Workshop
2nd Sumover Mbone tools Workshop:
15-16 January 2007, Computer Science Department, University College
London, UK.
The goal of this workshop is to continue on from the last workshop. During the first workshop we jointly put together a plan of action, the main points of which have been met by the project. See the previous workshop report for details.
Here is a brief summary of what has been done under the SUMOVER project
so far:
- Set up a Trac/Subversion code management system, with LDAP user
management. Provides for ease of access to code and information, and is
also in use by other projects.
- New features of VIC have been added; including the new logo sending
feature, new windows DirectX capture driver (now shipping in AG3 version
of tools), Rhys' H261as codec, the new Windows installer, Source
Specific Multicast (SSM) support, and various compilation fixes and
updates. There are also a number new features in development from Barz
Hsu (NCHC), and Rhys Hawkins (ANU) including new H.264, MPEG4, and DV
codecs.
- New features of RAT including; new address bar GUI element, new
security icon to indicate encrypted streams, new Windows installer, and
various compilation fixes and updates.
- Various dissemination events on the project, including at AG-retreat
2006, OSS2006, AHM2006.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together the key people in the
projects that are using the tools and continue to work together on a
plan for their future support and development. We are looking for your
input on what is seen as the most important potential work and
development required on the tools from now on. Our basic plan consists
of continuing to stabilise and add new key features to the tools and
liasing with AccessGrid to have the tools integrated into their
releases. We plan to continue to work with the community and enhance
sustainability.
Meeting Information
Location:
Meeting Room: 6.12 (6th Floor), Computer Science Department, Mallet
Place Engineering Building. For how to get here, hotels, and general
London info see here.
Virtual Meeting Details: The workshop will hosted online at the Manchester Venue server (Thanks to AGSC) - their website: http://www.agsc.ja.net/venues.php. Here are the AccessGrid URI's - which you need to copy/type in the AG client:
AG3 URI: https://sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk:8000/Venues/default
AG2 URI: https://ag2server.ag.manchester.ac.uk:8000/Venues/default
Specifically we will use the Shakespeare room which is part of the
"UK Shared Virtual Venues", (there is also a unicast bridge). The multicast
addresses are:
Audio: rat 233.3.18.43/57004
Video: vic 233.3.18.43/57006
If you're connecting using AG3 you will automatically be connected to the Shakespeare Jabber room. However if you connect using AG2 then you can connect to the Shakespeare Jabber room using a Jabber capable applications (eg. PSI, Gaim, etc) at: shakespeare(sam.ag.manchester.ac.uk)@conference.mcs.anl.gov. For details on joining see:
ANL or AGSC
Agenda
The presentations may be found here.
Monday 15th January
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Meeting start: Sumover status update
11:30 Software management systems
12:00 Presentation from Colin Perkins (AVT WorkGroup chair) on IETF activities
12:30 Buffet lunch
14:00 RAT
15:00 Coffee
15:30 VIC
- Presentation from Barz Hzu (NCHC)
16:30 [?]Talk by Tom Uram (ANL - AG Tech lead)
17:00 Future
- Project plan
- New features (e.g. DCCP support, new codecs, SRTP etc)
18:00 day end
Tuesday 16th January
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Open discussion on future
11:30 Optional tool dev session
The current list of participants:
