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RTP RFC 1889/1890 Implementations

The applications below claim to implement RFC 1889 and 1890. Some are based on a somewhat earlier Internet draft and may use incompatible RTCP messages. See Section sec:library for a discussion of RTP implementations.

bat

Name:
bat
Version:
0.1 (August 1995)
Description:
network audio conferencing/telephony tool
Contact:
Amancio Hasty Jr.
WWW:
--
Organization:
Star Gate
Email:
hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Platform:
FreeBSD
Video encodings:
--
Audio encodings:
PCMU, GSM
RTP Status:
March 1995 (v.2)
Availability:
source
ftp:
contact author

FlashWare

Name:
FlashWare
Version:
Beta
Description:
general purpose multimedia networking software (middleware), PC MBONE viewer
Contact:
info@precept.com
WWW:
www.precept.com
Organization:
Precept Software, Inc.
Email:
info@precept.com
Platform:
PC (Windows 3.11)
Video encodings:
H.261 or any Video for Windows codec (e.g., Indeo)
Audio encodings:
Linear 8-bit, PCMU (DVI, GSM planned)
Multicast:
IP multicast
RTP Status:
RFC 1889
Availability:
Beta January 1996; FCS March, 1996

IP/TV

Name:
IP/TV
Version:
Beta
Description:
Application for audio/video broadcasting over IP networks, PC MBONE viewer
Contact:
info@precept.com
WWW:
www.precept.com
Organization:
Precept Software, Inc.
Email:
info@precept.com
Platform:
PC (Windows 3.11)
Video encodings:
H.261 or any Video for Windows codec (e.g., Indeo)
Audio encodings:
Linear 8-bit, PCMU (DVI, GSM planned)
Multicast:
IP multicast
Monitoring:
display of own and other participants loss rates
RTP Status:
RFC 1889
Availability:
Beta February 1996; FCS April, 1996

MBone VCR

Name:
MBone VCR
Version:
1.2a03
Description:
record and playback RTPv2, RTPv1, vat packets
Contact:
Wieland Holfelder
WWW:
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/mbone-vcr/
Organization:
ICSI
Email:
whd@pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de
Platform:
Sun (4.1.3, Solaris 2), SGI (Irix 5.3), DEC (OSF/1.2)
Video encodings:
any
Audio encodings:
any
Multicast:
IP multicast
RTP Status:
RTPv2, RTPv1, vat
Availability:
source, binary
ftp:
ftp://pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/pub/mbone/vcr/,
ftp://ftp.icsi.berkeley.edu/pub/tenet/mbone-vcr/

NeVoT

Name:
NeVoT
Version:
3.34 (December 1995)
Description:
network audio conferencing/telephony tool
Contact:
Henning Schulzrinne
WWW:
www.fokus.gmd.de/step/hgs/nevot
Organization:
Univ. of Massachusetts, AT&T Bell Laboratories, GMD Fokus
Email:
schulzrinne@fokus.gmd.de
Platform:
Sun (4.1.3, Solaris 2), SGI, HP, IBM, DEC; Linux (in progress)
Video encodings:
--
Audio encodings:
LPC, DVI4, GSM, PCMU, L16
Multicast:
IP multicast (unlimited number of participants)
Conference Control:
through PMM control bus (floor control, invitations) and sd
Monitoring:
statistics for loss, delay and delay variation of audio from other participants
RTP Status:
RFC 1889
Availability:
source, binary
ftp:
ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/step/nevot/,
gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/hgschulz/nevot/

rtpdump

Name:
rtpdump
Version:
1.0 (December 1994)
Description:
display/decode RTP packets
Organization:
GMD Fokus
Contact:
Henning Schulzrinne
Email:
hgs@fokus.gmd.de
Platform:
workstations with or without multicast support
RTP Status:
RTPv2 (November 1995)
Availability:
source
ftp:
gaia.cs.umass.edu/pub/hgschulz/rtpdump/

RTP Library

Name:
unknown
Version:
0.6.1b
Description:
RTP library, not coupled with an application
Contact:
Mastromartino E. A. Fantoni
Email:
fantoni@iasi.rm.cnr.it
Platform:
DEC OSF/1 v3.2, Solaris 2.3
Video encodings:
MPEG, CellB (planned)
Audio encodings:
MPEG (planned)
RTP Status:
March 1995 (v.2)
Availability:
C++ source code (at your own risk)

vat

Version:
4.0a* (alpha)
Description:
network audio conferencing tool
Organization:
LBNL
Contact:
Steve McCanne
Email:
vat@ee.lbl.gov
Platforms:
DEC, HP, Linux, SGI, SunOS, Solaris
Audio encodings:
LPC, GSM, DVI4, PCMU
Video encodings:
--
RTP Status:
RFC 1889
Availability:
source, binary
ftp:
ftp.ee.lbl.gov/conferencing/vat/alpha_test

vic

Name:
vic
Version:
2.7alpha (2.6 uses older version of H.261 payload format)
Description:
network video conferencing tool
Organization:
LBNL
Contact:
Steve McCanne
Email:
vic@ee.lbl.gov
Platforms:
DEC, HP, Linux, SGI, SunOS, Solaris
Codec:
Sun VideoPix, SunVideo (Sun Solaris), ?
Video encodings:
nv, H261, CELB, SCR, MPEG, JPEG
Audio encodings:
--
Availability:
source, binary
ftp:
ftp.ee.lbl.gov/conferencing/vic
RTP Status:
RFC 1889


Henning Schulzrinne