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Alaskanwind
About alaskanwind.wf.mbari.org Alaskanwind hosts the MS SQL Server for the WF VARS database

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Benthic Annotation Database
Creating an database of benthiconly annotations # Copy solstice:VARS to fog:VARSBenthic # Use the DTS Job on Fog: Copy Solstice:VARS to FOG:VARSBenthic # brian: I last ran this on 20080221 # Check out VARS from Subversion # {{svn ...
Benthic Results
Results Analysis Overview For checking to see the number of hits within the map bounds I did the following: # Run a query using 'VARS Query' # Save the results # Use vdmboundstest.m in matlab # data = vdmboundstest('/Users/brian/Desktop/varssediment.txt', ... '/Users ...
Building VARS at MBARI
Getting started Set up To build VARS you will need to have the following installed: # Java 5 or later # QuickTime for Java # Maven http://maven.apache.org Get the source To get started check out the source code for VARS: svn co ...

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Computers
Computers that are involved with running VARS at MBARI Computer Role Alaskanwind Western Flyer database server Dione External database server Eione External web server Equinox Master database server Glacierwind Point Lobos database server Ione ...
Containers and Codecs
Codecs Apple ProRes 422 HQ The video lab intends to use Apple ProRes 422 HQ https://support.apple.com/enus/HT202410 as an archiving codec. According to Apple, the nominal data rate is 220Mbps for 1920x1080 at 29.97fps. (i.e.773 GB/hour ...

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Deep-sea Guide
content of this page is outdated. It is only retained for historical purposes. Refer to the Video Annotation Analysis and Presentation wiki VAAP:Home for uptodate info. Web Flow Below is a diagram with the basic web flow and page layout ideas. The diagrams do not represent ...
Development
Developer Guides Building VARS at MBARI README http://vars.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vars/trunk/README?view=markup SQL Examples Futureproofing VARS VARS JPA QuickTime for Java Source Code Source Code Browse the Sourceforge Subversion repository ...
Dione
About Dione Dione is a Windows VM that hosts MS SQL 2008 and hosts the external VARS database. When using windows authentication to connect with the jtds JDBC driver don't forget to add 'useNTLMv2=true' in the connection string. See http ...

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Eione
About Eione Eione is a linux VM that hosts an external database server. It is aliased using the CNAME http://dsg.mbari.org Image files The video labs DSG representative images are mounted from \\Tornado\videolab\VARSImages to \mbari\dsg\kbimages ...
Equinox
About Equinox Equinox is a windows server running SQL Server 2008. Equinox hosts the following VARS databases: # VARS For video lab annotations # VARSKB VARS Knowledgebase, shared by all versions of VARS running internally # VARSimaging For image based ...

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Glacierwind
About glacierwind.pl.mbari.org Glacierwind hosts the MS SQL Server for the PL VARS database

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HD vs SD Frame Capture
ROVUC, all ROV video and frame grab users, ROV pilots, Brian Schlining, Todd Ruston, Mike McCann From: Video Lab staff Standard Definition vs. High Definition Frame Grabs The issue of upgrading the shipboard frame ...
Home
500049 Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS) Index Video TAG Video Format Notes Containers and Codecs For Users Installation instructions Installation FAQ User FAQ For VideoLab Video Lab Deepsea Guide VAAP:Home Video and Data ...

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Installation
Linux Installation Mac OS X Installation Windows Installation

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JPA Knowledgebase
Use Cases ConceptName Insert # Does a duplicate name already exist? # Don't need to worry. JPA will throw an exception since it's a unique column. # Is it a primary name? Only 1 primary name per concept is allowed. ## Is there another primary ...

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Linux Installation
Prerequisites In order for VARS to run on your system you will need to install Java 5.0 http://www.java.com or a more recent version of Java. VARS will not run on Java 1.4. Also, the Annotation application requires QuickTime for Java http://www.apple.com/quicktime ...

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Mac OS X Installation
Prerequisites For most VARS use you do not need to install any additional software on Mac OS X. However, in order to fully utilize the Annotation application you will need to install a serial port adapter. Detailed Instructions The following steps ...
Manually merge a dive
1. For Macs, open a Terminal (On PC's use Putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/sgtatham/putty/) 2. ssh vicki@seaspray (enter secret password) 3. cd /opt/vars/bin 4. ./divemerge vehicle dive trueorfalse (true for HD, false ...

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Re-run framegrab processing for a dive
1. For Macs, open a Terminal (On PC's use Putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/sgtatham/putty/) 2. ssh vicki@seaspray (enter secret password) 3. example: vfcbydive tibr 930 930
Releases
VARS Releases at MBARI VARS 4.2.0 \ Release date: 20070803 VARS 3.1.0 \ Release date: 20070201 VARS 3.0.1 \ Release date: 20061204 VARS 3.0.0 \ Release date: 20061201

