FN-FORUM: Web based multimedia

date posted 1st August 2003 10:39



Hi

I wonder if anyone has any experience in getting web based multimedia
working. I am not talking about just playing a video in a web page but ...
well let me explain.

We are launching a new service for some of our larger clients which involves
archived and live webcasts. I saw a product by vodium.com that exactly fits
our needs, and want to be able to produce a similar tool.

In vodium's product a moving, text transcript of the speakers speech scrolls
allowing you to read as he speaks, more importantly it allows you to scroll
backwards and forwards and click on a line you want to hear, this clicking
then advances or rewinds the digital video to the right point. There are
also synced slides showing. All this happens in the same web page.

I wonder if anyone has ever done anything like this. I have looked at SMIL
and a flavour of XML for this but am a little unsure how to proceed

Cheers