[AG-TECH] "waiting for video" with unicast

[Monika Rabarison]

Thanks Chris. My problem is that I don't get any incoming streams at all.
I'll keep trying.

Thanks to all,

Monika


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Osland, CD (Chris) wrote:

> Monika
> 
> By 'pick up' I just mean that (as someone else said in reply to
> you) the incoming streams are seen as thumbnails in the 'outgoing'
> (i.e. producer) vic windows, but not in the 'receiver' vic window.
> As he says, you need to unmute things.
> 
> Re any corruption of the streams, we're run a twin 248 Opteron
> system on two machines and twin 2.8 Xeons on another, which may be
> why we don't see it - or haven't seen it so far.
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> Chris
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Monika Rabarison [mailto:monika.k.rabarison at ccaix.jsums.edu]
> > Sent: 16 February 2005 17:14
> > To: Osland, CD (Chris)
> > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov; Hill, NM (Nick)
> > Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] "waiting for video" with unicast
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Osland, CD (Chris) wrote:
> > 
> > > We found a similar problem, but then found that the incoming
> > > video was attached to a randomly chosen 'outgoing' vic; between
> > > all the vic's that were started, we could pick up
> > 
> > Chris,
> > 
> > what do you mean by *pick up*?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Monika
> > 
> >  all incoming
> > > and outgoing streams.  If I've got this wrong, Nick Hill should
> > > be able to correct me.
> > > 
> > > Inelegant, but it works!
> > > 
> > > Cheers
> > > 
> > > Chris
> > > 
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> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov]On
> > > Behalf Of Monika Rabarison
> > > Sent: 16 February 2005 15:22
> > > To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > > Subject: [AG-TECH] "waiting for video" with unicast
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > Could someone help with the following issue? 
> > > 
> > > Multicast is working fine. The problem is when switching to 
> > > unicast using 
> > > any bridge. I have tested with a Room Node and a Personal Node (XP). 
> > > No problem with rat. On the Room Node, vic is "waiting for 
> > > video" on the Display machine (XP) and shows only the local video 
> > > streams on the Video Capture machine(FC2). On the Personal 
> > > Node, vic shows 
> > > only the local video stream. No video transmission or 
> > > reception between 
> > > the Room Node and the Personal Node. 
> > > When I run vic manually, I'm having the same problem.
> > > 
> > > A remote site using unicast confirmed receiving audio and video 
> > > from us though.
> > > 
> > > You may wonder why I need to switch to unicast if multicast 
> > > is working. 
> > > We have sessions with a site that has to use unicast due to multicast 
> > > issues. For some reason, when I use multicast,the audio from 
> > > that site is 
> > > breaking out.
> > > 
> > > Any help would be most appreciated.
> > > 
> > > Monika
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