Fwd: [AG-TECH] Announce: VP - a replacement for vic

[Robert Olson]

I tried it out on my laptop. It still needs some work, but looks to be a 
promising tool. It has some performance problems, and the interface for 
manipulating the video streams isn't necessarily intuitive yet, but they've 
done some really nice work.

--bob

At 05:32 AM 3/3/2004, Michael E. Papka wrote:
>Have we looked at this?
>
>Mike
>
>Begin forwarded message:
>
>>From: Markus Buchhorn <Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au>
>>Date: February 29, 2004 9:20:10 PM CST
>>To: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov, accessgrid-l at grangenet.net
>>Cc: mcmullen at indiana.edu, bdr at internet2.edu, jongwon at netmedia.kjist.ac.kr
>>Subject: [AG-TECH] Announce: VP - a replacement for vic
>>
>>
>>Hi all
>>
>>We're pleased (or mad enough) to announce our first public release of VP. 
>>This is a tool designed to replace vic on the AG display machine (in the 
>>first instance) and on desktops, to make AG display management a lot 
>>easier, and the user interface a lot friendlier.
>>
>>This release is a preview release (0.6) so it has a lot of warts. OTOH it 
>>has sufficient core functionality that it is worth trying out, and it 
>>doesn't crash (unless ...).
>>
>>VP is available at
>>
>><http://if.anu.edu.au/SW/VP.html>http://if.anu.edu.au/SW/VP.html
>>
>>VP has the following main features:
>>- site grouping, site management, display management
>>- smooth (any size) display scaling in opengl (on hardware)
>>- ports to Linux and Windows (MacOSX and FreeBSD coming)
>>- a capture application is coming
>>- early DV capability on top of h.261, and more codecs to come.
>>- it's a drop-in replacement for vic on AG2 (and AG1?)
>>- a long roadmap of features to scale performance and functionality, 
>>including several audio features, integration with several other tools we 
>>are working on, as well as a (network) remote miniature console
>>
>>We're looking for people to help test it, suggest ideas, 
>>comment/critique, and contribute code. Some people have already expressed 
>>interest in developing enhancements, such as more/better codecs, as well 
>>as associated projects.
>>
>>Please try it out and let us know!
>>
>>Cheers,
>>         Markus
>>
>>Markus Buchhorn, ANU Internet Futures Group,       |Ph: +61 2 61258810
>>Markus.Buchhorn at anu.edu.au, mail: Bldg #108 CS&IT  |Fx: +61 2 61259805
>>Australian National University, Canberra 0200 Aust.|Mob: 0417 281429
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