[AG-TECH] HD on AG

[Gurcharan S. Khanna]

All,

I, too, am extremely interested in vic supporting HD formats, (including 
uncompressed!)
One of the issues is the encoding latency problem. Not sure there's a 
nice low latency
software encoding solution out there yet. Alternatively, we might look 
at cheap hardware
encoders as the answer or HDMI cards to take the input from the camera. 
Can vic be made
to take the output of, say, the BlackMagic Design HDMI card on a Mac?

I am currently using AGDV under windows but would like to move to linux 
and use the
HDV/DV linux vic for the DV part; i don't think it's encoding the HDV, 
just accepting
it as input from the camera already encoded??? [chris?]

My ideal would be to encode the presenter's laptop output and deliver 
that as just another
video stream along side the presenter's video and the audience video and 
have autoplace
lay them out nicely in a framed window, a la Adobe Connect or similar 
products, so the
presenter, the slides, and additional commentary could be nicely 
recorded for later video
on demand playback.

Just my opinion (and need),

-gurcharan

Piers O'Hanlon wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> In principle VIC should be able encode and decode HD video - using one
> of the codecs that support such resolutions e.g. H.264 or h261as.
>
> One needs to modify some of the configuration code in VIC to allow
> selection of larger resolutions (ie HD one needs something from 720p
> (1024x720) upwards). And of course an HD source is necessary. We don't
> currently have access to any HD kit so haven't had a chance to work on
> it but anyone is welcome to try!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Piers
>
> 2008/10/22 Vine, Derek A <Derek.Vine at usd.edu>:
>   
>> Hello all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am doing some research to spec. up a new AG room, and the group with the
>> money is interested in HD video.  I see that The University of Queensland
>> has an HDV/DV VIC for Linux based systems already, but we would like to stay
>> with Windows.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was just wondering what kind of time frame I can give them as to when HD
>> will be supported in AG on Windows.  In particular, an HD VIC that will take
>> its video from a capture card with an HD-SDI input, like the one attached in
>> the PDF.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help.
>>
>>
>>
>> Derek Vine
>>
>> Communication Network Specialist
>>
>> The University of South Dakota
>>
>> 414 East Clark Street
>>
>> Vermillion, SD 57069
>>
>> (605) 677-8215
>>
>> dvine at usd.edu
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     


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