[AG-TECH] AG 3.2 on OSX

[Fred Dech]

Tyler,

i've been running 3.2 beta on my macbook pro for quite a while.
after some software updates a couple of months ago, my
VideoProducerService/VideoConsumerSerice configuration would no longer
show me my USB camera video stream.  rather than checking the logs
and trying to figure out what was going wrong, i opted to try
removing the vid producer and consumer and added a VideoService.
i could see my video stream again.  that's the configuration i'm
still running.  i guess i should have filed a bug report.  sorry, Tom.

if you haven't tried VideoService already, you might wanna give it a go.
it works for me.

--fred


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:14PM, John I. Quebedeaux, Jr wrote:
> Multicast or unicast? I¹m assuming you¹re running 10.5.6 (soon to be 10.5.7)
> on the MBP....
> 
> Check if the camera light came on, just because you don¹t see the vic window
> with anything in it at all doesn¹t mean it¹s not transmitting because of a
> problem with the vic showing up properly... Which is a known problem I
> believe.... You doing just videoservice? Or videoconsumer and videoproducer?
> I tend to prefer videoconsumer and videoproducer...
> 
> You may not see your outgoing video, easiest way to check that is to bring
> up another AG session on another machine and check if your video is actually
> getting out and back to the other node. I do this all the time to test
> multicast ­ put one machine on multicast with a source, then put another
> machine on unicast ­ pick a bridge and see if multicast is working from my
> source to that bridge. It¹s a easy way to check out without trying to figure
> out beacons and such and you don¹t even have to ask anyone if your video is
> getting out.
> 
> Hope that helps... wonder if it¹s been fixed but not repackaged for the Mac
> yet... Also, .. You said the RAT is working fine? I doubt that, run audio
> for... 15 minutes... Between the mac and another node and see what
> happens...
> 
> -John Q. 
> -- 
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> 
> From: "tyler.heaton" <tyler.heaton at uleth.ca>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:38:54 -0600
> To: <ag-tech at lists.mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: [AG-TECH] AG 3.2 on OSX
> 
> I have installed AG 3.2 on my MacBook Pro. The venue server and RAT are
> working fine, but I am not able to get the Video services to work. Does
> anyone have experience working with AG on Mac and using built in USB
> cameras?
> -- 
> Tyler Heaton, Educational Technology Specialist
> CRDC, University of Lethbridge
> Office: (403) 380.1856
> Cell: (403) 359-4041
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