[AG-TECH] Any more H.264 news?

[Horwich, A (Adam)]

We're running on Windows XP and by performance I mean the CPU hit. We
have a Dual Opteron 248 box and it barely copes rendering our 4 local
cameras. Capture is through a Videum 4400VO and I'm using the latest one
on the Sumover website.

Regards,

Adam.

-----Original Message-----
From: p.ohanlon at gmail.com [mailto:p.ohanlon at gmail.com] On Behalf Of
Piers O'Hanlon
Sent: 29 January 2008 10:03
To: Horwich, A (Adam); Jimmy Miklavcic
Cc: ag-tech
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Any more H.264 news?

Hi,

> I'd like to know more about this too. We've been using the beta H.264
VIC
> client for a while now and it would be nice to know what progress is
being
> made. The only thing I would say is that, well, the performance hit is
> shockingly bad in the current H.264 VIC client. What interests me much
more
> is the MPEG-4 codec also offered. It has roughly a quarter of the load
of
> H.264 with very comparable quality.
>
Which platform (and hardware) are you running it on? When you say it
has bad performance do you mean it takes alot of CPU or it is bad
quality? What's the version number (just the latest one from the
website?

We are trying to put together a 'plugin' type of arrangement so that
it can be dropped into an AG client setup for more straightforward
use.

And Jimmy I haven't seen the Osprey HD card - I'd like to play with
one - presumably it takes input from a consumer grade HD camera?

Piers O'Hanlon


>
>
> We don't currently substitute the VIC tool provided in AG3.1 for the
beta
> version, since it's beta and all. Instead we use the beta version of
VIC and
> MPEG-4 for meetings between our 2 sites when there are problems with
the
> bridges (we're limited to unicast at RAL). Since you can launch VIC
and RAT
> as unicast tools just pointing at the remote site IP, it's something
we run
> off a batch script.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Adam Horwich.
>
>
>
>
>
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
Behalf
> Of Jimmy Miklavcic
>  Sent: 28 January 2008 23:18
>  To: ag-tech
>  Subject: [AG-TECH] Any more H.264 news?
>
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>
>
>
> Has there been any more progress with H.264 and AG 3.1? Also has
anyone seen
> the new Osprey 700 HD?
>
>
>
>
>
> Jimmy
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