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Re: [AG-TECH] Bring a remote Polycom system into AccressGrid meeting
by Tom Coffin 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

you can accomplish this by bringing the video and audio outputs from the polycom into the Accesgrid machine and in return sending a converted vga image of the display machine to the polycom - the tricky part is handling the echo cancellation At 01:47 PM 6/9/2008, Shijie Yang wrote: >Hi, > >Anyone had experience to bring a remote Polycom system into AccressGrid >meeting? > >Thanks, > >Shijie Yang >CHESS/Cornell University >200L Wilson Lab >Ithaca, NY 14853 >Main number: 607-255-7163 ___________________________________________________________ Tom Coffin .......................... tcoffin(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu NCSA-ACCESS cel: 703-477-5948 901 North Stuart Street, #800 tel: 703-248-0105 Arlington, Virginia 22203 fax: 703-248-0100 _________________________ http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~tcoffin

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Bring a remote Polycom system into AccressGrid meeting
by Shijie Yang 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hi, Anyone had experience to bring a remote Polycom system into AccressGrid meeting? Thanks, Shijie Yang CHESS/Cornell University 200L Wilson Lab Ithaca, NY 14853 Main number: 607-255-7163

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SIGGRAPH Chapter Seminar over AG: 11th June "VEs, Illusion and Presence"
by Martin Turner 06 Jun '08

06 Jun '08

ProgId Word.Document Generator Microsoft Word 11 Originator Microsoft Word 11 *** Apologies for Cross-posting *** " VEs, Illusions and Presence" Presentatiuon on Wednesday 11th June 2008; 2pm-4pm BST Room1:10 Kilburn Building The University of Manchester UK http:,Manchester.siggraph.org Virtual Environment Centres (VEs) have now been around for a couple of decades if not longer. They have ranged from CAVEs to portable units, coming in various sizes and shapes as well as being at times ridiculously expensive to compromisingly cheap. As new ideas and faster Computer Graphics processors and projectors emerge certain VEs die of lack of use; but new spaces present themselves. This session includes views from Mary Whitton, University of North Carolina, Roger Hubbold, University of Manchester, Anthony Steed, UCL, and others is an open discussion forum after the Eurographics UK Chapter conference and designed to consider briefly past spaces that VEs have filled and their use, but also consider new spaces that are or may emerging. Part of the ACM SIGGRAPH University of Manchester Professional Chapter Seminar Series: Access Grid instructions below. ======= Anyone wishing to view a seminar via Access Grid should note the following. Please check the Jabber room shortly before the start of the seminar to find if ScreenStreamer is to be used. Jabber room: university-of-manchester-(1.10)(sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk)(a)conference.mcs.anl.gov ScreenStreamer: * Preferably use ScreenStreamer software - go to http://www.memetic-vre.net/software/ScreenStreamer/ScreenStreamer.php and select room "University of Manchester (1.10)" from the AGSC section. Grab the screen feed (by clicking on it) from the screenstreamer window and resize it - more info can be found on http://www.memetic-vre.net/software/ScreenStreamer. * Alternatively, the screenshot (not animated) can be accessed at http://192.150.184.66:7890 (this IP might change for some sessions - please check Jabber). For technical assistance regarding the Access Grid, please contact the Access Grid Support Centre. Non-UK Access Grid nodes are advised to contact the Access Grid Support Centre to check connectivity before the date of the seminar. If possible, please let us know in advance if your site intends to join a seminar.

