure of the details, but what I heard was that it was 
> painful). Did you experience any of this? The way I read your 
> email is that the Python and AG software installs relatively 
> easily and it sound like you are mostly having problems with 
> the media tools.
> 
> Is that true? This has not been our experience thus far - not 
> sure if we are doing something wrong or not...
> 
> Any info you could provide would be helpful...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
> 
> Jerome wrote:
> 
> > so what exactly should work and what doesn't work with AG & OS X?
> > So far I've seen that i can view video streams via openmash 
> vic, can't 
> > transmit unless i use QuickTime broadcaster (although there may be 
> > some possibilities with the beta QuickTime python module) 
> and openmash 
> > vat doesn't seem to know how to decode any audio coming in, 
> rat used 
> > to work on my machine but no longer shows up when running...
> > 
> > also, the VenueClient runs ok, but not in personalNode mode, 
> > AudioService and maybe VideoService get locked up and keep 
> VenueClient 
> > from continueing..
> > 
> > are these known problems or is there ways to solving them and they 
> > just don't work for me?
> > 
> > Seems like theres some that do use AG on OS X so wanted to 
> clarify things.
> >  thanks
> >  --jerome
> 
> 




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