Hi Christoph, Yes, that is a very good point and it may be essential for operation under Linux, but I am erring on the next release of Access Grid Toolkit to resolve my headaches now that I have found some minor success with the card...
Yes, I have been digging through DataPath's SDK and they mention a registry override where resolution can be hardcoded. By setting a 352x288 entry there I have managed to get VIC to correctly display streams from our cameras. There are two drawbacks presently, which I am waiting to hear back about, one being that this potentially limits AGTk from only ever displaying one resolution for all feeds (inc the DVI input) and the second being that for PAL cameras, this does not accommodate non-square pixels so the aspect ratio is wrong. Regards, Adam Horwich -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Willing [mailto:c.will...@uq.edu.au] Sent: 01 March 2010 21:36 To: Horwich, Adam (STFC,RAL,ESC) Cc: atay...@ulm.edu; ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Capture card On 02/03/2010, at 6:15 AM, <adam.horw...@stfc.ac.uk> wrote: > We picked up one of these cards a few weeks ago and it's proving > troublesome with the current version of AGTk with Windows XP. The > only time we've managed to get video out of our PAL cameras via VIC > is by using H261AS at 'large' resolution, but unfortunately that > does not have the correct aspect ratio (and is not something you can > set natively in the video producer service). > > Under Linux (where the drivers are admittedly very early and > primarily aimed at OEMs) VIC fails to output anything but the DVI > input despite allowing you to select an individual BNC port when > configuring your video services. > > I haven't seen what I can produce by manually launching VIC yet, but > then that's not a scenario we would ever rely on for our AG services. Adam, In the AG toolkit, various settings are determined for vic in the VideoService configuration gui. The toolkit then launches vic as if it were being run manually from the command line and adds whatever settings were selected. If you are able to find good settings when running vic manually with this card, then those settings could possibly be incorporated into the AG toolkit's configuration gui or vic launcher. chris > -----Original Message----- > From: ag-tech-boun...@lists.mcs.anl.gov on behalf of Adam Taylor > Sent: Mon 01/03/2010 19:59 > To: ag-t...@lists.mcs.anl.gov > Subject: [AG-TECH] Capture card > > Has anyone out there used this capture card with VIC? > > > > http://www.datapath.co.uk/visionsd4plus1.html > > > > Does it work? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Adam Taylor > > Computing Center > > University of Louisiana Monroe > > > > > > > -- > Scanned by iCritical. Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8316 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland -- Scanned by iCritical.
