From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 14:11:01 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA29455 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:11:01 -0800 Received: from plains.nodak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA29449; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 14:11:00 -0800 Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.6.11/8.6.10) id QAA08162; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 16:09:04 -0600 Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 16:09:04 -0600 From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199503282209.QAA08162@plains.nodak.edu> To: cacho@eureka.gdl.iteso.mx, jkh@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Interop Cc: hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, hasty@star-gate.com Content-Length: 1067 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Fri, 24 Mar 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > May I suggest that run vat and vic .... > > > > I wasn't really thinking of an Internet connection since those happen > > to cost a _fortune_ at Comdex! It's a possibility, but for now I'm going > > to focus on stand-alone demos.. :-) > > > > Jordan > > But a stand-alone demo could use a networking stand-alone demo! > That is, I don't know if vat and friends _need_ the internet to work, or > you can run them over a local ethernet on freebsd. vat, nv, wb all have "record" and "replay" applications that let a person record/play a multicast session to/from disk. unfortunately there is no ability to syncronize the playing of vat with nv and/or wb. the mbone (anything to do with conferencing) is a good selling feature. FreeBSD can now be the MBONE participant and MBONE router. It sounds from reading freebsd mail there is getting more interest in conferencing, and with more support of video capture cards, FreeBSD is a very cost effective way to join the conferencing craze.