Scripted HTML version of Foils prepared 27 June 97
Foil 53 Use of Video on Demand in WebWisdom
From Futures and Features of Webwisdom Electronic Education and Training DoD Modernization Users Group Meeting San Diego -- 24 June 97. byGeoffrey C. Fox *
Video as used in teaching is typically not complete 90 minute movies but short focussed segments of a few minutes
So text indexed NPAC technology very appropriate in education
Note H263(ISDN performance) or MPEG(LAN (Ethernet) performance) data stored in flat files
All metadata including closed caption or text indices stored in Web linked Oracle database
closed captions read automatically at same time as decoding