On 26/05/2007, at 7:57 AM, Andrew Ford wrote: > Thanks Chris, sending DV seems to work fine now. The problem now is > that when I try and receive it (on another machine) the receiving > vic hard freezes (there's the listing for the video with a black > thumbnail, and the window is completely frozen - I have to kill the > process to stop it). I'll attempt to leave the stream sending (to > RIT's AG multicast video address, 224.2.224.225/20002) over the > weekend, so if anyone could try receiving it, that would be awesome.
Andrew, I don't see any multicast traffic on that address - maybe you've stopped sending, or perhaps a highter ttl is needed? chris > On 5/24/07, Christoph Willing <[email protected]> wrote: > On 25/05/2007, at 8:03 AM, Andrew Ford wrote: > > > HI, > > > > I've been testing out the UQ vic with DV, but it can't seem to find > > my camera. It can be seen by my machine (at /dev/dv1394/0), and it > > works (i can cat the stream to a file and play it with mplayer), > > but it is absent from the vic devices list and doing -D /dev/ > > dv1394/0 doesn't seem to do anything (I assume this was what was > > meant by 'manually specifying the camera' in the documentation). I > > have libiec61883-dev and as far as I know I compiled vic with that > > support. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 6.10 (side note - I get a 404 for > > http://www.vislab.uq.edu.au/research/accessgrid/software/advideo/ > > ubuntu.html) > > > Andrew, > > The 404 should be corrected now. > > That page has some timps about access to the /dev/raw1394 device > which is what is needed in this case. > > One other thing is to ensure the correct vic is actually being run - > cd into thye vic directory and run: > ./vic ...... > rather than just > vic ...... > > > chris > > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350 > QCIF Access Grid Manager > University of Queensland > > > > Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
