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Installation Instructions

Windows installation:

Download the installation program, execute it, and follow the instructions.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Confero, make
sure that the previous installation is removed prior to installing the new version,
and make sure that no software component related to Confero is running when
installing. Specifically, check that the Invito SIP user agent program is not running
in the background on your computer. (You can see a flower icon on the System
Tray if it is running.)

Mac OS X installation

Download the installation package confero-mac-X.XX.dmg and double click on it in the Finder.
Drag the 'confero' directory to where you want confero to be installed, e.g. in the '/Applications' directory. Start confero by
double clicking the 'confero.app' icon in the confero directory.

Unix installation:

Download the gzipped tarfile. Then unzip and untar the distribution by typing:

gzip -d conferoXX.tar.gz

tar xf conferoXX.tar

(XX is the version number + platform name.)

Then set the environment variable CONFERO_HOME to the installation path (i.e.
in csh or tcsh write 'setenv CONFERO_HOME /path/to/confero'. The executable is
called 'confero' and resides in the 'bin' directory.

Obtaining and installing a license

Without a valid license file, Confero asks the user to provide a license file, or to go into
evaluation mode, which means that you can only use it for five minutes at a time, and you can only
use it during a seven days evaluation period. After that you need to get a license.

To obtain a license (either a 30-day trial license or a permanent license)
contact Alkit Communications technical support at [email-masked].
To install the license, just follow the instructions when starting Confero. Alternatively, you
can put the license file in the Alkit Confero installation directory, in the
subdirectory "info". The full path to the license file should be
CONFERO_HOME/info/license (on Unix systems) or CONFERO_HOME\info\license.dat (on
Windows systems). On Windows systems the CONFERO_HOME environment variable can
be found through the control panel (System/Advanced/Environment Variables).

For a node-locked license to work, the MAC address of the network card in the
computer need to be provided. You can use the ipconfig command or the
get_node_id program to read the MAC address
on Windows machines. Trial licenses can be generated without the MAC address.

Download

Confero for Windows 2000/XP/Vista - all video grabbers (Video for windows, DV, DirectShow, Matrox)

Confero for Mac OS X - iSight video grabber

Confero for Linux / x86 - video4linux grabber

Confero for SGI O2 / IRIX 6.3, 6.5 (requires O2 video option)

Beta releases

Version 3.35 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.34 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.33 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.32 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.31 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.30 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.26 Beta, Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Version 3.23 Beta, Mac OS X

Changelog

System Requirements / Notes

When using USB cameras you can use either the 'Video for Windows' grabber or the 'Generic DirectShow' grabber (whichever appear to work best). Genarally, we recommend using the DirecShow grabber. Recommended USB-cameras: Logitech
QuickCam Pro 3000/4000/5000, QuickCam Pro for Notebooks, QuickCam Ultra Vision, Philips TOUCAM Pro

For the Linux version, you need to have the PWC module installed (see http://www.linux-sxs.org/hardware/pwc.html).

If you have a Matrox video board (Meteor II, Orion, Morphis, CronosPlus, Vio), you will need to install the Matrox Imaging Library (MIL) runtime environment (i.e. board drivers).
You can find the MIL 8.0 runtime here.

If the colors in the video window appear strange, you might need to configure the graphics card to use 32 (or 24) bits of color depth. You do this in Windows by right clicking on the desktop backdrop, choosing 'Properties', and then 'Settings'. Set the 'Color' selection pulldown to 'True Color' (32 bits).

We are no longer maintaining the SGI O2 release, but we provide the 2.63 version "as is" for those interested. On the SGI O2 the framebuffer depth
should be "32+32" (doublebuffered, 32 bits), and at least 128 MB memory is required. You also need to set the CRM
graphics board to '32 + 32 bitplanes'. You can do this with the xscreen
utility.

Related software

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