Hi Madhurima, Anything that puts out a PAL/NTSC signal that can be run over BNC should be fine. This should be most security cameras, for instance, as well as most regular camera. I think that bluecherry, the PC-143 vendor actually sells cameras too, so they might be worth checking with.
Chris On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:56:50 -0700 (PDT) Madhurima Bandyopadhyay <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone suggest me any video cameras are compatible with video > capture card PV-143 or PV-149. > > Thanks, > Madhurima > > > > ________________________________ > From: Greg Logan <[email protected]> > To: Matterhorn Users <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:28 PM > Subject: Re: [Matterhorn-users] Specification of capture agent > hardware > > On 2011-07-14 5:48 PM, Madhurima Bandyopadhyay wrote: > > Greg, > > > > Thanks for your reply. > > > > I have some question regarding the Matterhorn(1.1) installation. > > > > 1) Can I install core server and capture agent on the same computer? > > You can, however this would need to be a very powerful machine. Our > standard deployment scenarios consist of a capture agent on one > machine in the classroom and the core on another in a different > location. > > > 2) I have tried to install the capture agent and it is asking me to > > chose the VGA2USB epiphan drivers. > > Please let me know what is the use of VGA2USB drivers? > > Is it a required or optional hardware for matterhorn? > > If you have an Epiphan VGA2USB device hooked up to your capture agent > it will prompt you for the drivers. That device is designed to > capture VGA inputs, and (unfortunately) requires Epiphan drivers to > function. The device itself is entirely optional, depending on what > you want to capture. If you do not have one of these cards it should > not be prompting you to install them :) > > G > > > Regards, > > Madhurima > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *From:* Greg Logan <[email protected]> > > *To:* Matterhorn Users <[email protected]> > > *Sent:* Thursday, July 14, 2011 7:16 PM > > *Subject:* Re: [Matterhorn-users] Specification of capture agent > > hardware > > > > Hi Madhurima, > > > > Version 1.2 should work with your firewire camera, although it may > > require some experimentation to get the settings right. > > > > The reference hardware list can be obtained from > > http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Reference+Hardware+%28Trunk%29, > > although many other configurations will run with some work! > > > > Let us know if you have any more questions, > > G > > > > On 11-07-14 05:01 PM, Madhurima Bandyopadhyay wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Can any one tell me the specification of capture agents (webcam, > >> microphone, etc). > >> I am trying to install capture agent of version 1.1 on a linux > >> (ubuntu) based system. > >> > >> I have a firewire camera and and I was trying to use it as capture > >> agent , but finally I figure it out that the capture agents should > >> be USB based, so please suggest me which hardware devices are more > >> compatible for Matterhorn 1.1. > >> > >> Thanks, > >> Madhurima > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Matterhorn-users mailing list > >> [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > >> http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Matterhorn-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Matterhorn-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users -- Christopher Brooks, BSc, MSc ARIES Laboratory, University of Saskatchewan Web: http://www.cs.usask.ca/~cab938 Phone: 1.306.966.1442 Mail: Advanced Research in Intelligent Educational Systems Laboratory Department of Computer Science University of Saskatchewan 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, SK S7N 5C9 _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
