On 12-03-28 11:44 PM, Chitesh Tewani wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
>> Sorry, I got caught up in some local issues today.  Your ideas look
>> good, so the next step is to do the formal application through GSoC.
>> After that it's a waiting game to see if you get accepted.
>>
> 
> No issues sir. Sure, will draft in a proposal.
> 
> Had a few doubts regarding proposals, should I just follow the
> template as given on [1] or can I also add more to it? (Had asked the
> same thing on IRC channel yesterday, but had lost connection, so could
> not see the reply).

Yep, just follow that template.

> As it's my first time for google summer of code, will it be fine with
> you if I may send my proposal to you first, for reviewing and later
> officially submit.

For sure, I can take a look if you want.

G

> Please let me know.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> [1]: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2012/opencast
> 
> 
>> Best I can say is good luck, hopefully we can work together on this
>> project :)
>>
>> G
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Chitesh Tewani
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> I looked into the links the mentioned by you in the previous mail and tried
>>>> to understand all the parameters related to it. And I have an opinion of 
>>>> the
>>>> following UI design for capture agents.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hrm, not quite sure what was going on with [1], but it should be up
>>>>> now...  I know we don't have a lot of time before the application
>>>>> deadline, so why don't you come back with some ideas of how you think
>>>>> the UI should work.  It needs to be able to display the agent's state,
>>>>> start and stop the capture, list the media that the CA has on disk, and
>>>>> adjust the parameters listed in the configuration you'll see at [1].
>>>>> Ideally the UI should be able to display confidence monitoring
>>>>> streams/images as well, however I'm not sure of the state of the
>>>>> confidence monitoring code at the moment; this may not actually work yet
>>>>> :)
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The [1] is working perfectly fine now.
>>>>
>>>> According to me,
>>>>
>>>> 1. The top of the page should mention about the "Agent Status", whether it
>>>> is currently streaming or idle (with appropriate font colors or maybe
>>>> images).
>>>>
>>>> 2. As mentioned in [2] section 2, there should be some input box of type
>>>> 'range' + non-zero constraints + some limit value (limits to browser
>>>> supporting HTML5 but can be done in jQuery too)  frame-rate and bit-rate,
>>>> depending on the user input, it can start capturing.
>>>>
>>>> 3. I'm sorry but I am unable to understand the importance of [3] on the
>>>> ../capture/ page. If in case it is important to show the logs, we can have 
>>>> a
>>>> table kind of structure having the important parameters with corresponding
>>>> green-ticks or red-cross or maybe the some value.
>>>>
>>>> 4. As mentioned in [2] section 2, the three parameters number of 
>>>> nanoseconds
>>>> of data that can be held before frames are dropped
>>>> (capture.device.NAME.buffer.time), the number of frames that can be held
>>>> (capture.device.NAME.buffer.size), and the size in bytes that should be
>>>> reserved for holding frames (capture.device.NAME.buffer.bytes) should have
>>>> input type of range, for user to enter the values.
>>>>
>>>> 5. A Start Capture button which starts the capture. and a stop capture
>>>> button. After hitting the start capture button, the values of previous
>>>> bit-rates and frame-rates should become only in read-only mode  and cannot
>>>> be altered.
>>>>
>>>> 6. The start button should be replaced with some pause button in case one
>>>> has to pause the video along with a confirmation about one's action.
>>>>
>>>> 7. Alerts in case, if the number increases from the parameter given above,
>>>> then an alert box to say "You have exceeded the limit" type.
>>>>
>>>> 8. Also, alerts in case the 'capture agent tries to start a capture but is
>>>> receiving no signal', or 'if during the video capture the video signal
>>>> changes'.
>>>>
>>>> 9. At the end of the page, a list of media that CA has on the disk in some
>>>> table like structure listing it.
>>>>
>>>> 10. About confidence monitoring, it is different page, right? Or have to
>>>> integrate in the same page itself? Something like [4] ?
>>>>
>>>>> Eventually we want to have a user friendly way of adjusting most of the
>>>>> parameters on the CA's inputs (see
>>>>>
>>>>> http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Capture+Agent+Configuration+%28Trunk%29,
>>>>> section 2 for an example and don't worry about what the values actually
>>>>> mean just yet), so keep that in mind when working on your initial ideas.
>>>>>  Another eventual feature is a embedded version of the page inside the
>>>>> admin tools (i.e. [2]), although this is very definitely a component
>>>>> that you don't need to do unless you have lots of extra time.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We can have an embed HTML code part on the right side of the actual video 
>>>> or
>>>> an extra column in the table while listing the videos saying "Embed", when
>>>> as soon as one clicks it, the HTML code get copied on his clipboard
>>>> using http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/ perhaps.
>>>>
>>>>> Once you have some ideas then I think you need to put in a formal
>>>>> application through GSoC.  I can help proofread and whatnot for that so
>>>>> feel free to send things to me if you want help.  Don't put too much
>>>>> time into thinking about your designs yet:  You aren't guaranteed to be
>>>>> accepted!  A strong idea of what you want to do will, however, help when
>>>>> you write the 500 word 'Why are you perfect for this project' essay :)
>>>>>
>>>>> G
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know, if I'm going on the right track with this. What would 
>>>> be
>>>> my next step? Should I go about documenting a formal application for this
>>>> project?
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your kind support.
>>>>
>>>> [1]: http://testca.usask.ca:8080/welcome.html
>>>>
>>>> [2]: 
>>>> http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Capture+Agent+Configuration+%28Trunk%29,
>>>>
>>>> [3]:  http://paste.ubuntu.com/902558/
>>>>
>>>> [4]: http://opencast.jira.com/wiki/display/MH/Confidence+Monitoring
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chitesh T.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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