On 09/03/2007, at 3:49 AM, John I Quebedeaux Jr wrote: > Someone asked me about this camera for HD use on the AG: http:// > www.picturephone.com/products/sony_evi_hd1.htm > > Anyone have any experience with it? I'm wondering if it was used, > how to best "capture" it into a system for use on the AG... > interest in using HD is high here. I'm more concerned about > logistical issues with high resolution images on displays that > don't have that much "resolution" space - particularly if several > sites are involved.
John, With regard to screen space logistics, we've developed a version of vic that does DV and HDV - full details and perhaps a demo at the forthcoming AG Retreat. One of the changes is the ability to resize the video window(s) to any size you like. Thus you could accomodate several streams at smaller than true HD size when display space becomes tight. BTW, I think that when DV, HDV, HD are all more common in the AG, best practice will be to always send those formats as duplicates of standard H261 streams so that other sites can choose to view their own preferred mix of H261 and higher resolution formats (somewhat avoiding the screen real estate problem you raised, not to mention bandwidth issues). The cameras we've been testing with have a number of simultaneous outputs available so its trivial to send both DV/HDV and H261 at the same time. chris Christoph Willing +61 7 3365 8350 QCIF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
