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"Rendez-Vous", the next generation videoconferencing tool.


What is Rendez-Vous ?

Rendez-Vous is new Internet videoconferencing tool developed at INRIA by Frank Lyonnet. It is in a way the successor to the IVS tool developed some time ago by Thierry Turletti, which was one of the first MBone tools available (however it is a completely new piece of code compared to IVS).

The audio component of Rendez-Vous is an integration of the application kernel of the FreePhone 3.5 audio tool developped also at INRIA by Sacha Fosse-Parisis and Andres Vega Garcia.


Main features of Rendez-Vous :


Main advanced features of Rendez-Vous :


Who should care for Rendez-Vous ?

Who should NOT care for Rendez-Vous :

Rendez-Vous is not intended to be commercial product. We, the RODEO team at INRIA are a small research group, part of a French public institute. In no case we recommend Rendez-Vous for a buisness or even personnal use. We will not provide any support for such use of Rendez-Vous.

Who should care for Rendez-Vous :

Rendez-Vous is an experimental research tool. It has been developped in order to be an ideal testbed for some hot topics such as layered video and audio transport and coding, Forward Error Correction for video and audio on the Internet, wireless and satellite links access to the Internet. As a side effect of this primary goal, Rendez-Vous can also be used for personnal use by people with an adventurous mind.

We at INRIA have for example used Rendez-Vous for several events such as :

  • The SIGCOMM '97 video and audio MBONE broadcasting.
  • Several demos showing the advantage of a satellite access to the Internet.

  • Supported systems :


    Availability of Rendez-Vous :

    You can retreive latest versions (1.0.2) here for those plateforms : You can also download sdr plugins for audio and video.

    If you experience troubles with the above URLs you can try our ftp site : zenon.inria.fr.

    The following OSes should be be supported :
    Sun Solaris, Sun SunOS, SGI Irix, DEC OSF1, x86 Linux, x86 FreeBSD, Windows 95, Windows NT.
    If you are interressed by a Mac OS version please shout here.


    Screenshots :


    Documentation :


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