Hi folks I got a Epiphan MatterHorn Capture Appliance (made for MatterHorn aka MCA) 3 days back. I was struggling to make it working with MatterHorn, which finally I did it, but Im facing some issues which appreciate your thoughts on that.
I installed a very clean MatterHorn 1.2 on Ubuntu 10.10 server-i386 32bit, on my VMware Workstation 8 installed on my Windows 7 (host). On MCA (firmware 2.2.0e) , I configured my server URL (ie 192.168.110.87:8080) and the account username and password which was specified in my config.properties. (matterhorn_system_account, CHANGE_ME) So the first couple of hours I was trying to Register the MCA inside the Core server, which was not happening. I played a lot with URL, username and password, but no luck. So finally I ran the wireshark on my NIC card and saw that the MCA is trying to register into MCA by seding a POST HTTP request to http://192.168.110.87:8080/capture-admin/agents/rest. Finally I understood that this URL is not valid in matterhorn and is changed to http://192.168.110.87:8080/capture-admin/agents. So finally I was very lucky to find the Epiphan download page for Beta software, and I downloaded the Firmware version 2.2.3 which is a beta one. (http://www.epiphan.com/downloads/firmware/Davinci_Matterhorn/beta.php) After installation of firmware and rebooting the MCA (by the way I rebooted the MCA manually, as MCA doesn't reboot by itself after software upgrade, neither doesn't show any message for successful receiving the new firmware) the MCA registered in MatterHorn CORE. (Yes what a lovely time, at 2AM). Then I stuck in another thig which was Capturing. I was scheduling the recording, but MCA was not being informed to record. Finally I found that there is a Calendar service, which the MCA has to poll (by default every 60 minutes!) to retrieve its recoding schedule. I changed the Calendar Polling Interval from 60 minutes to 1 minute, and it fixed the problem. Now I can schedule the recordings, and MCA starts the recording. But I have some issues which seek your geeky help: 0- till now, after recording more than 10 times, I couldn't manage to have the complete result of recording (Video + VGA + Audio) in Engage. 1- sometimes when recording has to be finished, the server still shows that the MCA is in Capturing state. I don't understand why the status is not being updated. 2- sometimes after the recording, it shows the recording as Finished, but I cannot see it on Engage, it shows media is not available. 3- almost most of the times, when the MCA ingests the file to the Core and Core starts digesting, usually it fails in 'Text Extraction" Phase. Is there any way to skip the text extraction phase while digesting? 4- When I try to test the Text Analysis REST docs, I upload a image (jpeg, bmp, tif, gif) to system, but it gives me an error caused by URLDECODER because of finding the '%' (percentage) character in URL. Since the file is being POST ed to the server the URLDECODER analyses the whole file as a URL, and since file is binary, there are lots of '%' inside it. Here is the MatterHorn configuration on MCA: Calendar Polling Interval: 1 minuet Agent State Push Interval: 60 seconds Ingest Interval : 2 minutes (I changed it from 60 minutes to 2 minute to speedup the ingest) Any help, comment highly appreciated. Thanks Reza Toghraee _______________________________________________ Matterhorn-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opencastproject.org/mailman/listinfo/matterhorn-users
