VCR4J

Overview

The vcr4j project is a Java API for communicating with video cassette recorders (VCR) that support the Sony 9-pin communication protocol over RS422 (a serial port). It was originally developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in support of the Video Annotation and Reference System (VARS).

Latest Version

The latest version is vcr4j-1.6.2. You can download it and it's required dependencies here.

Documentation

Developer documentation is available here

Maven 2

vcr4j is in the Maven 2 repository at http://code.google.com/p/mbari-maven-repository/. To include it in your maven project include the following in your pom.xml file:

<!-- Add the MBARI repository -->
<repository>
    <id>mbari-maven-repository</id>
    <name>MBARI Maven Repository</name>
    <url>http://mbari-maven-repository.googlecode.com/svn/repository/</url>
</repository>


<!-- Add vcr4j dependency -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.mbari</groupId>
    <artifactId>vcr4j</artifactId>
    <version>1.6.2</version>
</dependency>

NOTE: It's up to you to figure out how to include RXTX's native libraries into your build or project.