thanks, Supreeya. you didn't happen to test whether the display/capture software that comes with the Osprey 230s works with the VFW drivers, did you? x11 on a Win box. how intriguing!
--fred On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:39PM, Supreeya Miller said: > Fred and Derek, > > I'm running XP for the Video machine, which has 3 PCI-x Opsprey 230 cards. > The machine is 64 bit. Here are the tricks I found to get each card to work > properly. This needs to be done one time. Then the successive times will > work beautifully as the previous one. > 1. Use the legacy driver. I read John Q's message on 5/16/2005. The > subject line was "Windows Capture Cards". > 2. Run vic manually (to any address and port) for the number of cards. > Since the default is not-transmit, you will not get stuck with the Windows > binding to one source. > 3. Choose "Configure on Transmit". Amazingly the machine will show that > you have 3 device capture cards (in my case). Then you can set the video > resolution and color mode. I set the resolution to 352x288, so that I will > not have the gray frame around my video. My machine also shown that I had > the fourth source, which was x11....go figure. > 4. Pick one and click Transmit. > 5. Do the same thing with the rest of the cards. > 6. Terminate all vic programs. > 7. Run the AG program as usual. > 8. Use the "Manage my Node.." to rid of the x11 source. Then save and > set > as default that configuration. > > Since vic remember the last configuration, each one of my 3 vic programs > always picks up each capture device correctly. This has worked well for me > for the pass 5 weeks since the arrival of my 2 new DELL machines. I don't > have to choose capture devices again..not even one time. > > I hope my tricks will work for you guys. Good luck. > > Supreeya Miller > System Administrator, Scientific Visualization Researcher, and Access > Grid Coordinator > The Center of Higher Learning > Building 1103 Room 102 > Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 > Phone: 228-688-2190 > Fax: 228-688-7454 > E-mail: [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On > Behalf Of Fred Dech > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 3:10 PM > To: Derek Piper > Cc: Thomas D. Uram; AG_Tech_List > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] more on multi-input capture. > > > that is unless you get a set of cards or card that still use VFW drivers, > like the older Winnov Videum cards we are currently using. > > --fred > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:54PM, Derek Piper said: > > > > It will happen regardless of the type of capture device, just so > > that's clear. If you have more than one device that captures video, if > it's > > a USB camera or capture card, then you'll have that problem with Windows. > > > > Derek > > > > Fred Dech wrote: > > >hi Derek. > > > > > >i see. that's useful information. the EVERY TIME clause is a real > > >drag, though. in the case i'm thinking about, using linux is not an > > >option. > > > > > >thanks, though. > > > > > >--fred > > > > > >On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 02:15PM, Derek Piper said: > > > > > >> No, I explained how that part works my previous post. Maybe a > > >> diagram would be good. > > >> > > >>VIC -> 'Microsoft WDM Image Capture' -> Source0 > > >>VIC -> 'Microsoft WDM Image Capture' -> Source1 > > >>VIC -> 'Microsoft WDM Image Capture' -> Source2 > > >>VIC -> 'Microsoft WDM Image Capture' -> Source3 > > >> > > >> VIC only binds to 'Microsoft WDM Image Capture', *it doesn't know > > >> about the sources beyond that*. Upon invocation, the WDM driver will > > >> choose the first 'source' it can find, since none was given. This leads > > >>to all four VICs choosing Source0 (probably) and 3 of them will not be > > >>able to get it and will complain by putting up a selector box to choose > > >>another source. So, you go ahead and choose another source, i.e. Source1 > > >>for the first one you have to alter, then Source2 for the other one etc. > > >>All 4 VICs will then be up and running. Unfortunately you will need to > do > > >>this EVERY TIME you change venues. If it drives you crazy, use a Linux > > >>box for video from multiple sources. > > >> > > >> Derek > > >> > > > > -- > > Derek Piper - [email protected] - (812) 856 0111 > > IRI 323, School of Informatics > > Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana -- Fred Dech [email protected] University of Chicago Dept. of Surgery Ph: (773) 834-8359, Fax: (773) 834-8140
