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diff --git a/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/AVStreams/mpeg/README b/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/AVStreams/mpeg/README deleted file mode 100644 index 26a835dac7f..00000000000 --- a/TAO/orbsvcs/tests/AVStreams/mpeg/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,142 +0,0 @@ - Distributed real-time MPEG video audio player v2.0 - - Distributed Systems Research Group - Department of Computer Science and Engineering - Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology - November, 1995 - - -This directory contains a freely available software distributed -real-time MPEG video and audio player, for use across the -Internet. Please install it, run it, play movies and music, and have -fun ! - -The player features common VCR functionalities like synchronized video -and audio play back, play speed change on the fly, fast-forward, rewind, -step forward, random Positioning, and more. - -This version of the player plays MPEG1 video (elementary stream) and -Sun Sparc format (mu-law) audio. It does not play MPEG1 system streams -or MPEG2 streams yet. - -The player is of server/client architecture, with audio/video servers -and a client distributed across the Internet. The server manages audio -video file retrieval and distribution. The client decodes video -frames, plays video and audio streams, and provides a Motif style user -interface. - -The servers stream out media data to clients, so there is NO NEED to -download all bits beforehand. - -Some important characteristics of Internet are resource sharing, -highly dynamic workload, no resource reservation facility, and lack of -a common clock. This player uses novel software feedback mechanisms -to synchronize servers and clients, and to adapt playback quality to -the current Internet workload. - - -As compared to version 1.0, this version has following improvements: - - - UDP/TCP video audio data connection choice - - support of both native audio device and AudioFile - - client invocable from web browser - - better organized source code tree - - bug fix - - and more... - - -The player has been compiled and tested on following architectures: - - HP-UX 09.03 - SunOS 4.1.3_U1 (sparc) - Solaris 2.3 (sparc) - Solaris 2.4 (i86pc) - Solaris 2.4 (sparc) - Ultrix 4.x - FreeBSD 2.0.5 - LINUX 1.3 - -If you decide to port the player to a new architecture, please let -us know so that we can incorporate the changes into our sources. - - -The player is publicly available via anonymous ftp from: - - ftp.cse.ogi.edu (129.29.20.2) in /pub/dsrg/Player/ - -or through following WWW pointer: - - http://cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/synthetix/Player/ - -To install the player, ftp file vcr.tar.Z to local host, move it to a -suitable directory (best to create a new directory for this software), -uncompress and untar the .Z file, and see INSTALL for instructions. -Following is an example of steps to ftp and untar the package: - - % mkdir vcr - % cd vcr - % ftp ftp.cse.ogi.edu - *** login as anonymous and your email address as passwd *** - ftp> cd pub/dsrg/Player - ftp> binary - ftp> get README - ftp> get vcr.tar.Z - ftp> quit - % gunzip vcr.tar.Z (or you may also use 'uncompress vcr.tar.Z') - % tar xf vcr.tar - -Binary code for platforms HPUX, Solaris 2.4 for x86, Solaris 2.x for -Sparc, SunOS4.1.3 and FreeBSD are also available in directory -/pub/dsrg/Player/binaries/. - - -This software is covered by copyrights. It contains code contributed -by the author and several other parties. Please see the beginning of -source files and copyright file(s) in the root directory of the source -tree for more information. - - -Please add yourself to our mailing list by sending a mail (with your -name and address) to following address, so that we can keep you -informed of software upgrade and bug fix. - - scen@cse.ogi.edu - - -We would highly appreciate it if you can share with us the performance -result you get when you play movies retrieved from the OGI -server. Please let us know following information: - - - The platform you use for the client. - - - How many hops from your site to OGI, and what is the - estimated bandwidth, - - - Which picture size (320x240, 256x192, 128x96 or 64x48) - works best for you, and on average how many - frames-per-second can be displayed. - - - Questions, comments, suggestions, and bug report. - -Information can also be sent to: scen@cse.ogi.edu Thank you! - - -ACKNOWLEDGMENT - -We gratefully thank ARPA and the National Science Foundation for their -financial support, and thank Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard and the -Portland Trail Blazers for their donations. - -We also want to thank following people for their code: - - Lawrence A. Rowe, Ketan Patel, and Brian Smith of Computer Science - Division-EECS, Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley. The MPEG decoder used by - the client of the player is originated from their MPEG decoder 2.0 - - Thomas M. Levergood, Andrew C. Payne, James Gettys, G. Winfield - Treese, and Lawrence C. Stewart of Cambridge Research Lab, Digital - Equipment Corporation. The player uses AudioFile as audio output. - - Daeron Meyer of the Geometry Center, University of Minnesota. The - Motif user interface is based on his version. - |