Any tool that supports this protocol will be able to access the data streams provided by the Multimedia Toolbox. The primary motivation for implementing the Multimedia Toolkit was to provide distributed collaboration support within Virtue , a virtual environment for manipulating representations of complex software. We have run the toolbox with 1.0 patch level 7 and 1.0 patch level 10 . This application has a command line interface for sending commands to the servers.
Several utilities are available for checking shared memory.
The vvic server creates a shared memory buffer that can be accessed by the client. If vvic crashes, programs in this directory can be used to find the shared memory segment and delete it. The operating system will clear these ports after a minute or so. The Multimedia Toolbox supports RTP V2.0 only. Earlier versions of vic and vat that do not support this protocol have not been tested and are not supported.