(At least our early version of) the inSORS software came with a feature to allow remote sites to control your cameras. This was very cool and great fun to play with. If people got out of control, you just turned off the allow-remote-control feature and went back to controlling your cameras yourself.
I never saw a "real" meeting case where it led to chaos, though I did not ever use it in a meeting with more than a few inSORS nodes present. I have seen cases where the remote node did not have a node op or local participant with spare time to tweak cameras, so getting them to turn on remote camera control was extremely useful. IMHO, a serial port based camera-controller for evi's and vcc4's would be a very welcome addition to AGTk, either with remote-node control of local cameras or without. --David David McNabb Project Lead, UMAGI UM Access Grid Initiative Office of Information Technology University of Maryland College Park, MD, USA -----Original Message----- From: Richard Naylor <richard.nay...@citylink.co.nz> To: Ulrich Schwenn <schw...@rzg.mpg.de> List-Post: accessgrid-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:18:37 +1300 Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Remore controlled cameras At 07:08 AM 10/28/2004 +0200, Ulrich Schwenn wrote: >Richard, > > do you really mean remote, i.e. any (a) or at least one > (b) participating node should be allowed to control > your camera(s)?. Case (a) would lead to chaos, > because n different people will have n different > views makes n! possibilities, thus (b) will never > assure an optimal position. > Case (b) could be useful, if you can trust > somebody and dont have the time or manpower > do do it on your own site. > If you just mean remote but in your room, this is of > course useful, but then you can use the standard > RS.232 control of your Sony. > If you have an audience, where people might feel > supervised by external remote control it could > become interesting for the unions. > So better keep camera control under your control. Yes chaos = case A, but I wondered if anyone actually tried it. I agree under a restricted access the remote control has many possibilities. rich
