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

[Thomas D. Uram]

I tried it on my windows desktop.  Apparently, the video is done through 
OpenGL texture mapping; the G400 in my desktop is not sufficient for 
this, so VP saturated the cpu.  They do have some work to do in 
usability, but it looks cool.  The grouping of streams ought to be 
helpful, but it assumes that each site will have one primary stream (the 
others are shown smaller).

Robert Olson wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>> 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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