Hi all,

we rolled out our matterhorn clients to the lecture rooms, just to discover
what we did not think about when testing:

It is rather reproducible, that when we record/capture a lecture, the
capture of the screen will get corrupted, if we switch the input devices AND
those devices deliver different resolutions or need some time to switch
between.

The resulting Screen.mpg will show OK till about 2-3 seconds after switching
to a "bad" device. "Bad" means, if I'm not mistaken, it delivers some
non-standard resolution like for example 1400x1050. Concrete device at hand
is "Elmo L-1ex" visualizer, which creates problems on switching.

And after these 2-3 seconds, the captured file will show "white snow" in the
lower left corner and some big stripes with test colors (white, yellow,
green, red, blue, as seen in http://derpi.tuwien.ac.at/krieger/Screen.mpg)
in the rest of the picture; which I take to be interpreted as "the software
somehow lost track of where the frames are".

Funny thing is, that in the matterhorn media representation (media gallery,
final result after processing on the server), I do see those colors and
white snow, but at the end of the playback the picture will switch back to
some picture of the "past", but no moving.

Since I am no multimedia expert, I can just guess what is happening.

What do you think, and which advices can I follow to reduce this problem,
and have you experienced similar problems ?

Thanks, Andreas

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