I think that this point can't go diminished: > The caveat (beyond pricing and size of the box) with any vendor (even > the giant ones like Dell) are reliability and warranty support, so
These systems are in high heat environments. We picked components when building our reference implementation machines from as reliable of sources as possible, but one of the more generic components (the power supply wall wart) turned out to be a weak link for everyone. Most unpleasant to have a nice system throughout and then stuck with a power adaptor that was unreliable. Also, Stuart, note that epiphan might be able to make internal cards that are part of their faster line, I'm not sure. So the regular pci2vga can't grab 30fps at high framerates, but some of their others can. Finally, consider that for the reference implementation you should have a dscalar in front of the system in order to make sure resolution changes don't effect the capture. There is some work to diminish this, but I don't have details on how well it has been tested, so we have continued to use scalars. Another $250 price and a little more room required in the cabinet. Chris -- 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
