Re: [AG-TECH] Vic Source issue - Multiple Producers

["Douglas Kosovic" <douglask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Forgot to mention the RHEL/CentOS 5 AG RPMs mentioned below have 
dependencies on the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) RPM 
repository. See the following for EPEL5 setup instructions:
 http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL


Doug

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Kosovic" <douglask@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'ag-tech'" <ag-tech@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Vic Source issue - Multiple Producers


> Hi Todd,
>
> > Wondering if anyone else is having an issue with the latest vic
> > (vic-2.8ucl1.3.0-0.1.20070816svn.fc7)  We are running RHEL 5, but will 
> > test soon on F7.
>
> You could try the vic-2.8ucl1.3.0-0.1.20070816svn.el5 RPM instead. I built 
> some i386 RHEL5/CentOS5 AG RPMs a few days ago:
>  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/centos/
> or the symlink:
>  http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/accessgrid3/rhel/
>
> > We have a machine with 3 capture cards - and when we enter a venue, all 
> > three vic's properly launch
> > with all the proper settings (device/port); however, they 2 of them show 
> > up sending blue screen.
> > When I open the vic options of one of the blue screen vics, I just have 
> > to select Port and reselect
> > the port again (composite 1) and the video reappears.  As I mentioned, 
> > the port is properly set -
> > and I don't unset it to something else before setting it again.  I just 
> > click onto the already set
> > 'composite 1' setting and it appears.
> >
> > I also see this behavior when I manually start three vic's.  Each vic 
> > that is started kills the
> > output (blue screens) of all the previously launched vics.
>
> 'dmesg' might give some indication of what's going on.
>
> On RHEL5, try installing a kernel-2.6.22 RPM from Fedora Core6 updates and 
> see if you get the same symptoms with the V4L that comes with the newer 
> kernel.
>
>
> Doug