Re: Mash 5.2 testing request

[Lloyd Lim <lim@bmrc.berkeley.edu>]

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 09:36 am, Ivan R. Judson wrote:
>
>I've done this on my desktop dual monitor setup.
>
>The results according to your 4 points are:
>
>1. DirectDraw works, reporting version 3.0.
>2. Multiple monitors working.
>3. RTPtv stream working, looks great.
>4. Auto place works, [...]

Great, thanks!  We'll be a little more confident when more people 
report in, and especially when people try it on Access Grid setups.

> with one caveat (which may be a simple option
> thing) - it places all the video streams on the screen.  This is
> great, except for the case of more video streams than screen space. 
> Is there a way to say, "just give me one screens worth" of auto
> place?

I'll have to talk with Wes about this.  Maybe we can come up with 
something.

The default, built-in autoplace function is just supposed to provide 
basic functionality.  The intention was that if users wanted a more 
sophisticated autoplace function, then they could write their own using 
the hooks that we provided.  So we don't want to make the default 
autoplace code long and complicated.

That said, I agree that it can be a pain with lots of streams.  (I 
tried it with one of the Access Grid sessions the other day.)

>Perhaps don't auto place muted streams?

This is a good idea that we can easily do.  Wes is always looking for 
something to do...   :)

Anyone else have any other clean, simple ideas on how autoplace could 
deal with a session with a million video streams?

(If you haven't seen it, the code that Wes wrote is rather 
well-behaved.  When autoplace runs out of room, it starts again from 
the beginning and stacks the additional windows on top, neatly 
staggered.  He did a great job.)

Lloyd