[AG-TECH] Injecting DVD or avi/mpeg4 videos into an AG session

[Natalia Costas]

Tough it is not integrated, we use VLC sometimes to recast videostreams 
or streaming to the AG nodes. It is a little bit tricky as you need to 
bridge it manually if any site dont have multicast support (it is not 
our case so far).


Jason Bell escribió:

>G'day all
>
>I had a personal email asking how I inject a DVD or avi/mpeg4 videos
>into an AG session.  I thought my reply might interest a few, so I
>thought I would also send my reply to the AG mailing lists as well.
>
>I have the ability to inject DVD/Multimedia streams into the Access Grid
>by:
>
>*	Using an Audio/Video switcher which connects the inputs from a
>PC, DVD and Document Camera.
>
>*	The audio output from the AV switcher goes into the genter
>(XAP400) as an input, which I then output to my speakers inside my AG
>and output to the audio node of the AG, which then transmits to external
>sites.
>
>*	The video output I connect to the capture card within the Video
>Capture Node, as I would any camera.
>
>This allows me to inject AV from a PC, DVD or Document camera into the
>AG as an optional stream.
>
>The only caveat is that we are only using H261 at present, therefore the
>video stream can be a bit ordinary. 
>
>I hope this may be of some use to others.
>
>Cheers,
>Jason.
>
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>
>Jason Bell, B.I.T.
>B. Info. Tech. (Honours) Student
>
>Network Engineer
>Information Technology Division
>Central Queensland University
>
>High Performance Computing Support Officer
>Central Queensland University
>
>Research Assistant to the Nonlinear
>Intelligent Systems Research Group 
>Faculty of Informatics & Communication
>Central Queensland University
>
>E-mail : j.bell at cqu.edu.au
>Phone : 07 4930 9229
>
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>
>Patience is a virtue.
>
>But if I wanted Patience,
>I would have become a Doctor.
>
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>
>
>  
>


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Natalia Costas Lago
Técnico de Comunicaciones - Dpto. de Comunicaciones

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