Fabrizio, the ViaVideo is a self sustained H.323 Videosystem and CANNOT be used as a camera, use any AG compatible webcam from "choosable devices". Ulli
[email protected] wrote: > > Hi Sam, > Unfortunately I already tried VRVS with no luck, as I got the same > behaviour: I cannot select my "Polycom ViaVideo II" as camera of my > personal node, as it doesn't appear on the list of the choosable > devices: the only one I get is "Microsoft WDM", which crashes when > using the Polycom camera. > Any other suggestion? > Thanx, > Faber B. > > > > Sam Liston <[email protected]> scritti il 02/02/2006 17.45.13 > > > Hi Fabrizio, > > Your problem, I believe, is that the viavideo2 camera uses h.323 video > > codec while standard vic uses h.261. You may want to try VRVS, > which, I > > think supports h.323. > > Sam > > > > Samuel T. Liston <[email protected]> > > ----------------------------------------- > > Systems Administrator - Visualization > > ----------------------------------------- > > Univ. of Utah > > Center for High Performance Computing > > 155 S. 1452 E. Room 405 > > Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 > > 801.232.6932 > > > > > > > > > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > I'm wondering about the possibility to configure and use a "Polycom > > > ViaVideo II" as VideoProducer Service of a Node, running on a Windows > > > XP SP1 machine. I connected it to my PC, but when I start the "Manage > > > my node" utility there's no chance to see it in the list of the > usable > > > videocamera devices: I just can see the "Microsoft WDM Image Capture > > > (Win32)" option, which I usually used when I previously connected a > > > "Phillip Toucam" instead of the ViaVideo. > > > I also tried to connect the AG client to the standard server lobby > > > with the Viavideo switched on, but vic.exe crashes reporting the > > > following error boxes: "capDriverConnect: dev=0 failed - 0", then > > > "capGetDriverCaps: failed - 0", finally "capGetVideoFormat: failed - > > > 0", then ends asking if I am willing to report the error to Microsoft. > > > The ViaVideo is correctly installed and working, as I can use it with > > > the "Polycom PVX" conference software, but I have no clue on how to > > > configure it in order to allow to the "Node Manager" and the "AG > > > client" to set and use it. > > > Any suggestion please? > > > Thank you in advance, > > > Faber > > -- Dr. Ulrich Schwenn Head of Multimedia and Videoconferencing Group Computing Center Garching Max-Planck-Gesellschaft & Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik Boltzmannstr. 2, D-85748 Garching GERMANY Phone: +49 89 3299 1371 H.323: +49 89 3299 6004 Fax: +49 89 3299 1301 e-mail: [email protected] web: http://www.rzg.mpg.de
