MBone Tools by application & platform

Caveats: No guarantee is offered that these links still exist, or that they even lead to the stated tools. Other platforms are supported for some tools, e.g. Ultrix, BSDi, FreeBSD. Versions listed may not be the most recent.

See (more recent) www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software

This page created 1997-11-14

These tools allow viewing (and in many cases joining) multicast conferences on the Internet MBone

Recording & Playback Tools

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	HP-UX	Linux	Source	Docs
wrtp	v0.1	v0.1	v0.1	v0.1	v0.1		v0.1
RTP Tools						v1.9	v1.9
MBone-VCR		v1.4a02	v1.4a02		v1.4a02	v1.4a02
rtp_record						v1.5
record_session						[X]	[X]
vat_nv_record			v13			v13	v13

vat_nv_record contains wb_record, wb_play; wb still uses UDP. Rat, Vat, Vic now use RTP so wrtp, rtptools are more appropriate.

Session Manager

Note: sd is considered obsolete

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	OS/F	HP-UX	Linux	Win95	BSD	Source	Docs
sdr	v2.3	2.3	2.3	2.2	2.3	2.3	2.4	2.2	2.3a1	[X]
sd	X	1.19	1.18		X	1.17			[X]
multikit	[X]	[X]				[X]	[X]	[X]		[X]
icast							yes
sd-listen									[X]

Whiteboard

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	OS/F	HP-UX	Linux	Win95	BSD	Source	Docs
wb	1.60	1.60	1.59	1.59	1.59	1.59	[x]	1.59		[X]

Audio

Current broadcasts use the RTP protocol, unsupported in older versions of tools.

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	OS/F	HP-UX	Linux	Win95	BSD	Source	Docs
vat	[X]	[X]	[X]	[X]	[X]	[X]	4.0b2	4.0b1	4.0	alpha
Rat	3.0.23	3.0.23	3.0.23		3.0.23	3.0.23	3.0.23	3.0.23	3.0.23	man
nevot	3.32	3.32	3.32		3.32					[X]
FPhone		3.2	5.3			3.0

Video

/cap indicates that video capture is supported.

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	OS/F	HP-UX	Linux	Win95	BSD	Source	Docs
vic	2.8/cap	2.8/cap	2.8/cap	2.8/cap	2.8/cap	2.6/cap	2.7b3, 2.8/cap	2.8/cap	2.8	[X]
nv	3.3/cap	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.3	3.3		3.3	3.3
ivs	3.6a/cap	3.6a/cap	3.6a/cap	yes	yes/cap	yes/cap		yes	3.6a

Utilities

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	OS/F	HP-UX	Linux	Win95	BSD	Source	Docs
mrouted	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8		3.8	3.8
mtrace	5.1	5.1	5.1						5.1

Text

Homepage	SunOS	Solaris	Irix	OS/F	HP-UX	Linux	Win95	BSD	Source	Docs
NT	1.5a	1.5a	1.5a		1.5a	1.5a	1.5a		1.5a23
Mumble	[x]	[x]	[x]			[x]			[x]

MBone Links

There are many good pages.

Mbone links by Thierry Turletti (Inria)
Index of MBone Software by Category (Merit.edu)
Index of Binaries by Platform (Merit.edu)
CERN MBone app.s archive
mbone.com
Marcus; Windows page

Mbone at TRIUMF

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Andrew Daviel