Thanks Greg for your detailed response. It appears am trying to install the 
core and CA on the same machine. I will do a seperate installation for it now. 
concerning the capture, what configuration settings should I use to capture 
both the video and audio when setting up the capture agent. I will also prefer 
that the video format should be in mp4 and the audio in mp3. Can I achieve this 
during set-up or do I need to create a new workflow and encoding. from my 
understanding mp2 captures both the video and audio.

Thanks

Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:51:39 -0600
From: Greg Logan <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Matterhorn-users] getting the capture agent running
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"

On 12-07-18 03:33 PM, adeseye a. (aa5g11) wrote:
> Can someone help resolve this issue.
> Anticipating your prompt response.

Unfortunately the European are likely asleep, and there aren't a huge
number of North American devs.  Responses can take a day or two on list.
 There is also an IRC channel at #opencast on freenode for live support
and chat, assuming people are around.

> ________________________________
> From: adeseye a. (aa5g11)
> Sent: 18 July 2012 14:03
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: getting the capture agent running
>
> Hi,
>
> After installing the core. am trying the install the capture agent. after the 
> installation, I think it failed to work. The URL 
> http://localhost:8080/engage/ui and http://localhost:8080/admin/ which 
> signifies the go to admin tools and go to media modules respectively display 
> an http error 404. also clicking on the Go to Capture and clicking start 
> capturing displays the error "There was a problem starting your capture, 
> please check the logs". the log file is attached and the cofiguration of both 
> the Core. Am not sure which directory to check to get the configuration  file 
> of the CA. the core files where copied from the directory 
> /opt/matterhorn/felix/conf. can anyone please help resolve this issue.

A few questions:

1.  Are you installing a CA on your core?  Or is this a separate machine?
2.  Your log appears to be from the CA, but the config files you
attached are labelled CORE.  They appear to be from a CA, so are they
just a tad mislabelled?

It's not recommended to install a full CA on a core.  This will more
than likely mangle the config files quite badly if you use the install
script.  I'm going to operate on the assumption that this is all on the
CA, and the core is somewhere else.  In this case your configuration
files are incorrect, which explains the log messages you are seeing.

config.properties:

org.opencastproject.server.url is the URL to the current host.  For
instance http://my_ca:8080 and http://my_core:8080, which I will use in
the rest of this email.  Your CA's config file should contain the former
example, your core's config file should contain the latter.

org.opencastproject.capture.impl.ConfigurationManager.properties:

org.opencastproject.capture.core.url is the URL of the core which this
CA should talk to.  This should be the same as the value of
org.opencastproject.server.url in your core's config.properties file.

Also, your device configuration at the bottom of this config file is
badly mangled.  It appears you removed the name of the device itself,
which means that your CA will not be able to capture properly.  The
bottom five lines should look like this (replace my_device with whatever
friendly name you want to use):

capture.device.my_device.src=hw:
capture.device.my_device.outputfile=.mp2
capture.device.my_device.flavor=presenter/source
capture.device.my_device.buffer.bytes=536870912
capture.device.names=my_device

Just a warning, the above configuration will only capture the audio
input.  It has no video inputs defined, which may or may not be what you
want!

G
________________________________
From: adeseye a. (aa5g11)
Sent: 18 July 2012 22:33
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: getting the capture agent running

Can someone help resolve this issue.
Anticipating your prompt response.
________________________________
From: adeseye a. (aa5g11)
Sent: 18 July 2012 14:03
To: [email protected]
Subject: getting the capture agent running

Hi,

After installing the core. am trying the install the capture agent. after the 
installation, I think it failed to work. The URL 
http://localhost:8080/engage/ui and http://localhost:8080/admin/ which 
signifies the go to admin tools and go to media modules respectively display an 
http error 404. also clicking on the Go to Capture and clicking start capturing 
displays the error "There was a problem starting your capture, please check the 
logs". the log file is attached and the cofiguration of both the Core. Am not 
sure which directory to check to get the configuration  file of the CA. the 
core files where copied from the directory /opt/matterhorn/felix/conf. can 
anyone please help resolve this issue.

thanks
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