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

[Michael E. Papka]

Dave,

If this is using OpenGL texture mapping, I'm curious how this would 
work on chromium accelerated DMX, can you suck it down and try it on 
the AM?

thanks
Mike

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Thomas D. Uram" <turam at mcs.anl.gov>
> Date: March 3, 2004 8:08:24 AM CST
> To: Robert Olson <olson at mcs.anl.gov>
> Cc: "Michael E. Papka" <papka at mcs.anl.gov>, ag-dev at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [AG-TECH] Announce: VP - a replacement for vic
>
>  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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