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Re: [AG-TECH] Access Grid Interactive Map
by Thomas D. Uram 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

I simply resaved the node listing and it now appears in the right place. (I really despise resolutions like this...) Tom On 6/5/08 9:12 AM, Desmond Walker wrote: > Hello > > Could anybody help me get our node out of the sea. > I have just put our node at University College London on the AG Global > Interactive Map > > > Post code WC1E 6EA > Longitude 51.5219 > Latitude -0.1318 > > Kindest Regards > > Desmond > > > http://www.accessgrid.org/node/1158 > > > > > > Desmond Walker > Video Communications Technologist > Media Services > University College London > > E-mail: desmond.walker(a)ucl.ac.uk > Tel: 0207 679 9356 > Mobile: 0776 974 4866 > http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mediares/multimedia/services/accessgrid/index.html > > >

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Access Grid Interactive Map
by Desmond Walker 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hello Could anybody help me get our node out of the sea. I have just put our node at University College London on the AG Global Interactive Map Post code WC1E 6EA Longitude 51.5219 Latitude -0.1318 Kindest Regards Desmond http://www.accessgrid.org/node/1158 Desmond Walker Video Communications Technologist Media Services University College London E-mail: desmond.walker(a)ucl.ac.uk Tel: 0207 679 9356 Mobile: 0776 974 4866 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mediares/multimedia/services/accessgrid/index.html

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RE: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers
by Jason Bell 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

G'day Ben This is an interesting topic and personally I don't think there is a "right" way of doing things. One of the issues I see it that Venue Servers are dynamic and things change. For example, the host name might change, etc. I know with the "All-in-one-installer", it creates shortcuts to various "popular" Venue Servers, which I think is quite useful. I guess the other issues is that some Venue Servers are private and don't wish to be published. Hopefully, having a list of publicly listed Venue Servers under the AG Community will be a good start for locating other Servers when needed. To answer you other question, to my knowledge, there is no " block of venues that everyone is told to maintain on their venue server". Thanks for your email, Jason. -----Original Message----- From: Ben Green [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, 4 June 2008 06:46 PM To: Jason Bell; ag-tech(a)mcs.anl.gov Subject: RE: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers Hi Jason, Thanks for making that list. I'm currently writing up a document on 'international meetings' to give to our users. This obviously isn't all that straight forward for new users, as it usually involves getting everyone using the same venue server to ensure the same list of virtual venues. So here in the UK, we usually ask people to use our server, sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk, so that when the UK participant announces the virtual venue to be used, they know that all international participants will have that same venue available. Ideally, all Toolkit venue servers worldwide would share a block of international venues so that anyone using any server will have the same choice of virtual venues. I'm sure I'm going to get loads of replies now telling me this does exist already ! Perhaps this is what the 'Original Venues' list is for. But is there a block of venues that everyone is told to maintain on their venue server? Regards, Ben. ----------------------------------------- Ben Green Access Grid Support Centre Research Computing Services University of Manchester Room G49-H, Kilburn Building Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 306 6621 fax: +44 (0)161 275 0637 email - ben.green(a)manchester.ac.uk web - www.agsc.ja.net ----------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: owner-ag-tech(a)mcs.anl.gov [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Bell Sent: 04 June 2008 00:40 To: ag-tech(a)mcs.anl.gov Subject: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers Dear Colleagues I have listed a few of the known "Global Public Venue Servers" on the AG website, which can be found under the Community section. See http://www.accessgrid.org/community. If you would like to see your venue server listed (or changed), please contact me and I will modify the list. Regards, Jason. -------------------------------------------- Jason Bell, B.I.T. (Honours) Research Systems Support Officer Information Technology Division Central Queensland University Australian Research Collaboration Service http://www.arcs.org.au/ E-mail : j.bell(a)cqu.edu.au jason.bell(a)arcs.org.au Work : +61 7 4930 9229 Mobile : 0409 630897 Postal : Building 19 Central Queensland University Bruce Highway Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 4702 -------------------------------------------- Patience is a virtue. But if I wanted Patience, I would have become a Doctor. --------------------------------------------

