On 09/08/2005, at 12:53 AM, John Hodrien wrote: [snip] > What's the trick to seeing all 3 outputted streams in a single vic? > > Obviously I don't mind running 3 (or 4) vics as I am now, but I'd like > it so > that 1 of them would contain all of the interesting video while the > others > could be minimised.
It used to be the case that after multiple vic instances started up, they would each show all the video streams available at the address they were subscribed to. After some time, the remote video streams would drop off all but one of the vic instances; this would still leave you with 3 vics - one with all remote streams + its own capture stream, the other two with just their own capture streams. While still not ideal, it was at least some mitigation of the problem you describe. Although I say "used to be the case", it may well still be the case. However, it takes some time to settle into that mode; ultimately we found it unsatisfactory and now use single machine nodes only for desktop/laptop (single camera) nodes, never room (multi camera) nodes. Our recommended room style node consists of two linux machines i.e. a video capture machine with 3 or 4 video producers and a display machine with audio and a single video consumer. A nice addition is a third machine, running as a separate node for doing presentations etc. We use Linux on this machine, but Windows works too. Having a separate presentation machine means that the presenter and operater don't have to fight over who uses the keyboard & mouse. chris Christoph Willing Ph: +61 7 3365 8350 QPSF Access Grid Manager University of Queensland
