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Streaming Video Playback Speed Controls - Two Innovative Methods
on Jan 15, 2009 in Innovative Technology One of the coolest playback features for online video, especially academic video, is a player with the ability to speed up (or slow down) the playback speed of a streaming video. Way back in the early 2000's there was a...
Tools for testing streaming media
on Sep 10, 2008 in Streaming Media Technology Tips So here's a neat trick for testing how streaming media and web applications perform for users with limited bandwidth connections. OK...I'm getting some rolling eyes at the premise. "Does anyone have limited bandwidth connections anymore?" ...
Facebook and Academic Institutions - Content or Context?
on Dec 12, 2007In the world of enterprise and educational IT, the question I keep hearing asked about Facebook is, "will this supplant our intranet/course platform/LMS/[insert your enterprise application platform of choice]? Students want to know if the...
Video Transcript Browsing Interface
on Dec 2, 2007 in Innovative Technology CNN has presented a unique and powerful UI for viewing and navigating the video of one of the recent Presidential debates. Aside from having done a great job presenting the transcript alongside the video (with appropriate click-to-play-fro...
The New RealPlayer 11 - A First Look
on Jun 25, 2007The new, "web-video-download-center" version of RealPlayer (Is RealPlayer Going to Make a Comeback?) is out this morning. [Download RealPlayer 11] Some first impressions:Download: A 13MB download, but no questions asked and no prompting for per...
Is RealPlayer going to make a comeback?
on Jun 20, 2007Real Networks' newest RealPlayer player appears to be a huge departure from their earlier client-side products. While the Helix server technology and the RealVideo codecs have been ones-to-beat in streaming media technology, the RealPlayer has...