[AG-TECH] New Fedora Core 2 AGTk CVS snapshot

[Fred Dech]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 11:49AM, Douglas Kosovic said:
> Hi Fred,
> 
> > i have 1 bigger and 1 smaller problem that i don't have a clue how to
> > solve because i don't understand the underlying code At All in, say,
> > AGServiceManager.py.
> >
> > bigger:
> > regardless of how the node services come up (TV or not TV) in my
> > ServiceManager, i still have to set my VideoService VICs from Composite1
> to
> > S-Video every time i change venues.
> 
> It should now be fixed with the new VideoService.py and
> VideoProducerService.py I posted in another email.
>
hi Doug.

thanks.  i'll grab and test sometime today.
 
> > i have a hunch that this error message is related to that...
> > /////////
> > INFO:ServiceManager:Using services dir:
> /home/aguser/.AccessGrid/local_services
> > INFO:ServiceManager:__DiscoverResources
> > config: invalid value for input: (null)
> > valid choices for "input": "Television", "Composite1", "S-Video",
> "Composite3"
> > config: invalid value for input: (null)
> > /////////
> 
> That's just harmless stderr output from /usr/bin/v4lctl. I think I'm going
> to modify Config.py in the
> /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/AccessGrid/Platform/unix directory, so that
> it provides more userfreindly feedback, which includes redirecting the
> stderr of /usr/bin/v4lctl to /dev/null.
>
LOL!  that's about as user-friendly as you can get.
 
> > smaller:
> > same issue as above with VideoProducerServices, plus i cannot see my
> > video streams in the VIC.
> > the obvious solution is to use VideoServices rather than
> VideoProducerServices.
> 
> Do you mean with VideoProducer, the vic video thumbnail is muted (there is a
> mute toggle button next to each of the video thumbnails in vic)? If that's
> what you mean, then that's a feature rather than a bug.
>
i don't believe that it's muted.  i'll check it more thoroughly and get
back to you.

cheers.

--fred