For those who wish to download the source code for VP (for building on linux for example), please download the latest librtp from the following link instead of the page listed in Markus's original email:
http://if.anu.edu.au/download/VP-0.8/librtp-0.8.tar.gz Unfortunately, the link on the main page was not updated correctly. Cheers, Rhys On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 09:41, Markus Buchhorn wrote: > Hi all > > We're happy to announce the latest release of VP, 0.8, a major update. This > is also the first official release that includes a package for the Mac as > well Linux and Windows, and we will continue to offer this down the track. > > For the new people, VP is a replacement for vic on the display machine. It > automates a lot of the display management, and simplifies the layout of > multiple streams from multiple sites. In theory, once configured for your > node, you can jump between venues, change the number of participants, etc. > and the node operator doesn't have to do anything with the display layout, VP > does it all for you. > > 0.8 is a major update of the user interface, and the code underneath. There > are several new features (keyboard shortcuts, more tunable configuration > parameters, colours :-), more and better layouts and more) as well as making > it dramatically easier to add new codes for new styles of displays and > layouts. You can write your own (small) python script to create a new kind of > site-tile layout, or entire display layout. > > There's also a VPVideoConsumerService (thank to Tom Uram). > > VP also supports DV out of the box, which we've tested with DVTS. We'd > appreciate more people looking at this and giving us feedback (or code :-) ). > Performance under Win32 isn't ideal yet, but improving. We're working towards > having a wide range of codecs supported within VP, to provide a single UI > regardless of content generators (vic, DVTS, UltraGrid, vbrick, ncast, ...). > > Lots more features are coming, see the webpage. Requests and suggestions are > always welcome (some have made their way into VP). > > Comments to v...@if.anu.edu.au please (I'm away from email for a week as of > today). > > http://if.anu.edu.au/SW/VP.html > > Cheers, > Markus > > Markus Buchhorn, ANU Internet Futures |Ph: +61 2 61258810 > markus.buchh...@anu.edu.au |Fx: +61 2 61259805 > The Australian National University, Canberra 0200 |Mob: 0417 281429
