[AG-TECH] HD vic on Linux

[Douglas Kosovic]

I'll also mention the vic RPM in the Fedora 10, 11, 12 & 13 and
RHEL/CentOS 5 AG yum repositories have BlackMagic Intensity driver
support.

Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ag-tech-bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov [mailto:ag-tech-
> bounces at lists.mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Christoph Willing
> Sent: Tuesday, 10 August 2010 7:48 AM
> To: Richard Palmer
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] HD vic on Linux
> 
> 
> 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