Andrew, This sounds like an incredibly useful application!
I've just installed it on a Personal Node and don't seem to have had any difficulties. I haven't had a chance to actually use it yet, but am looking forward to giving it a test drive. - Jennifer Andrew Patrick wrote: > We are pleased to announce an initial alpha trial release of the Access > Grid > Venue Customizer (AVC). > > AVC is a proof-of-concept shared application for customizing AG virtual > venues. > The premise is that different AG meetings organized to perform different > tasks > should not have the same services and parameters. Instead, some meetings > may > require extra services or different parameter settings. > > AVC allows meeting organizers to select from a set of common tasks (e.g., > business meetings, collaborative work sessions, distance education, > etc.) and > then, when participants enter the venue and run AVC in "user" mode, the > services > and parameters are customized for the task. AVC managers are also able > to create > their own custom tasks. > > AVC is a Shared Application that is compatible with AG 2.3 installations > where > the Venue Client is running on a Windows machine (i.e., Windows PIGs or > multi- > machine nodes with a Windows display machine). AVC is currently not > working with > Linux Venue Clients. > > In this initial release, AVC is able to control the quality and bandwidth > settings of VIC and RAT. AVC has been built, however, to be able to > control a > variety of AG services and shared applications, and this functionality > will be > added in future releases. > > Typical uses for this release of AVC are: > > - configure an important business meeting for the highest possible > audio and > video quality when all participants have high bandwidth > > - configure a distance education event where some students will have > limited > bandwidth to give relatively high priority to video (because of the > visual > materials being used in the lesson), and relatively low priority to audio > > - scale a meeting to take into account the minimum bandwidth available > to the > participants (e.g., someone is connecting from home) > > The software and installation instructions are available at > > http://iit130033.iit.nrc.ca/AVC/index.html > > Please give AVC a try and give us feedback about the software and the > concepts. > > Thanks > > > The AVC development team is: > > At the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa > Andrew Patrick > Kenneth Emig > Janice Singer > Bruno Emond > Khalil El Khatib > Stephen Marsh > Siraj Sabihuddin (student programmer) > Changhua Wu (student programmer) > > At Simon Fraser University, Vancouver > Brian Corrie > Todd Zimmerman > > At the Communications Research Center, Ottawa > Sylvie Noel > > For more information about AVC contact: andrew.patr...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca >
