[AG-TECH] Vic Source issue - Multiple Producers

[Douglas Kosovic]

Forgot to mention the RHEL/CentOS 5 AG RPMs mentioned below have 
dependencies on the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) RPM 
repository. See the following for EPEL5 setup instructions:
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL


Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Kosovic" <douglask at itee.uq.edu.au>
To: "'ag-tech'" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Vic Source issue - Multiple Producers


> Hi Todd,
>
>> Wondering if anyone else is having an issue with the latest vic
>> (vic-2.8ucl1.3.0-0.1.20070816svn.fc7)  We are running RHEL 5, but will 
>> test soon on F7.
>
> You could try the vic-2.8ucl1.3.0-0.1.20070816svn.el5 RPM instead. I built 
> some i386 RHEL5/CentOS5 AG RPMs a few days ago:
>  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/centos/
> or the symlink:
>  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/rhel/
>
>> We have a machine with 3 capture cards - and when we enter a venue, all 
>> three vic's properly launch
>> with all the proper settings (device/port); however, they 2 of them show 
>> up sending blue screen.
>> When I open the vic options of one of the blue screen vics, I just have 
>> to select Port and reselect
>> the port again (composite 1) and the video reappears.  As I mentioned, 
>> the port is properly set -
>> and I don't unset it to something else before setting it again.  I just 
>> click onto the already set
>> 'composite 1' setting and it appears.
>>
>> I also see this behavior when I manually start three vic's.  Each vic 
>> that is started kills the
>> output (blue screens) of all the previously launched vics.
>
> 'dmesg' might give some indication of what's going on.
>
> On RHEL5, try installing a kernel-2.6.22 RPM from Fedora Core6 updates and 
> see if you get the same symptoms with the V4L that comes with the newer 
> kernel.
>
>
> Doug
>