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Started new thread.
Well here is what we got. OSnexus with The media harmony samba module compiled into it. This allows multiple Avids to work from one shared drive letter with no problem on the same project but not from the same bin, otherwise they over wright each others bins that's because no locking is happening on the bin.
We have a unity we are renting for 10 weeks so I am going to take the opportunity to look under the hood traffic wise and see what's going on.
Facilis ,as some are familiar with , have this unity impersonation mode. That tricks avid into thinking its unity storage attached and activates the unity features like bin locking ,displaying who has the lock on the bin etc...
I have never really used a unity hands on till a week ago and a freelance editor took the time to show me the workflow which I am certain we could replicate.
Maybe it's some sort of scsi header thing which we could mimic.
More to come.
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Saker,(minor thread jack)Where have you gotten with tricking the Avid's into thinking it's a Unity? I had some success with this back in 2010 on FC attached workstations. Sneaky text files and all. What whistles are you looking at and what is your approach? (If you dont mind sharing!)Julian Firminger
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Ben De Luca <bdeluca@gmail.com> wrote:I believe the drivers all originate from teridichi and the mac driver was seen as a low priority due to the small market.On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Jean-Francois Panisset <panisset@gmail.com> wrote:Very useful to know, thanks!Has anyone tried the TERA2 stuff from Leadtek?They are also claiming "OS independence", but their Mac drivers are 10.5 vintage, so that's not very reassuring.JFOn Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Matthew Cahill <mcahill@wetafx.co.nz> wrote:Hey JFI'd get in contact with them, we had one on test at MPC before I left. Can confirm we had it working with macs and they had a working kernel extension to stop the dithering hammering the bandwidth.Worked with the terra soft switcher too! 12 cards per 4U chassis i believe.CheersMattOn 17/06/2013, at 6:43 PM, Jean-Francois Panisset <panisset@gmail.com> wrote:Poking around the Amulet site, I'm not finding something that would be an external box on the host computer site, it seems they are also selling a PCIe card.A big advantage of an external encoder box is that it might actually work with Macs?JFTo unsubscribe from the list send a blank e-mail to mailto:studiosysadmins-discuss-request@studiosysadmins.com?subject=unsubscribeOn Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Ben De Luca <bdeluca@gmail.com> wrote:I think our flames are full with a fibre card, sas adaptor and then a 10 gig card.I was thinking of something like http://www.amulethotkey.com/products/dxr2ip a terradichi pcoip adaptor that external to the box.I have heard of them but havn't seen one in action or know of any one using them or what they might cost.My hope is one day I can link in our flames with our existing pcoip infrastructure.On the pcoip front do people have some thing better for the assignment side of equipment than the terridichi web controller?On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:30 AM, Dan Young <vfx.it.london@gmail.com> wrote:Classic problem isn't it?
Yeah the tera2's are mint - no matter the f10 being strong I'd test the following wrt quality of experience;
- forced 8-bit through switch
- non-forced through switch
- forced through switch on private vlan
- non-forced on private vlan
- point to point for both
Would be interesting to hear your findings
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> That's said the 8bit vs 10bit is a. interesting issue. I am still going to test and see what plays out. We currently just have a DVI patch panel. (Only have 3 flames) but all 6 Avids are Pcoip and I want them to be able to connect to the flames just as easy when my tape-ops need to swap bays around which happens more than I like.
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>> I am going to be using the new Tera2 cards and portals. Noticed a big difference in quality and playback of full screen material.
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>> It will be going through a switch but I can do P2P. I have had no issues when routing through our force10 gear. We had one last purple Dino (summit 400) left in our MCR room because I was to lazy to pull new fiber with LC to LC for a force10 switch . the extreme is an SC xenpack . It cannot handle PCoip more that 6 machines took it down as machines suddenly became laggy. Popped in a f10 no issues.
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>> On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:10 AM, Dan Young <vfx.it.london@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Saker - remember, you need about 78-85mbps dedicated to get good performance out of XOrg extended for flame (whilst forcing an 8-bit display) - are you going to be going point-to-point with it or going through a switch? I actually had someone complain about having to be "held back by 8-bit display in the Flame GUI" when the guy was using a CG241 (an 8-bit monitor) - which was particularly amazing because there's almost no way of extending a 10-bit GUI without the supplied 75' AvenView DisplayPort cable that has replaced the orange DVI AvenView - and having a CG245 or newer Eizo.... facepalm's abounded...
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