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 >
