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Foil 27 Video on Demand in Living Textbook

From Webserver General Description -- January 1995. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

Centralized Video Server at NPAC distributed over NYNET on demand to schools
Indexed by text database to on average about every 15 seconds of video news
Will explore speech recognition for further indexing
Initially tens, then hundred to thousands of hours of video at approximately one gigabyte per VHS quality MPEG compressed video
Setting up Maspar as compression engine to process realtime satellite feeds from CNN and Reuters with MPEG2 broadcast quality output
Use modified WWW (Mosaic) browser
Initial video sources will be:
  • Reuters News Video as Class Reference Material for Social Studies and Foreign Language instructional support
  • Discovery channel educational documentaries
  • Multimedia material produced by teachers and school children



Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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