On Mar 10, 2011, at 7:48 AM, Ruediger Rolf wrote:

> Hi Sebastian!
> 
> Am 10.03.2011 14:27, schrieb Sebastian Pichelhofer:
>> 
>> Hi there.
>>  
>> I posted to this mailinglist last December:
>> http://opencast.3480289.n2.nabble.com/Matterhorn-users-epiphan-VGA2PCIe-instead-of-VGA2USB-td5819489.html
>>  
>> Now we got all the hardware together and recently started to install a 
>> Matterhorn Capture Agent and used an Epiphan VGA2PCIe card.
>>  
>> Would you recommend to install trunk or wait for 1.1 or use 1.0 and the 
>> patch Micah Sutton recommended (unfortunately all efforts to get the patch 
>> from him or contact him have failed so far)?
> Go for 1.1! Its nearly finished and a huge improvement. The RC1 is currently 
> in QA and I guess the RC2 will be cut in a few days, because of the minor 
> problems that we found. Use the code from the SVN branch here 
> http://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/branches/1.1.x/. I don't think that there 
> will be many changes comming up and the APIs and database is stable so that 
> you just will need to do a few svn updates to have a stable 1.1 version.
>>  
>> In general the card is working. We used mplayer with the epiphan recommended 
>> parameters and can view the VGA input live image.
> These don't work for me too. There is a minor error in the docs. Try this 
> (assuming that /dev/video1 is your epiphan device):
> mplayer -tv noaudio:driver=v4l:outfmt=bgr24:device=/dev/video1:fps=15 tv://
> 
>>  
>> We also successfully installed Matterhorn trunk with MOCK inputs, so far 
>> everything seems to be working well.
>>  
>> But now we don't know what the next steps are: What we need to do to make 
>> the card work with matterhorn.
> I you used the installer for the capture agent 
> (http://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/branches/1.1.x/docs/scripts/ubuntu_capture_agent/install.sh)
>  and the recommended hardware everything should be configured already and you 
> simply will need to schedule a recording on your core system.
> 
> If you did not use the installer or you use different hardware have a look at 
> this page on how to configure the capture agent:
> http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Capture+Agent+Configuration+%28Trunk%29
>>  
>> Do we just need to get the VGA2PCIe card working with Gstreamer and use a 
>> customProducer in Mattergorn config?

You can use the custom producer if you wish you make a special pipeline. 
However, by default it will use the existing VGA2USB pipeline. For example, our 
configuration for the VGA2PCIe device looks like:

capture.device.Screen.src=/dev/video0
capture.device.Screen.outputfile=Screen.mpg
capture.device.Screen.flavor=presentation/source
capture.device.Screen.buffer.bytes=536870912

> For the epiphan you would need to add the following at the end of   
> $FELIX_HOME/conf/services/org.orpencastproject.capture.ConfigurationManager.properties
> capture.device.SCREEN.src=/dev/video1
> capture.device.SCREEN.outputfile=screen.mpg
> capture.device.SCREEN.flavor=presentation/source
> capture.device.SCREEN.codec=ffenc_mpeg2video
> capture.device.SCREEN.codec.bitrate=2048
> capture.device.SCREEN.codec.container=mpegtsmux
> capture.device.SCREEN.framerate=5
> And don't forget to add SCREEN to the capture.device.names-property in the 
> same file.
> 
> I hope I could help you with this information.
> 
> Good luck
> Rüdiger
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