4. Operating
Barco – TransForm A - Workstation for Windows – DOC-3266-2 – Revision 16 – August 2007
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If using the option /c:, make sure to indicate the complete absolute or relative path to the
configuration file!
Video channels and configuration files
The term video channel refers with basic video display mode to a single port of a Q
UAD
A
NALOG
V
IDEO
C
ARD
, S
TREAM-
ING
V
IDEO
C
ARD
,
Q
UAD
SDI
V
IDEO
C
ARD
,
D
UAL
DVI
I
NPUT
C
ARD
or D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARD
. With distributed video it refers to
the video that is displayed by multiple input cards in different areas of the display wall, see section
When starting the video software, option
/d:
specifies a certain video channel, option
/c:
allows to read set-
tings for displaying the video from a certain configuration file. If the video software is started without specifying
one of these options, the first video channel to be found is selected and displayed using the default settings.
The video channels can be started by means of their default names. With basic video display mode these are
frg0
,
frg1
,
frg2
, ... .
The order of the video and RGB-channels (
frg0
,
frg1
,
frg2
, …) takes into account the order of the input cards
in T
RANS
F
ORM
A, please refer to section
for OmniBus configurations and section
Processor configurations respectively. The following example explains the order of channels for two D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARDS
, one Q
UAD
A
NALOG
V
IDEO
C
ARD
and one S
TREAMING
V
IDEO
C
ARD
, where in the PCI order there is first one
D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARD
, then the Q
UAD
A
NALOG
V
IDEO
C
ARD
followed by the S
TREAMING
V
IDEO
C
ARD
and finally the other
D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARD
:
video
channel
name of video
channel
name of default configuration file
D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARD
1
1
2
frg0
frg1
default.frg0.vcf
default.frg1.vcf
Q
UAD
A
NALOG
V
IDEO
C
ARD
1
3
4
5
6
frg2
frg3
frg4
frg5
default.frg2.vcf
default.frg3.vcf
default.frg4.vcf
default.frg5.vcf
S
TREAMING
V
IDEO
C
ARD
1
7
8
9
10
frg6
frg7
frg8
frg9
default.frg6.vcf
default.frg7.vcf
default.frg8.vcf
default.frg9.vcf
D
UAL
RGB-I
NPUT
-C
ARD
2
11
12
frg10
frg11
default.frg10.vcf
default.frg11.vcf
Table 4-5
default.frg0.vcf
is the corresponding default configuration file of the first channel of the first D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARD
. After removing the D
UAL
RGB
I
NPUT
C
ARD
this file would apply to the first channel of the Q
UAD
A
NALOG
V
IDEO
C
ARD
.
If using the names defined in the switcher definition file for the video channels the configuration file is
default.<name>.vcf
.
The default configuration files are stored in the folder:
\%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Barco\VideoConf
With the factory default settings the variable
%USERPROFILE%
is:
?:\Documents and Settings\<
USER
>.
If using a Streaming Video Card SVC-1 to show a source of TransForm SCN, then this source will use
the first
frg
channel of the card (in the example above this would be
frg6
). The other three chan-
nels remain unused (
frg7
,
frg8
and
frg9
)!