[AG-TECH] macbook pro video (vic) troubles

[Andrew A Rowley]

Hi,

This kind of sounds like a firewall problem.  RAT uses the same port for send and receive and so may poke a return path on the firewall for incoming traffic.  Vic uses different ports for sending from receiving, and so doesn't do this.  The odd thing about this is that it works when you close the video consumer service - I have never known that to work, but maybe it sends out a packet from the receive socket as it closes?

Andrew :)

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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 Matthew Clarkson
> Sent: 06 February 2007 21:34
> To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Cc: kdhewitt at netera.ca
> Subject: [AG-TECH] macbook pro video (vic) troubles
> 
> I'm have 2 of the newer macbook pro's (core 2 duo) which are causing me
> video problems.  These are both being run off a unicast network and
> using a bridge for the connection.
> I can configure the the hardware and software which runs properly
> locally.  However I can't view other peoples video in vic (I
> can hear and see them in rat, but their video does not show up in vic).
> I have tried using a single VideoService like most of my other personal
> nodes, but this only displays the capture source, I have then setup both
> VideoConumerService & VideoProducerService, but the VideoConsumerService
> instance of vic stays blank.  It is only when I remove
> VideoConsumerService from my node that the VideoProducerService displays
> all offsite video streams, which I then have to unmute to view.  This
> setup is, however, not stable and does not work all the time.
> Has anyone else experienced any problems similar to this, and if so, is
> there a solution to it at this time?
> 
> --
> Matthew Clarkson
> Netera Alliance Inc.
>