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Seaspray
About seaspray.shore.mbari.org Seaspray http://seaspray.shore.mbari.org is the server used to serve the VARS internal web pages, host the VARS JNLP applications, and run the scripts used for supporting VARS. It also supports several web applications at http://seaspray.shore.mbari.org:8080/dsg/home ...
Solstice
About Solstice Solistice hosts the MS SQL Server for the Shore VARS database About Oxygen From rich: Primary is o2 (seabird sensor) Secondary is o2alt (optode) Flags... 0=bad, 1=suspect, 2='loaded by perl', 3 ...
Source Code
About Subversion SVN (Subversion) is a tool used by many software developers to manage changes within their source code tree. SVN provides the means to store not only the current version of a piece of source code, but a record of all changes (and who made ...
SQL Examples
SQL Scripts Scripts that have been used with VARS can be found in the source code repository http://moonjelly.shore.mbari.org/cgibin/cvsweb.cgi/varsmbari/src/main/database/sqlserver/ Examples Inputs Fragments of the image URL Outputs The datetime that the image was taken ...
Sundog
About sundog.shore.mbari.org Sundog hosts the externally accessible IIS web server, VARS applications and MS SQL Server 2008 that hosts the external VARS database. It also hosts Glassfish 2.1 at http://dsg.mbari.org:8080/. Sundog has been aliased ...

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Tienhou
About tienhou.shore.mbari.org Tienhou http://tienhou.shore.mbari.org/vars is the server used to serve the VARS internal web pages, host the VARS JNLP applications, and run the scripts used for supporting VARS. Installing VARS on Tienhou VARS is installed on Tienhou as a standalone application ...

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Ulikai
About Ulikai.shore.mbari.org Ulikai is a VM (Fedora) configured with 9GB RAM and access to a larger than normal share of CPU power. It is used to run video annotation processing tasks that are too resource intensive for standard VM configurations. The processing is run under ...
User FAQ
Questions Where does VARS get the camera data from? #Q1 How does VARS handle framecapture? #Q2 How do I upgrade Java? #Q3 Answers Q: Where does VARS get the camera data from ...

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VARS 3.0.0
Release Highlights The Annotation App now uses RXTX http://www.rxtx.org instead of javax.comm http://java.sun.com/products/javacomm/ for serial communications All applications will be deployed using Java Web Start rather than installers. A Beta version of the Knowledgebase ...
VARS 3.0.1
Release Highlights Bug fix release This release corresponds to version 1.0.5 at http://vars.sourceforge.net Resolved Issues
VARS 3.1.0
Release Highlights Resolving issues with the Knowledgebase application This release corresponds to version 3.1.0 at http://vars.sourceforge.net Built using MBARI SVN Revision: 40, Sourceforge SVN Revision: 466 Resolved Issues
VARS 4.2.0
Release Highlights Initial (alpha) support for annotating QuickTime movies. Resolving issues with the Knowledgebase application This release corresponds to version 4.2.0 at http://vars.sourceforge.net Built using Sourceforge SVN Revision: 558 Resolved Issues Resolved Issues for version 4.1 ...
VARS Data Mining
Developer Notes Deliverable to Microsoft guys Benthic Annotation Database Verifying Altitudes Benthic Results Depth distribution analysis Created a script to run the depth distributions of VARS data. There are 2 scripts in the vdmtools project in the MBARI SVN repository. The scripts ...
VARS JPA
VARS ObjectRelational Mapping using Java Persistence API (JPA) Implementation I'm writing and implementation at http://code.google.com/p/varsredux/ Use Cases JPA Knowledgebase JPA Annotation Future Work For future work there are a several considerations: Support videofiles ...
VARS-PL
About varspl.pl.mbari.org VARSPL is the computer on the R/V Point Lobos used for running VARS VARS is launched via Java Web Start on VARSPL. Each application has a correspoding desktop shortcut and start menu item; they should appear as reqular ...
VARS-WF
About varswf.wf.mbari.org VARSWF is the computer on the R/V Western Flyer used for running VARS VARS is launched via Java Web Start on VARSWF. Each application has a correspoding desktop shortcut and start menu item; they should appear as reqular ...
Varspub
About varspub.mbari.org Varspub hosts the externally accessible IIS web server, VARS applications and MS SQL Server that hosts the external VARS database. Embargoed Data There is a DTS Package, 'Update VARSExternal on VARSPUB', on Solstice used to copy annotations out ...
Verifying Altitudes
Steps for verifying altitudes # Export the altitudes and positions from the VARSBenthic database ## Build vdmtools ## Extract the built archive ## {{cd $VDMTOOLSHOME/bin}} ## {{sh ../scripts/groovy/runQuery.groovy >> allAnnotations.txt}} ## Edit any extraneous log messages of off the top of the file ...
Verifying last date of successful merge
1. For Macs, open a Terminal (On PC's use Putty http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/sgtatham/putty/) 2. ssh seaspray 3. cd /opt/vars/bin 4. ./lookupmergestatus Examples: ./lookupmergestatus Tiburon 775 ./lookupmergestatus "Doc Ricketts ...
Video and Data Diagram
Meeting to discuss the big picture of video data flow In attendance, brian, schlin, rich, mccann, linda, lonny and jana We created a digram that outlines the who, what, where and when of the data flow and processing. Below are a picture of our notes ...
Video Lab
Deepsea Guide HD vs SD Frame Capture

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Windows Installation
Prerequisites In order for VARS to run on your system you will need to install Java 5.0 http://www.java.com or a more recent version of Java. VARS will not run on Java 1.4. Also, the annotation application will not run unless QuickTime for Java http://www.apple.com ...

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