Ginga-NCL tools follow Basic DTV and Enhanced DTV profiles of NCL 3.0. More information about work in progress can be requested by contacting <ncl--at--telemidia.puc-rio.br>.
(1) Composer and Ginga-NCL Emulator are programs written in Java language. Thus the Java Virtual Machine is mandatory. You can get it here.
(2) Ginga-NCL Emulator is an application that shall be used for testing simple NCL programs. It does not offer alpha blending, transparency, transition effects, and some other features. It is not up to date and it does not follow ABNT NBR 15606-2 standard.
(3) Composer is an authoring application still under development, and as such it has some know instabilities. We recommend that upon using this tool, the user should save the project constantly, since some situations lead to corrupted projects. Composer uses the Ginga-NCL Emulator, so all restrictions applied to that tool also applies to Composer.
(4) Ginga-NCL Virtual STB is a virtual appliance for VMWare products. Therefore, VMWare Player is required.
(5) Ginga Live CD is distributed in ISO format. Please, use CD burning tools such as Nero, CD Burner XP etc to create your CD.
(6) The C++ version of Ginga-NCL included into the Virtual STB is a reference implementation, more adherent to the ABNT standards. As a reference implementation, this software shall not be used or distributed in comsumer equipment. PUC-Rio has no responsibility for any use of its source code by third-party vendors.