On Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at 09:10 AM, Ken Norris wrote:
My point is that if Rev can be integrated into displaying and working with
live multimedia content, then the broadcaster could manipulate and display
it while lecturing and going over the material in realtime from a classroom
studio, just like television but with the ability for interaction (student
questions, etc.)
I see this as the _inevitable_ future of interactive television.
What are you envisioning as the payload that the player will receive? video streams? Or a lightweight scene description that's then rendered by the player?
I think a lot of Flash developers are already doing the latter, using the flash player to fetch live data in XML format, which is then parsed and rendered by a flash script. Different multimedia types are then fetched and inserted here and there.
Runrev could be used in mostly the same way (as in Richard's Beyond the Browser article)
If you mean broadcasting video, that's a heavyweight problem.
For that, Quicktime might be a good starting point, since Rev already supports the Quicktime player. Quicktime actually has a lot of features like VR scenes, 3D, sprites and interactivity. However most developers don't know it because there is only a low level C API for doing these things! I know I wouldn't want to mess with that API.
Apple gives away for FREE, open source, the Quicktime Streaming Server, even for Linux and other server platforms. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/products/qtss/ Broadcaster also looks like an interesting product - live encoding. It might not seem like Quicktime is used that much, but in fact ALL the major movie studios release their movie trailers in Quicktime. Recently I thought I saw cnn.com doing quicktime streams as well.
However, there are major licensing issues with all these semi-open standanrds formats like MPEG. (see http://www.xiph.org) I don't think a small company like Runrev could handle the licensing. It would have to piggyback on Apple or Macromedia or someone. Someone described Quicktime as only a wrapper for about a hundred different codecs for multimedia content.
OK now I'm just rambling.
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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