[AG-TECH] HD vic on Linux

[Christoph Willing]

On 10/08/2010, at 7:01 AM, Richard Palmer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 	Has anybody done any work on getting the HitlabNZ HD vic working on
> 	Linux using the (proprietary) Linux driver for the Blackmagic
> 	Intensity cards?.
>
> 	Or will the Vislab vic work with the cards?. From the webpage
> 	it only seems to support cameras directly connected to the firewire
> 	port, not one using a HDMI capture card.


Richard,

Neither of these projects is still being actively developed. Perhaps  
more importantly, neither works on all AG supported platforms so is  
unlikely to become widely used.

There is currently a major effort to support the Blackmagic cards  
within the "real" vic code. In fact there's pretty workable support  
already in the svn version. The most recent Slackware and Ubuntu AG  
releases already use that code for vic if you want to play with it.  
but don't want to retrieve and and build from svn yourself. Be aware  
that there is no AG video service yet for this device so, for now,  
you'll have to run the HDMI supporting vic stand alone


chris


Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8316
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland