Dear Dr Leslaw

 

How is your VGA/DVI configuration? 

I have connected a machine with 1024x768 resolution and here is my
FrameGrabber settings:

 

Interval between VGA signals autoadjastments: 60 secs

Offset: 30

Gain: 185

 

 

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dr Leslaw
Zieleznik
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 1:00 PM
To: Matterhorn Users
Subject: Re: [Matterhorn-users] MattherHorn 1.2 and Epiphan Capture
Appliance Updates and Issues -- New User

 

Hi Reza,

 

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.

 

You need to  enable the audio and connect the microphone, it will then start
recording all three streams. 

 

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.

 

This is know bug,  MCA sits in the capture state (the workflow is showing
PAUSE) for about 35min and then will do the ingestion. 

 

In summary the device is capturing nicely if you take the above into account
- see also below.

There is more information about the device behave on the Matterhorn Users
list.

 

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?

 

I have no problem with this, only the text OCR is not very accurate.

 

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)

 

I am using a similar setup: 2, 60, 5.

 

Best,

Leslaw

 

 

On 1 Dec 2011, at 14:30, Dr Leslaw Zieleznik wrote:





 

I have finally the ECD working fine, recording two independent streams.

And it is diffucult to believe how this has happened?   :)

 

I have simply connected a microphone, activated the audio and then rebooted
device, just for the purpose of testing the audio. And this somehow did
trigger two streams recording. I think it means that the audio need to be
enabled (!)

I wonder if you can repeat the same on your device?

 

As far as the video quality is concern, the recording quality is much better
when 'independent streams' option is  selected - the video quality is much
worse when the 'video outside DVI/VGA' is used.

 

By the way, I am using the f/w version v2.2.3 which I have downloaded on
Monday. 

This has not been advertised for download yet -  I am sorry Greg!

 

 

Leslaw

 

 

 

 

On 8 Dec 2011, at 07:45, VISIONAIRE-Reza Toghraee wrote:





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



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