[AG-TECH] vic and rat on MAC?

John Shalf jshalf at lbl.gov
Fri Oct 4 15:46:21 CDT 2002


On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 01:32  PM, Colin Perkins wrote:

> --> John Shalf writes:
>>
>> I did notice the H.261 codec in quicktime, but don't see an obvious way
>> to connect to a host/port (particularly multicast) on the net?  I take
>> it you know the secret incantation for this?
>
> No, I just talked to some folks at Apple, who claimed to have tested
> QuickTime with rat/vic. Can it not listen for SAP announcements?

It might, but I have no idea how to make it do so.  The MacTV 
application could do this with this funkly little SDR-like tool.  
However, AG isn't doing the SAP thing.  Gotta have a way to specify the 
host/port for the connection.  Again, the codec is clearly there for 
quicktime, but not clear how to get it to connect into a multicast group 
so that we can make use of said codec.  I'm hoping that there is either 
a vic port *or* someone wrote a Quicktime-based vic replacement that 
doesn't suck.

-john




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