Neil
Fri Jul 11 14:16:14 PDT 2008
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:13:00 -0700, Jonathan Melvin <Jonathan
Melvin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>We are involved in a granted-funded research project at the Regional Research
>Institute. We have a large amount of video data we need to ?code,? i.e.
>noting events that happened in the video (did youth show initiative, did
>youth respond to a question, etc).
>
>Can you suggest a method to control Windows Media Player (or any other
>Windows-based media player)? Once video starts, we need the player to
>automatically pause playback after 20 seconds. Once the user resumes
>playback, the video needs to pause again after another 20 seconds, and so on.
>
>We would really appreciate your assistance with this. Thanks much.
This sounds like an ideal application for captioning.
NCAM have a page about this including their Magpie captioning tool
http://ncam.wgbh.org/richmedia/tutorials/captioning.html
I've also got a site with links about captioning and links to realtime
transcription sites (it's a few years old now)
In general, text transcripts mean you have a timecode and notation of
events in the video, and they can be as sparse or detailed as required
Most caption formats can be interconverted programatically and
captured to databases with reasonable ease.
At coull (www.coull.com) where I work, we provide a hosted solution to
marking moving video regions or "objects". When the object list is
complete, clicking an overlay or crosshairs, allows annotation by
adding comments or tags, which may also be helpful.
Objects can also be hyperlinked to relevant web pages (which could be
an advert or just as easily, a dynamically generated details page on
the item of interest)
Contact me at neil.smith at coull dot com if you want a run through of
the admin system for that technique, as we may be able to consider
some form of data transfer or export to a suitable format from our XML
feeds.
HTH
Cheers - Neil
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