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

[Markus Buchhorn]

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