hi Doug. i applied your patch to VideoService.py. at first i thought that it changed the character of things; i'd been using videoProducerServices rather than VideoServices. but i've now double and triple checked. i believe you're right when you said: > > Notice the "invalid value for input: (null)" stderr output from > /usr/bin/v4lctl. I think the corresponding V4L2 driver (the bttv driver?) > needs some minor mods in the source code to indicate the inputs that > particular model of Osprey capture card has, currently all the inputs on > that card don't have a name.
before the patch and after the patch, i get the same output: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ INFO:ServiceManager:__DiscoverResources config: invalid value for input: (null) valid choices for "input": "Television", "Composite1", "S-Video", "Composite3" config: invalid value for input: (null) valid choices for "input": "Television", "Composite1", "S-Video", "Composite3" .... INFO:ServiceManager:Service VideoService successfully started INFO:ServiceManager:Setting service configuration INFO:ServiceManager:Assigning resource to service: /dev/video0 INFO:Toolkit:VideoService.SetResource : /dev/video0 INFO:ServiceManager:AGServiceManager.AddService INFO:ServiceManager:AddService: VideoService v 2.210000 u https://sucag1.uchicago.edu:54513/packages/VideoService.zip INFO:ServiceManager:resourceToAssign: /dev/video1 INFO:ServiceManager:Searching for local service package INFO:ServiceManager:Found local service VideoService, v2 INFO:ServiceManager:Running Service; options: /usr/bin/python2 ['/home/aguser/.AccessGrid/local_services/VideoService/VideoService.py', 59926] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ my new Node Service config file has: [service2] packagename = VideoService.zip resource = resource2 serviceconfig = serviceconfig2 [serviceconfig2] encoding = h261 mutesources = Off streamname = Video framerate = 24 standard = NTSC bandwidth = 800 transmitonstartup = On quality = 75 port = S-Video but the VideoSerices instantiated upon startup of VenueClient still default to Television for input. i bet this is some weird driver issue as you implied. using VideoService i still need to swap from Composite1 to S-Video each time i enter a venue. but at least i can see my video. it doesn't show up on the Master VIC, but the two VideService Sub VICs do display it. and other clients can still see me. i'm going to take a closer look at bttv and try and figure out why those error messages are being produced whenever the VenueClient starts up. thanks. --fred
