Grabber support for Videoconferencing Tools for MBONE is available on Windows now .

The mbone tools have been ported to run on Windows 95 and Windows NT!

Original versions have been ported by John Brezak of HP and Van Jacobson of Lawrence Berkeley Labs. For more information about vic look at the vic home page. Our versions extends their capabilities by adding:

video for windows compatible capture driver support for vic - added by Amir Jantimirov. ( how he made it )
bug fixed for complete full-duplex support for vat. (for full-duplex soundcards) - by Vladimir Sadov.

Binaries are in vicvat.zip, next to this file.

Before you download the code and expect to run it, please note:

These is beta release.
Routing of MBONE packets to your local network is required! Talk to your network manager/provider/admin - the routing may already be set up to receive mbone packets, or they will have set it up for you.

Run:

Vat and vic can be run from command line or DOS session with the parameters [IP address]/[Port number]. Alternately, the session directory tool (sdr) can list the active mbone sessions and automatically launch vat and vic for you.

Tested hardware:

VideoTizer
Color QuickCam by Connectix

Any comments and results of testing of our software with another hardware please send to us

Another links:

Another attempts at getting vic to capture was made by Isidor Kouvelas. Commercial MBONE software is available from Precept Software. Their tools are intended for the TV metaphor - you can't use them for conferencing. Similar commercial software is available from ICAST Communcations.

For more information regarding mbone, see:

Acknowledgments

We would like to thank John Brezak for making original porting of mbone tools.

This work has been supported by Academgorodok Internet Project . Personal acknowledgments to Sam Musher , director of Academgorodok Internet Project

Feedback:

Send feedback to Vladimir Sadov and Amir Jantimirov.