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

[George Estes]

Natalia,

  Could you give a few more details on how you set this up?  Especially the streaming to AG nodes using VLC.

Thanks,
George

At 09:04 AM 6/28/2006 +0200, Natalia Costas wrote:

>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.
>>
>>--------------------------------------------
>>
>>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
>>
>>--------------------------------------------
>>
>>Patience is a virtue.
>>
>>But if I wanted Patience,
>>I would have become a Doctor.
>>
>>--------------------------------------------  
>>
>>
>> 
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