[AG-TECH] Not finding Firewire DV on UQ advanced vic

[Christoph Willing]

On 26/05/2007, at 7:57 AM, Andrew Ford wrote:

> Thanks Chris, sending DV seems to work fine now. The problem now is  
> that when I try and receive it (on another machine) the receiving  
> vic hard freezes (there's the listing for the video with a black  
> thumbnail, and the window is completely frozen - I have to kill the  
> process to stop it). I'll attempt to leave the stream sending (to  
> RIT's AG multicast video address, 224.2.224.225/20002) over the  
> weekend, so if anyone could try receiving it, that would be awesome.

Andrew,

I don't see any multicast traffic on that address - maybe you've  
stopped sending, or perhaps a highter ttl is needed?


chris


> On 5/24/07, Christoph Willing <willing at vislab.uq.edu.au> wrote:
> On 25/05/2007, at 8:03 AM, Andrew Ford wrote:
>
> > HI,
> >
> > I've been testing out the UQ vic with DV, but it can't seem to find
> > my camera. It can be seen by my machine (at /dev/dv1394/0), and it
> > works (i can cat the stream to a file and play it with mplayer),
> > but it is absent from the vic devices list and doing -D /dev/
> > dv1394/0 doesn't seem to do anything (I assume this was what was
> > meant by 'manually specifying the camera' in the documentation). I
> > have libiec61883-dev and as far as I know I compiled vic with that
> > support. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (side note - I get a 404 for
> > http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/advideo/
> > ubuntu.html)
>
>
> Andrew,
>
> The 404 should be corrected now.
>
> That page has some timps about access to the /dev/raw1394 device
> which is what is needed in this case.
>
> One other thing is to ensure the correct vic is actually being run -
> cd into thye vic directory and run:
>         ./vic ......
> rather than just
>         vic ......
>
>
> chris
>
>
> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8350
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
>
>
>
>

Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8350
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland