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Given by Bartlomiej Winnowicz at Rome Lab Quarterly Review for CIV on June 28 96. Foils prepared 23 February 97
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| Microsoft's Internet approach |
| ActiveMovie technology |
| NPAC extensions to ActiveMovie |
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Video Client for PC Platforms
Presented Material
Microsoft's Internet Approach
Internet Explorer Features
ActiveMovie Technology
ActiveMovie Architecture
ActiveMovie Illustration
MPEG Filter Graph
NPAC extensions to ActiveMovie (in progress)
VOD MPEG Filter Graph
H263 Filter Graph with Synchronization
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| Bart Winnowicz |
| VoD Group |
| NPAC |
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| Microsoft's Internet approach |
| ActiveMovie technology |
| NPAC extensions to ActiveMovie |
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ActiveX Technology
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| handles ActiveX controls, including multimedia ActiveMovie control |
| uses Visual Basic Script and Java Script to link ActiveX controls, and Java applets into interactive pages |
| supports Java, security, documents formatting, and more |
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| architecture for control and processing of streams of time-stamped multimedia data |
| runtime to play digital movies and sound |
| handles MPEG-1, AVI, QuickTime compression formats |
| provides ActiveMovie OLE control |
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| uses modular components called filters connected in configuration called filter graph |
| filter graph manager object controls how filter graph is assembled and how data is moved through the graph |
| filter graph manager and filters expose Component Object Model (COM) interfaces, to allow communication between themselves as well as requesting application |
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| Application |
| ActiveMovie |
| Control |
| COM |
| interfaces |
| Media Control |
| Interface |
| Filter graph manager |
| Renderer |
| filter |
| Source |
| filter |
| Transform |
| filter |
| Media |
| source |
| Media |
| destination |
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| File |
| source |
| filter |
| MPEG |
| splitter |
| filter |
| Video |
| renderer |
| filter |
| Audio |
| renderer |
| filter |
| MPEG video |
| decompression |
| transform |
| filter |
| MPEG audio |
| decompression |
| transform |
| filter |
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| streaming and playing movies from NPAC's Video Server, including MPEG, AVI, and QuickTime movies (full interactivity) |
| implementation of new transform filters (for new software MPEG and H263 video decoders) |
| synchronization of H263 video with audio stream in ActiveMovie filter graph |
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| MPEG |
| splitter |
| filter |
| Video |
| renderer |
| filter |
| Audio |
| renderer |
| filter |
| New MPEG |
| video decomp. |
| transform |
| filter |
| MPEG audio |
| decompression |
| transform |
| filter |
| Video |
| Client |
| source |
| filter |
| VOD |
| commands |
| data |
| Video |
| Server |
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| VOD or File |
| source |
| filter |
| Video |
| renderer |
| filter |
| Audio |
| renderer |
| filter |
| H263 video |
| decompression |
| transform |
| filter |
| Audio |
| decompression |
| transform |
| filter |
| VOD or File |
| source |
| filter |
| audio renderer |
| clock |