[AG-TECH] Super PIG

[aspale1]

John,

Actually the setup is quite cumbersome, and I have recommended to our 
operator that he disable video until he is in the meeting location and 
then enable video. Otherwise, he is going to have to configure the video 
unnecessarily for each room move. The Logitech camera is set to use the 
Microsoft WDM driver, while the Creative webcam installed its own driver 
that is the VFW type.

Both instances of VIC start at a basic level. One of the VIC windows 
requests that you select the camera source. For this instance of VIC that 
maps to the VideoProducerService, I choose the Logitech webcam. For the 
other instance of VIC (running as a VideoService), I manually configure 
things because the Creative Live Ultra webcam seems to have a tendency to 
cause VIC to crash or crash windows if the correct resolution is not set. 
This instance of VIC (when checking the device) knows that Creative should 
be used. So, when I press transmit and configure the webcam, I should see 
the other video streams as well as the Creative webcam video stream. If 
there were a better way to do this, it would be useful to know.

Because the lab does not have multicast, I do not know why the webcam from 
the Logitech webcam does not appear in the other VIC window where the 
Creative webcam appears.

I hope this helps.


Allan

National Center for Data Mining
University of Illinois at Chicago

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 04:33:11PM +0100, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, aspale1 wrote:
> 
> >Hello,
> >
> >I would just like to share with everyone that NCDM-UIC has successfully
> >created a "super" PIG that has 2 webcams and an echo-cancellation
> >microphone for small group AG sessions. I was not sure it was going to
> >work but our sys admin here made the suggestion, and I happily discovered
> >that this configuration worked. Although we are currently using a single
> >display, there seem to be plans in the works to obtain another video
> >display card that will allow for two displays (one for the node operator
> >and one for the local participants). The two cameras really make a
> >difference and do not seem to overpower the Dell Optiplex GX280 Pentium 4,
> >1 GB RAM PC (with hyperthreading enabled). Although have cameras that
> >adjust would be nice, the solution is sufficient for the lab's purposes.
> >
> >The webcams that we are using are a Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 (works
> >perfectly) and the Creative Live Ultra for Notebooks (using the "Configure
> >on Transmit" option in VIC prevents errors since the webcam driver cannot
> >seem to "remember" the correct resolution and minimally makes VIC crash,
> >and, in worse cases, makes Windows XP SP2 crash with a blue screen). The
> >microphone is an echo-cancelling ClearOne AccuMic PC which works very
> >well.
> 
> So how does Vic behave with that setup?  Do you end up seeing one camera in
> one vic, and t'other in t'other?
> 
> jh
> 
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