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How Windows manages to difference the capturer devices?
by Miguel Sáez 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, 06/04/08 09:59:12 1448 Toolkit config.py:624 DEBUG wdmscan filelines = ["Conexant's BtPCI Capture,S-Video,Composite\n", "Conexant's BtPCI Capture,S-Video,Composite\n", "Conexant's BtPCI Capture,S-Video,Composite\n", "Conexant's BtPCI Capture,S-Video,Composite\n"] 06/04/08 09:59:12 1448 Toolkit config.py:657 INFO GetResources: {'Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)': ['external-in'], "Conexant's BtPCI Capture": ['S-Video', 'Composite']} Anyone knows why i'm getting only 1 Conexant's BtPCI Capture in the 'GetResources' when i have 4 of them installed?, i'm guessing windows can't really manage more than 1 device with the same name?. -- ==================================================== Miguel ï¿½ngel Sï¿½ez Llorente Tï¿½cnico de Comunicaciï¿½ns Centro de Supercomputaciï¿½n de Galicia (CESGA) Avenida de Vigo, s/n (Campus Sur) 15705 Santiago de Compostela - ESPAï¿½A E-mail: msaez(a)cesga.es Tel: +34 981 56 98 10 (ext. 246) Fax: +34 981 59 46 16 Web: http://www.cesga.es/ ====================================================

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RE: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers
by Ben Green 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi Jason, Thanks for making that list. I'm currently writing up a document on 'international meetings' to give to our users. This obviously isn't all that straight forward for new users, as it usually involves getting everyone using the same venue server to ensure the same list of virtual venues. So here in the UK, we usually ask people to use our server, sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk, so that when the UK participant announces the virtual venue to be used, they know that all international participants will have that same venue available. Ideally, all Toolkit venue servers worldwide would share a block of international venues so that anyone using any server will have the same choice of virtual venues. I'm sure I'm going to get loads of replies now telling me this does exist already ! Perhaps this is what the 'Original Venues' list is for. But is there a block of venues that everyone is told to maintain on their venue server? Regards, Ben. ----------------------------------------- Ben Green Access Grid Support Centre Research Computing Services University of Manchester Room G49-H, Kilburn Building Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL tel: +44 (0)161 306 6621 fax: +44 (0)161 275 0637 email - ben.green(a)manchester.ac.uk web - www.agsc.ja.net ----------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: owner-ag-tech(a)mcs.anl.gov [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Bell Sent: 04 June 2008 00:40 To: ag-tech(a)mcs.anl.gov Subject: [AG-TECH] List of Venue Servers Dear Colleagues I have listed a few of the known "Global Public Venue Servers" on the AG website, which can be found under the Community section. See http://www.accessgrid.org/community. If you would like to see your venue server listed (or changed), please contact me and I will modify the list. Regards, Jason. -------------------------------------------- Jason Bell, B.I.T. (Honours) Research Systems Support Officer Information Technology Division Central Queensland University Australian Research Collaboration Service http://www.arcs.org.au/ E-mail : j.bell(a)cqu.edu.au jason.bell(a)arcs.org.au Work : +61 7 4930 9229 Mobile : 0409 630897 Postal : Building 19 Central Queensland University Bruce Highway Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, 4702 -------------------------------------------- Patience is a virtue. But if I wanted Patience, I would have become a Doctor. --------------------------------------------

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RE: [AG-TECH] What's happened to the Toolkit 'all in one' installer?
by Jason Bell 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

