New sync experiments at WWDC

Author: polanri

About: Communication & Support Manager at ArKaos
Web: http://www.paul-henri.com/

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Fraktus used the opportunity of having the compatibility lab at WWDC to put his synced visual network player at test with Snow Leopard and 6 computers (1 server, 5 clients). The clients are some low end Macs, Mac Mini, iMacs and a MacBook Pro.

Here is the result:

Ok there is a black frame when switching queues but hey, it’s a prototype :)

It’s fully multithreaded so development is moving forward carefully. There are threads for the network synchronization, video decompression, OpenGL rendering and status update to the server

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