Thanks, that is useful. 
I have reduced the Calendar polling interval, hoping that it may reduce the 
time lag.
Can please explain the meaning of all these parameters with recommended setup?

Leslaw

On 8 Dec 2011, at 17:01, Greg Logan wrote:

> On 11-12-08 03:00 AM, Dr Leslaw Zieleznik wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> For the record, the reason the calendar polling interval is so large by
> default is that it is a fairly expensive operation internally.  If your
> calendar data is not changing that quickly (eg: production use) then a
> larger polling interval should be used.
> 
> G
> 
>> 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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>> 
>> 
>> 

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