G'day All The all-in-one-installer can be found under the Projects section of the AG website. See http://www.accessgrid.org/projects, or http://www.accessgrid.org/project/easy_setup for direct access. The reason why it is listed under "projects" and not under the software page, is because it is a project, in which it includes additional AG software that might be useful, such as: * AGVCR * Shared Desktop * VenueVNC * VPCScreen (send video from your monitor) * TigerBoard (shared whiteboard) * H.264 Video Services * Extended Video Services (for people with firewire cameras and way too much bandwidth) In my opinion, I highly recommend using this version of the installer, as is it extremely easy to install and there is no need to download and install multiple packages to get it all working. I hope this clarifies your question. If you have any further enquiries, please don't hesitate to contact me. Cheers, Jason. -----Original Message----- From: John I Quebedeaux Jr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2008 02:44 PM To: Fred Dech Cc: Ben Green; Miguel S?ez; ag-tech list; Thomas D. Uram Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] What's happened to the Toolkit 'all in one' installer? If you're logged into the website, try logging out and then see if you can access it. I've noticed (while at the retreat and in the workshop) that we couldn't 'find it' until logging out of the site. I'm copying Tom on this so he will have a chance soon to take a look. Yes, the Retreat wrapped up on Friday. It was a good retreat, a good many folks were there! I did miss a few from past retreats but did meet plenty of new folks as well. -John Q. -- John I. Quebedeaux, Jr.; Louisiana State University Computer Manager LBRN; 131 Life Sciences Bldg. e-mail: johnq(a)lsu.edu; web: http://lbrn.lsu.edu phone: 225-578-0062 / fax: 225-578-2597 On May 30, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Fred Dech wrote: > you're right, Michael. it isn't there at the moment. the link to > AGTK3.1 takes you to the ag home page > i'm sure that's temporary. Tom and Eric and others are running the > Retreat, > so they have probably been too busy to notice or something to that > effect. > or there is a conference related method behind the redirect. most > likely > the former, since there wasn't a public announcement about it. > > --fred > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 04:50PM, Ben Green wrote: >> Thanks Miguel, >> >> We generally only direct our users to the official downloads page. >> >> I editing the AGSC documentation regarding softare installation, so >> would like to include this installer, as it really simplifies >> things. But I'm not keen on pointing users to a 'project' page, >> even though I have total confidence in what Nathan and Ed created. >> >> Is there a plan to make this the official download, or at least >> include it was an option for first time users? >> >> Regards, Ben. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Miguel Sï¿½ez [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: 29 May 2008 16:23 >> To: ben.green(a)manchester.ac.uk; AG-TECH list >> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] What's happened to the Toolkit 'all in one' >> installer? >> >> Hello Ben, >> >> You can get it from http://www.accessgrid.org/project/easy_setup >> (http://www.accessgrid.org/files/AGTK3.1_easyinstaller.exe) . I >> think it never got listed in the URL you posted. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ben Green escribiï¿½: >>> There doesn't seem to be anything listed at: >>> >>> http://www-new.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/software/releases/3 >>> . >>> 1/windows.html >>> >>> I hadn't got round to trying out this new installer - did it not >>> work? >>> >>> Cheers, Ben. >>> >>> ----------------------------------------- >>> Ben Green >>> >>> Research Computing Development Officer Research Computing Services >>> University of Manchester Room G49-H, Kilburn Building Oxford Road, >>> Manchester, M13 9PL >>> >>> tel: +44 (0)161 306 6621 >>> fax: +44 (0)161 275 0637 >>> email - ben.green(a)manchester.ac.uk >>> web - http://www.rcs.manchester.ac.uk/ >>> ----------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> ==================================================== >> Miguel ï¿½ngel Sï¿½ez Llorente >> Tï¿½cnico de Comunicaciï¿½ns >> >> Centro de Supercomputaciï¿½n de Galicia (CESGA) Avenida de Vigo, s/n >> (Campus Sur) >> 15705 Santiago de Compostela - ESPAï¿½A >> >> E-mail: msaez(a)cesga.es >> Tel: +34 981 56 98 10 (ext. 246) >> Fax: +34 981 59 46 16 >> Web: http://www.cesga.es/ >> ==================================================== >> >

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Re: [AG-TECH] errors in vic
by Piers O'Hanlon 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hi Mike, When did this start happening? Any recent changes? What sort of capture hardware are you using? Piers On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Michael Miller <mimiller(a)ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote: > Has anyone ever seen these error messages from vic? > > Image dimensions not suitable. > ICLocate: Unable to find supported bpp for format 64737664! > RGB_Converter: Unsuported bpp! > > They occur when things start up and I can't get to the menu to change anything. > > any ideas? > > myk > >

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