[Sumover-tech] RE: [AG-TECH] Sony EVI-HD1 camera

[Andrew A Rowley]

Hi,

Have you considered submitting this to the SUMOVER project for inclusion in future versions of vic?

Andrew :)

============================================
Access Grid Support Centre,
RSS Group,
Manchester Computing,
Kilburn Building,
University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester, 
M13 9PL, 
UK
Tel: +44(0)161-275 0685
Email: Andrew.Rowley at manchester.ac.uk 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On
> Behalf Of Christoph Willing
> Sent: 09 March 2007 04:23
> To: John I Quebedeaux Jr
> Cc: ag-tech mailing list
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Sony EVI-HD1 camera
> 
> 
> On 09/03/2007, at 3:49 AM, John I Quebedeaux Jr wrote:
> 
> > Someone asked me about this camera for HD use on the AG: http://
> > www.picturephone.com/products/sony_evi_hd1.htm
> >
> > Anyone have any experience with it? I'm wondering if it was used,
> > how to best "capture" it into a system for use on the AG...
> > interest in using HD is high here. I'm more concerned about
> > logistical issues with high resolution images on displays that
> > don't have that much "resolution" space - particularly if several
> > sites are involved.
> 
> 
> John,
> 
> With regard to screen space logistics, we've developed a version of
> vic that does DV and HDV - full details and perhaps a demo at the
> forthcoming AG Retreat. One of the changes is the ability to resize
> the video window(s) to any size you like. Thus you could accomodate
> several streams at smaller than true HD size when display space
> becomes tight.
> 
> BTW, I think that when DV, HDV, HD are all more common in the AG,
> best practice will be to always send those formats as duplicates of
> standard H261 streams so that other sites can choose to view their
> own preferred mix of H261 and higher resolution formats (somewhat
> avoiding the screen real estate problem you raised, not to mention
> bandwidth issues). The cameras we've been testing with have a number
> of simultaneous outputs available so its trivial to send both DV/HDV
> and H261 at the same time.
> 
> 
> chris
> 
> 
> Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8350
> QCIF Access Grid Manager
> University of Queensland
> 
> 
>