[AG-TECH] Osprey 440 Cards, Matrox QID Video Card, Recommended Soundcard

[Derek Piper]

	Yea, I've noticed that under Windows if you have more than one capture 
device (it doesn't matter what devices, single or multi port capture 
cards or a usb camera) then you have problems with vic starting up. 
VIC's config on Windows only binds to the 'Windows MDM capture' device, 
so it's a crapshoot as to who gets what device. Since they all pick the 
same device first, i.e. the first one in the 'list', you get conflicts. 
Under Linux, VIC is bound to a specific '/dev/video' entry, so that 
problem doesn't occur. For future media tools, that is a problem I would 
really like to see fixed for Windows, since it's quite annoying, and 
potentially a stumbling block for having a node that anyone can walk up 
and use.

	Derek

Nathan Gardiner wrote:
> Thanks Derek / Peter for those comments. I'll be testing the Matrox QID
> PCI-e Card in the next few days. I believe it is built for Low Profile
> machines but comes with a bracket to fit ATX cases? We would be looking
> at putting in an ATX case.
> 
> I have tried the Spectra8 Card and it works well under Windows. The only
> problem however is under windows xp, every time I go into a room, 4
> popups come up and I have to select each of the video sources. Not a big
> problem but quite annoying. Is there a way around this? Can this be hard
> coded into the Access Grid to automatically select each of the video
> sources? I know that this problem doesn't happen under Linux.
> 
> Also Winnov Video Quattro Cards are a possiblilty. I have read in
> earlier posts that quite a few people use this. Does it work well under
> Windows XP? 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Nathan
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derek Piper [mailto:dcpiper at indiana.edu] 
> Sent: Tuesday, 21 June 2005 1:28 a.m.
> To: Peter DeSantis
> Cc: Nathan Gardiner; ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Osprey 440 Cards, Matrox QID Video Card,
> Recommended Soundcard
> 
> 
> 	While I've not used the 4-port Osprey, I have used a Spectra8
> which has
> 4 bt878 chips on it. It works very well, just like 4 independent capture
> cards except it's only taking up one slot. I don't know if the Osprey
> has the same chips on it, I know the Osprey 100 we have uses the 878 so
> I could *assume* that it does, but I don't know.
> 	We have a Matrox QID AGP, but we run ours in 'stretched' 2x2
> mode and have had no problems at all.
> 
> 	Derek
> 
> Peter DeSantis wrote:
> 
>>Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 4x DVI / VGA output graphics card We 
>>used this in an AG, only problem we had was that we could not get it
> 
> to work in the indepednent screen mode.  The AG software would leave
> screen corruption trails all over and eventually lock the system.
> 
>>In the stretch screen mode (where you have all screens same res, and
> 
> colour depth) it work fine, no problems that we could find, and good
> performance in my opinion.
> 
>>Why it didnt work in the indepednat screen mode i dont know, my guess
> 
> is the driver was not mature enough, that may have changed by now, but i
> could get no response from matrox (other than "we are not aware of any
> problems with this product").  We didnt have another mainboard to test
> it with, so the problems may have been compatability issues, but im
> leaning to the driver issue myself.  In the end we left it in the AG,
> and will  prob use it in others. 
> 
>>Didnt know there was a 4 channel osprey, gonna check that one out 
>>myself
>>
>>Peter
>>
>>
>>
>> >>  Hi all,
>> >>
>> >>  Just wanting to know if anyone has experimented with or is 
>>currently using  >>  any of these two pieces of hardware under an
> 
> Access Grid session.
> 
>> >>
>> >>  Osprey 440 - 4 Port PCI video capture card (due to be 
>>commercially release  >>  shortly)  >>  Matrox QID PCI-e Video Card - 
>>4x DVI / VGA output graphics card  >>  >>  Also when testing AG 2.3 
>>with standard onboard motherboard soundcards on  >>  pc's, when we 
>>increased the audio quality on RAT using the Linear Codec  >>  up to 
>>44khz that it would generally crash after around 5 minutes. I would  
>>
>>>> say the obvious problem would be the onboard soundcards. Is there 
>>
>>a  >>  recommended soundcard that can successfully maintain high audio
> 
> 
>>streaming  >>  in AG 2.3? I was thinking of something like
> 
> Soundblaster Live or Audigy.
> 
>> >>
>> >>  Thanks so much for any input or suggestions.
>> >>
>> >>  Kind regards,
>>
>> >>  
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>> >>  Nathan Gardiner
>> >>  Human Interface Technology Lab NZ (HIT Lab NZ)  >>  Room 110, Old
> 
> 
>>Maths Building, University of Canterbury  >>  DDI: 364 3072, Cell: 021
> 
> 
>>163 2956, www.hitlabnz.org  >>  
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> 
> 
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> Derek Piper - dcpiper at indiana.edu - (812) 856 0111 IRI 323, School of
> Informatics Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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> 
> 

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IRI 323, School of Informatics
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana