[AG-TECH] AG support of Polycomm

[Jennifer Teig von Hoffman]

Hi Jeff,

Sounds to me like a network issue, as there are usually some streams in 
the test room. If you want to be sure, go to the AG Lobby (the default 
venue in the AG2 client; if you don't see anybody there it's almost 
certain that this is a network issue. Chances are good you don't have 
multicast.

Long term advice: Talk to your networking folks about this and have them 
get working multicast to you.

Short term advice: Try "use unicast" from the "preferences" menu in the 
Venue Client (in venues where this is available). Your media tools 
should re-start and you should probably see streams in the test room. 
And give a holler to this list again if you need somebody to meet you in 
a venue to confirm whether or not you're getting all the appropriate 
media streams.

- Jennifer

Jeff Sale wrote:

> Gurcharan,
> 
> Thanks very much.  We appear to have our system up and running, but I'm 
> not sure how best to test it.  I located a "Test Room" in the Virtual 
> Venue but there were no active video streams besides mine.  Any 
> suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> At 11:47 PM 3/19/2004 -0500, Gurcharan S. Khanna wrote:
> 
>> --- You wrote:
>> First, has anyone successfully used a Polycomm ViewStation in an 
>> Access Grid
>> node?  Second, has anyone successfully implemented an AG node with a
>> configuration similar to ours?
>> --- end of quote ---
>>
>> hi,
>>
>> we have been using a Polycom Viewstation as the second camera in our 
>> AG node.
>> we simply take the S-Video out of the Polycom and go into the Osprey 
>> Card. note
>> that one of the s-vid outs on the polycom is the normal polycom out, 
>> with the
>> on screen menuing system, the remote video, etc. the other s-vid out 
>> is simply
>> the pure local video only. it shouldn't matter much what's providing 
>> the s-vid
>> into the node, whether it's a polycom, or a sony or canon ptz cam, 
>> which we
>> also use.
>>
>> -gurcharan
>> ==============================
>> Gurcharan S. Khanna
>> Associate Director
>> Research Computing
>> Dartmouth College
>> tele: 603-646-1644
>> http://research.dartmouth.edu
>> http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gkhanna