Hi Doug, This is getting close. We have been experimenting with a couple of tools that do video display on the Mac. There is a VRVS version of vic that runs on the Mac and can use the iSight camera. VP is a display tool out of the Australian National University and it also runs on the Mac and can handle the display. The VRVS vic is not integrated as a service at the moment but as a tool it works fine. VP is packaged as a NodeService.
Probably most promising is at the last townhall meeting (Tuesday) Eric Olson from Argonne mentioned that they were fairly close to a minor release for AG that would include audio and video services for the Mac based on the OpenMash vic and rat I believe. The only caveat is that the iSight microphone does not work. Hopefully by the end of the month we will see a release of this... We are in the same situation, would love to use the mac as a display machine in a couple of our nodes. Hopefully this will be the solution. Cheers, Brian Douglas Baggett wrote: > Fellow AGers > > I've been "living" in the Mac environment for about a month now to > support some desktop users and I've been pleasantly surprised as to how > well OS X and Mac hardware handles mult-display systems and correctly > detects displays without the hassle that I have to go through on windows > or hacking xorg config files in LINUX. > > Have many of you used or are using OS X systems for Display? With the > release of AG 2.x using a Mac as a display seems like a real possibility. > > thanks for any comments or suggestions! > > -Doug
