PIG

[Ivan R. Judson]

I think the basic reason is we're trying to move from UCL to OM. Since
OM has the latest history of support (although that's scaling back
towards zero too).  The OM stuff is supposed to be getting H.263 decode
any time now; and they have made a lot of changes specifically for us,
including an interface for autolayout stuff.

Depending on what Larry says about encryption it might make sense to
still include both (but a single UCL version if we can) while we figure
out the right thing to do in the long run. Media tools seem to be not
the project of choice for funding now; we might have to support them
ourselves until funding reappears, if our platform choices require it.

The commercial argument is performance, but if we have to trade-off
options I'd lean towards Quicktime since it works on linux, macs, and
windows, whereas direct * stuff is windows only. Real isn't a codec
system, rather content delivery so they don't play in this game
directly.

I'd still prefer the open source stuff and OM in particular, but
whatever we gotta do let's optimize for our own cycle count first :-)

--Ivan

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov 
> [mailto:owner-ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Terry Disz
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:45 PM
> To: Ti Leggett
> Cc: Ag-Dev at Mcs. Anl. Gov
> Subject: RE: PIG
> 
> 
> Anyone know about this for sure? Which VIC goes out with 
> Windows PIG? If it is OM, why can't it be UCL?
> 
> Terry
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ti Leggett [mailto:leggett at mcs.anl.gov]
> > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 11:56 AM
> > To: Terry Disz
> > Cc: Ag-Dev at Mcs. Anl. Gov
> > Subject: Re: PIG
> >
> >
> > I think we only use UCL vic for the linux pig, the windows 
> pig we have 
> > to use OM for some reason or another...?
> >
> > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 13:39, Terry Disz wrote:
> > > Last week in Washington Mary Anne said she would like a PIG
> > system for her
> > > office and asked if I would supply her with the 
> requirements. As I 
> > > was getting ready to do so, the issue of the OM vic not doing
> > encryption came up
> > > on AG-TECH.
> > >
> > > I can't send her something that doesn't work securely in a
> > secure room, so,
> > > I am wondering what the latest thoughts on this situation are.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where we stand right now?
> > >
> > > Are there any plans to a) add encryption to OM or b) 
> supply UCL vic 
> > > with PIG?
> > >
> > > Terry
> > --
> > Ti Leggett <leggett at mcs.anl.gov>
> >
>