Media Objects in Time -- a multimedia streaming system -- work in progress paper v 1.5

The widespread availability of networked multimedia potentials embedded in an infrastructure of qualitative superior kind gives rise to new approaches in the areas of teleteaching and internet presentation: The distribution of professionally styled multimedia streams has fallen in the realm of possibility. This paper presents a prototype - both model and runtime environment - of a time directed media system treating any kind of presentational contribution as reusable media object components. The plug-in free runtime system is based on a database and allows for a flexible support of static media types as well as for easy extensions by streaming media servers. The prototypic implementation includes a preliminary Web Authoring platform

An environment for processing compound media streams : work in progress paper V 2.0

With today s widespread availability of networked multimedia potentials embedded in an infrastructure of qualitative superior kind the distribution of professionally styled multimedia streams has fallen in the realm of possibility. This paper presents a prototypic environment - both model and runtime system - for processing composite media streams variably composed of multimedia data objects. The system consists of an intelligent media database, a Web-authoring tool, a time directed presentation stream and is based on a hypermedia data model of reusable object components. The plug-in free runtime system is designed as a pure JAVA implementation. Further educational applications of our architecture are presented, as well

An environment for processing compound media streams

With today's widespread availability of networked multimedia potentials embedded in an infrastructure of qualitative superior kind the distribution of professionally styled multimedia streams has fallen in the realm of possibility. This paper presents a prototypic environment - both model and runtime system - for processing composite media streams variably composed of multimedia data objects. The system consists of an intelligent media database, a Web-authoring tool, a time directed presentation stream and is based on a hypermedia data model of reusable object components. The plug-in free runtime system is designed as a pure JAVA implementation. Further educational applications of our architecture are presented, as well

An environment for processing compound media streams : work in progress paper V 2.0

With today s widespread availability of networked multimedia potentials embedded in an infrastructure of qualitative superior kind the distribution of professionally styled multimedia streams has fallen in the realm of possibility. This paper presents a prototypic environment - both model and runtime system - for processing composite media streams variably composed of multimedia data objects. The system consists of an intelligent media database, a Web-authoring tool, a time directed presentation stream and is based on a hypermedia data model of reusable object components. The plug-in free runtime system is designed as a pure JAVA implementation. Further educational applications of our architecture are presented, as well