blackfrog software, inc.

Software Engineering

Realtime Communications and Audio/Video Processing

Kevin Packard



the blackfrog years, 1996 - present


  1. Bullet blackfrog web site - an ongoing experiment of self-promotion.



  1. Bullet Project Ika - a native iPhone application.  More information coming soon.

  2. See http://taptaptap.com

  3. By TapTapTap.


  1. Bullet Scopia Desktop - a desktop video conferencing solution.  Developed desktop solution

  2. for Mac OS X using blackfrog software’s PComm framework.  Implemented QuickTime

  3. plugins for Mac OS X and Windows to decode  H.239 content video, using Intel’s IPP libraries.

  4. Added encryption (both SRTP and Encrypted RTP) to audio/video communications in Windows

  5. client and Windows/Linux server.

  6. By Radvision Ltd.


  1. Bullet adgrinder - a video advertisement creation, placement, and verification service. 

  2. Developed an iPhone application that uploads photos & text to Aweli Inc.’s adgrinder service,

  3. then views server-generated video.  Developed server process that dynamically constructs

  4. an MPEG-4 movie from a movie template, still images, and text.

  5. By Aweil, Inc.


  1. Bullet Scheduling Kiosk - interactive kiosk software that displays live scheduling data, interspersed

  2. with promotional videos, displayed on flat screen televisions throughout the Real School facility.

  3. For The Real School of Music


  1. Bullet MediaShare - a family of products that enable a new class of real-time multimedia services for

  2. mobile operators.

  3. By Aylus Networks


  1. Bullet Carrier-Asterisk - a subscriber provisioning system that manages a farm of Asterisk PBX

  2. servers.

  3. By SentitO Networks


  1. Bullet Coherent Informatics - a tool for real time video conferencing and collaboration over the

  2. public Internet.

  3. By the Health Communications Research Consortium


  1. Bullet SccIP - a service for routing data and fax calls on the internet.

  2. By Dialout.net, Inc.



  1. Bullet ImageAnalyst - a system providing fully automatable machine vision-based image quality

  2. measurement and analysis.

  3. By Siemens Corporation


  1. Bullet TeraMedia - a collaboration service providing secure Audio, Video and Data communications

  2. across a private, reliable network, Voice and video quality is superior to current H.320 multipoint

  3. solutions, at a lower cost.

  4. By TeraGlobal Communications Corp.


  1. Bullet Inkie - no public details of this project are currently available.

  2. By IBM



  1. Bullet CU-SeeMe - an video/audio conferencing system for IP networks, originally developed at

  2. Cornell University.  CU-SeeMe 3.1.2 for MacOS shipped in December, 1998.

  3. By White Pine Software




the Workstation Technologies years, 1992 - 1996


  1. Bullet Chameleon - H.320 video conferencing system on a single card, for NuBus, PCI, and ISA

  2. bus systems (MacOS and Windows 3.1). Card includes video and audio digitizing, compression,

  3. framing, and ISDN communications. Available for OEM. Customers include Nortel, Corel, VTEL,

  4. NASA, and Apple Computer.


  1. Bullet VISIT Video - a video conferencing system for digital telephone lines, version 3.0 by Northern

  2. Telecom,  v3.0 September 1996; v2.1 September 1995; v2.0 March 1994; v1.0 June 1992.



  1. Bullet MoonRaker QuickTime - Moonraker is a video/audio digitizer card for movie capture and

  2. real-time video effects, developed prior to the release of QuickTime. MoonRaker QuickTime is the

  3. set of software components to adapt this card to QuickTime, released in July 1992.


  1. Bullet WTI-PrimeTime - a television tuner controlled via the Apple Desktop Bus (MacOS) or serial

  2. port (Windows 3.1), released in October 1992. Fully scriptable and recordable via AppleEvents.

  3. First exposure to the object model of OOP design.




the Custom Software years, 1988 - 1992


  1. Bullet MacTools Disk Optimizer - a disk utility that consolidates files and free space on a volume,

  2. improving disk performance; version 1.0 published by Central Point Software as part of MacTools

  3. Deluxe in 1989;  v2.0 in 1992.


  1. Bullet Shotgun - a high speed file name and file content searching utility. Documents were displayed in

  2. native fonts and text styles. Never published, because Apple released System 7 with high speed file

  3. searching built into Finder. Was a great exercise in OOP programming without a C++ compiler.


  1. Bullet XTreeMac - a disk organization utility and Finder replacement; version 1.0 published by XTree

  2. Company in 1988, version 1.02 in 1989. A miserable failure, yet a great lesson in the importance

  3. of market research, because who wants to replace Finder? Still, the technology lived on to seed

  4. some more successful products.






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