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mStar is now commercially available from
Marratech AB
by the name of Marratech Pro
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The mStar environment consists of a number of tool to acomplish functions such
as desktop video and audio, shared whiteboard, distributed presentations,
chat, voting.
mStar is compatible with many
public domain tools, e.g.,
vic (video) and vat (audio), the since long
well tested members of IP multicasting family.
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Session information.
mSD
is a web based session directory that shows
current sessions. It could be used to launch any of
the sessions. mSD is compatible with sdr.
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Audio.
mAudio
provides the audio. Intelligent treatment of packet
losses improves perceived quality. vat compatible. To support
layered encoding and semi-reliable multicasting.
mAudio is vat compatible.
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Video.
Integrates the public domain and well tested "vic"
application.
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Whiteboard.
mWB
is a shared whiteboard with drawing and document presentation,
telepointers, mini-views, layers, etc.
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Chat.
mChat
enables the user to talk to other members via keyboard.
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Distributed presentations.
Using Web based presentations,
mWeb
provides
synchronization of web-browsers in a multicast sessions.
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Voting.
mVote
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allows a user to define questions and voting
alternatives for on-line voting with immediate graphic visualization.
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Floor control and attention making.
The mWave tool
presents and administers a list of people who want attention, ("waving their hands").
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Application Sharing.
mShare - integration of the JointX application sharing system
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Integrated desktop.
mDesk
is packaging of the tools providing for common look
and feel and smooth integration.
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Recording and Media-on-Demand.
mMOD
records and plays back all traffic on specified multicast
channels, (that is, not only audio and video, but all data tools
used).
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Session editing.
The mEdit application allows
for indexing, editing, and annotation of recorded sessions.
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Network adaptions.
mTunnel,
transfers multicast traffic over unicast "links",
with format conversion, media scaling, and mixing. Example usage
is ISDN or modem links.
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Presentation authoring.
SlideBurster,
makes it easy to produce material
for distributed presentations.
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Camera control.
mDirector
is a software package
for "point-in-picture" based remote control of video cameras and
switches.
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Application launcher.
mLaunch
launches tools from a web page.
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Extensive class libraries.
Java Class libraries provides framework for fast
tool construction, /TMP.
All CDT mStar software is implemented in Java.
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