Thanks for the reply. The Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32) is the only option present in this configuration menu. Think I will just format one of the client machines and reinstall everything the way it was done on the working nodes. This should verify ( or not ) that using the driver installer was what caused the problem. It just seems weird that it would affect the vic and not any other capture software. Thanks again, Niall. -- -- | Niall Moran | Systems Administrator | Irish Centre for High-End Computing \[email protected] -------------------------- On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 12:38:12PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:

Hey,

I had a similar issue on Windows. Not sure if this is exactly the case for you though. When I select the capture card driver as the resource in the VideoService Configuration, vic crashes. Selecting "Microsoft WDM Image Capture (Win32)" instead, made vic works smoothly.

-Monika

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Hi,

I am trying to setup an access grid system. We are using a linux machine to host the venue server and windows XP machines for the access grid clients. Each machine is identical and has the same specs.

* Pentium 4 3.0Ghz * 1GB ram * 160gb disk * nvidia quatro 1400 dual dvi card * osprey 300 video capture card

Software running on each machine is windows xp SP2 Access grid toolkit 2.4

I setup the first 2 clients and everything worked fine. When setting up the second 2 clients however I ran into some difficulties. The vic capture process crashes with a runtime error.

The only difference between the setup procedures was that on the 2 clients that do work the capture card drivers were simply installed using the windows add/remove devices utility. However on the 2 clients that are having the problems the capture card drivers were installed using the setup utility that came on the cd. There was a dialog during the install to set the format of the video ( i.e. NTSC, PAL ... ). PAL was choosen here.

So far I uninstalled the driver and reinstalled the way that worked previously. Downloaded the latest osprey drivers from the net and installed them using both methods. None of this has made any difference.

On the 2 machines that do not work. All other software that accesses the capture card works perfectly, VLC, windows movie maker and the utilities that came with the capture card.

Has anyone come accross anything similar or know of any where to go from here? I would greatly appreciate any help.

Cheers,

Niall.

-- -- | Niall Moran | Systems Administrator | Irish Centre for High-End Computing \[email protected] --------------------------

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