[AG-TECH] Re: Compiling VIC in Visual Studio 8 (2005)

[Piers O'Hanlon]

Hi Sam,
> Video images now display locally in both the consumer and producer windows.
>
Good to hear it is working now.

> What should that line of code do? I haven't noticed anything out of the
> ordinary yet...
>
I'm away at the moment so I've not had a chance to look closely at the
code - as far as I recall that code is for controlling XVideo hardware
rendering of video - Which has been working but we've been trying to
tweak it so it correctly detects when XVideo capability is available
(especially when one tries to run VIC on a remot display). We haven;'t
quite got it working right.

I'll take a look at it when I'm back (next week).

Piers.

> Thanks,
> Sam
>
>
>
> Socrates Varakliotis wrote:
> > Hi Sam,
> >
> > I assume you're still building Vic on Windows.
> > Can you comment out line 562 in tcl/ui-main.tcl and rebuild?
> >
> > #$target enable_xv $enable_xv"
> >
> > Let me know what happens then.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > Socrates.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Gundry" <sgundry at vpac.org>
> > To: <Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk>
> > Cc: "Piers O'Hanlon" <p.ohanlon at cs.ucl.ac.uk>; <vic at cs.ucl.ac.uk>;
> > "sumover-dev" <sumover-dev at cs.ucl.ac.uk>; <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:03 PM
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Re: Compiling VIC in Visual Studio 8 (2005)
> >
> >
> >> Hi Andrew,
> >>
> >> I am using multicast.  When I use the already compiled VIC binary (from
> >> the UCL installer), video appears in both VideoConsumerService and
> >> VideoProducerService windows.
> >>
> >> The issue occurs when I use a VIC binary I compiled in Visual Studio 8.0.
> >>
> >> When using the my compiled VIC, neither window has any video, but it is
> >> transmitting correctly since a remote machine, using a standard VIC
> >> binary, can see the video properly.
> >>
> >> I think I've caused bugs in the program when trying to compile VIC in
> >> VS8.0. The following is the debug output:
> >>> [224] [pid/224 +335 c:\sgundry\ucl media tools\common\src\mbus_config.c]
> >>> [224] Closed registry entry...
> >>> --GetMcast: 12fa19ac 890046f8
> >>> --GetMcast: 12fa19ac 890046f8
> >>> [224] vic-2.8ucl1.2.1.SharedVideo: tcl runtime error: vic: _o13: no such
> >>> method (enable_xv)
> >>> [224] stack trace:
> >>> [224] vic: _o13: no such method (enable_xv)
> >>> [224]     while executing
> >>> [224] "$target enable_xv $enable_xv"
> >>> [224]     (procedure "attach_renderer" line 38)
> >>> [224]     invoked from within
> >>> [224] "attach_renderer $src $w $enable_xv"
> >>> [224]     (procedure "attach_window" line 2)
> >>> [224]     invoked from within
> >>> [224] "attach_window $src $stamp.video false "
> >>> [224]     (procedure "build.src" line 11)
> >>> [224]     invoked from within
> >>> [224] "build.src $w $src 1"
> >>> [224]     (procedure "really_activate" line 9)
> >>> [224]     invoked from within
> >>> [224] "really_activate _o10"
> >>> [224]     ("after" script)
> >>> [224] Please mail this error message and, if possible, an explanation
> >>> [224] of what user-action caused it to vic at cs.ucl.ac.uk.
> >>
> >> The error occurs in the "really_activate" procedure, which,  according to
> >> this article https://mediatools.cs.ucl.ac.uk/nets/mmedia/wiki/VicDev, is
> >> responsible for creating the video thumbnail.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Sam
> >>
> >> Andrew A Rowley wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> If you are using unicast, this is the way in which it works.  Only
> >>> one of
> >>> the vic instances can bind to the unicast port, which means that
> >>> sometimes you will see video in the VideoConsumerService window, and
> >>> sometimes in the VideoProducerService window.  It is fairly random as to
> >>> which gets the video.  In any case, the quickbridge process that
> >>> performs
> >>> the bridging will never send anything you send back to you, so you will
> >>> never see your video in the VideoConsumerService window when using
> >>> unicast.  You should see your video in both windows when using
> >>> multicast,
> >>> although this will depend on your networking setup and operating system.
> >>>
> >>> Andrew :)
> >>>
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