Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!guido From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: comp.multimedia Subject: Re: VEX - help please! Summary: VEX is dead - long live MVEX Message-ID: <3158@charon.cwi.nl> Date: 16 Mar 91 20:12:16 GMT References: <1991Mar14.121229.8133@abblund.se> Sender: news@cwi.nl Lines: 26 nick@abblund.se writes: >Can anyone tell me the status of VEX, the proposed Video Extension to X >(X Window System)? I've heard a rumour that it was withdrawn. Is >it still alive? Are there any proposals for video with X at all? Todd Brunhoff at Tektronix, the main character in the VEX development I believe, has more or less accepted defeat, and has turned VEX into MVEX (Minimal Video Extension for X), which is, in his own words: >essentially VEX with some things removed: > - device control > - connectivity >...and a few things added as explicit parts of the protocol that >used to be controls. > - synchronization for RenderVideo, CaptureGraphics and StopVideo > - digitization control, ala hue, brightness, contrast and saturation There is also a competing proposal by David Carver (DEC/Project Athena). There is still a mailing list devoted to X and video (I got the above information from it), but it is rather quiet. I think to subscribe you can send mail to xvideo-request@expo.lcs.mit.edu. --Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam "This is an ex-parrot"