Rendezvous

Name:

Rendezvous

Version:

May 1997

Description:

Rendez-Vous is new Internet videoconferencing tool developed at INRIA by Frank Lyonnet. It is in a way the successor to the IVS tool developed some time ago by Thierry Turletti, which was one of the first MBone tools available (however it is a completely new piece of code compared to IVS). The audio component of Rendez-Vous is an integration of the application kernel of the FreePhone new audio tool developped also at INRIA by Andres Vega Garcia.

Organization:

INRIA, Rodeo project

WWW:

http://www.gaia-interactive.com/rv/

Audio encodings:

PCMU, ADPCM, VADPCM, GSM, LPC; with redundancy and rate adaptation

Video encodings:

MPEG 1, MPEG 2

Network:

IP multicast/unicast

Platforms:

Sun Solaris (SunVideo, VigraPix), SGI Irix, Linux (receive only), FreeBSD (receive only), DEC OSF1 (receive only), Windows'95 (video receive only), Windows NT (x86) (video receive only)

RTP Status:

RFC 1889, RFC 1890

Availability:

beta, source

Download:

http://zenon.inria.fr/rodeo/rv/Releases/