Abstract:
Recently, a flurry of new multimedia applications, specially CD-ROM based, have come to the market. Yet, some statistics show that many users (upwards of 90%) consider these multimedia applications to be of very poor quality. As with hypertext applications a few years ago, we can blame that on lack of experience with the new medium, but one of the most important reasons, in our view, is the lack of good multimedia authoring tools. In this paper we propose a flexible yet formal model for developing distributed and reconfigurable multimedia applications, which takes into consideration the different types of basic building blocks needed by users, such as audio, video, text, etc., the user interface, application customization, synchronization, and also tackles the scalability and composability problems. We show also our application builder, based on a Tcl/tk visual tool and discuss briefly how the applications can be dynamically reconfigured.
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