[AG-TECH] Open Mash still in process?

[Randy Groves]

Would that include support for Rijndael?

-randy

At 02:12 PM 5/27/2003 -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>Hey,
>
>I believe the last time we discussed this (just at the beginning of our 2.0
>mayhem) we came to the conlusion that the only three items stopping us were:
>
>1) Autoplace:
>
>   I'm having a student work on reproducing the current ag-vic autoplace
>functionality in OM vic so we can compare the two and remove this obstacle.
>
>2) Performance:
>
>   This is less of a show stopper than it sounds, I think the two are within
>10% of each other performance-wise (last time I checked, which was again,
>long ago). We'd like to verify this and make sure that there are no
>gotcha's.
>
>3) Security:
>
>   I'm having the same student build OM with security enabled and verify that
>streams are interoperable (I expect they are). It'd be nice if we got
>security compiled into mash by default.
>
>Other than that, I think it's a matter of us discussing how to move ahead on
>it and we could adopt OM vic very soon.  We're already toying with a
>headless video sender using OM now, to make sending video streams easier.
>
>--Ivan
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > [mailto:owner-ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov] On Behalf Of Andrew Swan
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 2:04 PM
> > To: Randy Groves
> > Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> > Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] Open Mash still in process?
> >
> >
> > Randy Groves wrote:
> > > Is someone still working on OpenMash?  I thought
> > development on this
> > > ended
> > > because of funding.
> >
> > The grants that funded full time staff have ended but there
> > are several students still working actively on various
> > projects.  As far as little bugfixes and keeping up with new
> > OS releases etc. it is at least as well supported as ucl vic :-)
> >
> > Seriously, the {ucl,ag} vic codebase is really pretty close
> > to the mash codebase and it seems wasteful to maintain two
> > separate yet very similar apps.  Ivan mentions a few of the
> > nice mash vic features mash below and in addition, its
> > software jpeg decoder is compatible with rtptv and the h.263
> > codec has been greatly improved recently.
> >
> > > >but specifically if we use OpenMash's vic tool it does a couple of
> > > >things
> > > >nicely, first it has a 's' command key that turns on
> > scroll bars in the
> > > >thumbnail view (yay), and it also has automatic detection
> > of blue/black
> > > >video streams and the option of not displaying them.
> > Further, it has the
> > > >ability to have the autoplacement of video streams be
> > programmatically
> > > >modified (using tcl --ick). However, the biggest drawback
> > is that it
> > > >doesn't have autoplacement working the way our vic does yet.
> >
> > I'm not really familiar with how autoplace works on agvic,
> > can you elaborate Ivan?  And are there any other barriers to
> > wide adoption of open mash vic within ag?
> >
> > -Andrew
> >