Re: [AG-TECH] onboard HD audio with AG 3.0 and MS Vista - Receive Pythonw.exe error

[Dan Copher <dcopher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We are in the process in putting together a demo room featuring HD Video
and Intel HD Audio (7.1 surround THX). I have the PC with the necessary
Intel "audio" chip set and video card (1080p resolution) and
the speaker system (just waiting for the speaker stands now). 
But the issue we've run into is that the demo is also suppose to feature
MS Vista and the AG 3.0 Video conference software and although AG 3.0
installs fine we're getting a pythonw.exe error
when trying to enter a venue - "pythonw.exe has stopped
working - A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows
will close the program and notify you if a solution is
available". So far Windows has not notified notified us of any
solution =-O ... but hopefully someone else among the AG community might
... anyone found a solution for this problem yet ? Apparently were not
the first to have this problem with Vista:
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/ag-tech/2007/02/msg00088.html

I also experienced a problem with Bonjour -
"the OS won't run the Bonjour service due to
permissions" ..but was able to resolve this by installing a
newer version on Bonjour.

Any help on this would be very much appreciated -- thanks -- Dan
Copher


 



At 06:39 PM 4/11/2007, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> HD does stand for High Definition (despite appearances?!) - It's
> referring to Intel new audio architecture:
> http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/hdaudio.htm
>
> I haven't managed to test RAT on an HD audio card as I haven't
> currently got access to one - I'll see if I can find one....
>
> I'm assuming this problem is being seen on Windows - anyone tried HD
> audio on Linux?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Piers
>
> On 11/04/07, Joseph Stone <stone004@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In what appears to be a clever
> > marketing trick, system and soundcard
> > manufacturers have used the moniker "HD" and attached the words
> > High
> > Definition to the letters.
> >
> > It really stands for Half Duplex.  Since rat expects a chip set that
> > can
> > simultaneously send out signals while receiving them, these new devices
> > do
> > not get recognized. The HD devices appear to do some sort of fast
> > switching
> > so that the user hears and speaks apparently at the same time.
> >
> > I'll leave it to UCL folks to correct/add to what I've just
> > said.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> >
> > Joseph Stone
> > Senior Informatics Manager
> > Family Medicine Community Health, Medical School, Univ. of Minnesota
> > Suite 220 Dinnaken
> > 925 Delaware St. SE
> > Minneapolis, MN 55414
> >
> > (612) 624-3192
> > stone004@xxxxxxx

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