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Craig Dewick wrote:

> In <82j2s1$o79$1@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> laird@pier.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>
> >I've been trying to find a decent videoconferencing
> >app for our Suns for years.  I finally found
> >SunForum awhile ago, but when we got it I found
> >that it didn't handle video.
>
> >Now I see that it does
> >       http://www.sun.com/desktop/products/software/sunforum/
> >but it appears to only work with the new SunVideo
> >*Plus* (PCI) card.
>
> >Does this mean that Sun is dropping SunVideo (SBus)
> >card support?
>
> I don't think it's dropped in Solaris [2.]8 (aka SunOS 5.8), but it might be
> in Solaris [2.]9 (tentatively known as SunOS 5.8.1 I believe). Sun also have
> a PCI version called the SunVideo+ which works in the Ultrasparc machines..
>
> >(I'm already moving to Linux after frustration over
> >hardware support under Solaris.  Maybe this will
> >help convince others at work to do the same.)
>
> Sun doesn't provide much software for the SunVideo cards, but there are
> shareware and freeware 3rd-party applications which use it. One of the best
> is 'vic', a videoconferencing package originally put together by LBL, but
> it's now maintained by UCL in the UK.
>
> Go and check it out at
>
> http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/vic
>
> UCL also maintain other related applications which can be all used together
> to create a complete video/audio conferencing environment (assuming you have
> a fast [read 'ISDN' or similar] network connection).
>
> I've got vic running here on several machines for experimental purposes, and
> it works brilliantly with the SunVideo cards.
>
> Sun provides several demo programs with the SUNWrtvc packages on the Solaris
> release CD's, and they also have the ShowMeTV application on the Solaris
> extensions CD which uses the SunVideo.
>
> If you want to look at other cards that are Sbus SunVideo compatible, go to
> www.mmac.com and look for the Osprey 1100. This card is software-compatible
> with the original SunVideo from Sun, and adds audio support, but they are
> pricey - about US$1500 each last time I checked! The same place also makes
> PCI SunVideo+ compatible cards.
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
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Take a look at  IVS and Rendevous .

http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/ivs.html