Re: Synchronized...

Vinay Kumar (vinay@eit.COM)
Fri, 3 Dec 93 12:46:45 PST


Yes, XMosaic itself cannot handle sync. multimedia. However, the way i
am handling synchronized multimedia is by spawning off my external viewer,
a MIME Multiplayer. It creates synch. MIME multipart+parallel messages that
can be stuck in the Web. Using XMosaic's ".mailcap", one can spawn off this
external viewer from XMosaic to play MIME multimedia messages. As of now,
i can handle Synchronized Graphics, Audio and PointerMotion Gestures (no video
yet).

I am not sure if this is the right way, take this more as an fyi.

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  Vinay Kumar
vinay@eit.com

--------------------------------- > From: Chris Adie <CJA@ml0.ucs.edinburgh.ac.uk> > > Thus wrote "Q. Alex Zhao" <azhao@cc.gatech.edu> on Thu, 25 Nov 93 13:12:33 EST: > > > Can X-Mosaic handle "synchronized media"? Basically, I want the > > following effect: > > > > - There's a link; when I click on it, I will get a MPEG movie _AND_ > > some audio information. > > > > - Based on the first one, can the audio part somehow synchronize with > > the video part at some certain points, like there may be some > > interesting points in the video, and when I see one, I will hear the > > corresponding audio explanation... > > > > Can Mosaic do these? > > Not really, no. I'm currently trying to write a proposal to RARE to > add better multimedia presentation facilities to WWW along the lines of > John Larmouth's message and yours. The list will have a chance to > review it in January some time (I hope!). > > > Regards, > > Chris Adie Phone: +44 31 650 3363 > Edinburgh University Computing Service Fax: +44 31 662 4809 > University Library, George Square Email: C.J.Adie@edinburgh.ac.uk > Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, United Kingdom >