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: This paper is describing a solution for an interactive video service in the World Wide Web. It has a look at creating an information retrieval system based on television and German video text. The service aims at presentation in the World Wide Web . The paper has a look on all components of the service. It starts with a brief look on the service as it appears to the client. The following part deals with obtaining traditional media and to process them into a format for later usage of a teleservice. In the following there are reflections on possible client concepts, especially methods to integrate real time video into Webpages. Video transmission also makes the main issues for the server and communication between client and server. After an explanation of our implementation the paper ends with some conclusions about experiences and future work. Keywords: Multimedia, Teleservices, WWW, Video, Stream-protocols 1 Introduction In the near future bandwidth of Internet-Connections will be w..