[AG-TECH] Setting Up Video Services on Windows

[Charles Tassell]

Hi Chris,

  Thanks, that makes sense.  I may take a look at that next week.  I
don't imagine it would take a very powerful machine to run just the
video capture service...  In the meantime, on to tackle audio. :) 
Stupid mis-configured Vortex...

Christoph Willing wrote:
>
> On 17/06/2009, at 8:24 AM, Charles Tassell wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>>  I'm having a bit of an issue with my multi-camera setup on Windows XP
>> with Access Grid 3.1  Basically, I have 4 cameras that work great
>> individually.  But when I join a room, I get 4 video windows popup.  One
>> of them is the lobby of the venue with one of my cameras, and then the 3
>> others will have one of my cameras and sometimes the video feeds of
>> other participents.
>>
>>  Basically, I've got 4 VIC windows running with the feeds spread out
>> between them, and I'd prefer to just have a single VIC window, like with
>> RAT.
>>
>>  Any ideas how to fix this?  I've tried mixing it up with 4 video
>> services, or 4 video producers and 1 video consumer, or just 4 video
>> producers, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.
>
>
> Charles,
>
> You are seeing normal behaviour of vic with multiple video inputs. It
> is one of the reasons why a room node is better off using a separate
> machine for the video capture. Then (out of sight) that separate
> capture machine would run 4 VideoProducerServices, while the display
> machine (where you'd be working from) can then have just a single
> VideoConsumerService (and, of course, the AudioService).
>
> There is at least one alternative using virtual machines. However its
> a bit complicated to set up - an example at:
>     http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/xenag/
> uses Xen on Linux to do this. If you must use Windows then perhaps
> something similar could be done with VMWare?
>
>
> chris
>
>
>
> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
>