RFC: Radio And Pictures

[Markus Buchhorn]

You may have reinvented a wheel. A very *good* wheel, I would add ! :-).
There is a package out called 'Illustrated Audio', from a group in
Canada. I append a basic readme packaged with the demo (src is available).
They have a Web site, but I'm trying to track down the URL.... Ah - got it:

http://debra.dgbt.doc.ca/ia/ia.html

Developed in collaboration with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation...

Check it out - it's a very nice package, has Web hooks and a few online
demoes. I've run it locally and have been quite impressed. As a slide
show type of tool it's excellent. You could easily use it to package up
presentations of any type and ship them out over the net.
(as long as you can run their code: Unix and X11 needed (Linux is supported)
at this stage, although it shouldn't be too hard to port to other OS'es)

They're looking for porters... Hmm - the version I have is very dated.
Time to upgrade (v0.3 = April 12 1995)

Cheers,
	Markus

Markus Buchhorn, Parallel Computing Research Facility 
email = markus@octavia.anu.edu.au   snail = CISR, I Block, OAA, ANU 
Australian National University, Canberra, 0200 , Australia.
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                            Illustrated Audio
 
                         Revision 0.1 (94-06-08)
                     (c) 1994 Government of Canada                 
 
 
Introduction:
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    Illustrated Audio is our first attempt at designing a system for
    sychronizing image displays with a sound track.  This will be useful
    for computer-based slide shows and for distributing video programs over
    low-bandwidth networks.  When working with video material, an author can
    pick key frames to illustrate and augment the sound track, and avoid
    the problems of random frames with slow-scan systems.
 
    Illustrated Audio data files consist of an audio track, various image
    and text files, and a script that provides instructions for display and
    synchronization.  The parts are assembled into a simple "tar" archive
    for distribution, and the "iaunpack" tool will unpack the archive and
    start the presentation.
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