Hi, Aaron:

You'll probably get a much comprehensive response from the developers who
are more involved with that part of the system in a short while, but I can
give you an introductory explanation :)

AFAIK, the Capture Agent will perfectly record and pack 3 video streams in
the same MediaPackage and submit it to the ingest service for processing.
However, the workflows definitions (which specify the different stages the
media goes through in order to be correctly processed and distributed) are
currently expecting only two different flavors: presentation/source and
presenter/source.
Those "flavors" are used by the media composer as tags to identify the type
of media and apply different processing operations depending on that.
Therefore, if you wanted to have another extra stream processed, you have to
"tag" it with another flavor, but then you'll need to modify the default
workflow definitions to include the operations that should be applied to
that flavor. Perhaps you will even need to create some custom operations to
apply to your custom flavour.

This is how you would get your media *processed*, but the distribution is
another problem.

The engage player is currently tied to two video streams + 1 audio stream at
most. AFAIK, there's not way to play an additional video stream, and I don't
know if work is currently being done to generalize the number of
simultaneous videos displayed. I do know this feature is identified as a
future nice-to-have characteristic, but I don't think this is a priority
right now. Perhaps there is a simple way to specify which 2 out of the 3
video tracks you have are distributed to the engage player, but for the
moment that is the best thing you can get.

I'm sorry I cannot be more helpful, but you will surely get more detailed
information from the people directly involved in the workflow design as soon
as they read this email.

Best regards
Rubén

2011/5/11 Aaron Maturen <[email protected]>

> Is there a way to implement 3 video sources in the engage player, I've got
> the epiphan vga2usb the hauppauge pvr-350 and a logitech c910 hooked up to a
> computer and I would like to be able to record from all three at the same
> time... They all have different flavors and I can't seem to get the workflow
> to correctly ingest the hauppauge (which is set up as documents/source) the
> webcam and epiphan are set up as presentation/source and presenter/source
> respectively. Any solution or push in the right direction would be much
> appreciated.
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> -Aaron Maturen
>
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