[AG-TECH] h.264 vic

[John I. Quebedeaux, Jr]

Gurcharan,

Regarding the video: the h.264 vic will also receive all the video in the
group it's connected to, i.e. h.261 video as well in the same address group.
And if that group is on a bridge, you get it all as well. Just because
you're sourcing h.264 in that vic doesn't mean it won't receive the h.261 in
the same group (and thus incur the bandwidth for it). That vic supports both
h.261, h.264, etc.

The only thing I can think of is to separate the groups (i.e. Put the h.264
into another group for people to connect to). I only know how to manually
join multiple sources simultaneously (starting multiple vics in the
appropriate groups).

Someone might have some better suggestions...

-John Q.


> From: gurcharan khanna <gskpop at cis.rit.edu>
> Date: Fri, 02 May 2008 12:26:26 -0400
> To: "ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov" <ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: [AG-TECH] h.264 vic
> 
> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to set up the h.264 enabled vic in an AG node in Kosovo for a
> large event tomorrow at RIT.
> 
> there are both audio and video problems but i will just try to fix the video
> for now. when i enable the h.264 service as the only video service at all,
> i get a thumbnail of not only the 264 stream but all the received streams
> from the venue, even though i'm not running any consumer service. and
> the bandwidth that goes along with it, muted or not. i'm bandwidth
> challenged
> in Kosovo, and just want to run the 264 vic only.
> 
> why am i receiving video when i am not running a consumer service?
> 
> can i run the 264 vic standalone from the cmd line? where is it? or how
> do i do that?
> 
> btw, i am using bridging and can send video ok into the bridge but cannot
> receive any video back from the bridge. tried various bridges.
> 
> finally, rat shows signal in the listen window but headphones don't pick
> up any audio. the windows xp system has built in MS RDP audio driver
> but sometimes switches to SoundMax HD, but neither seem to allow
> the headphones to connect to the signal RAT is obviously seeing. not
> an AG issue but maybe someone can give me a clue.
> 
> mainly i need at least the 264 video w/o all the extra bandwidth of received
> videos.
> 
> thanks for any insights,
> 
> -gurcharan
> 
> 
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> 
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