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Searchable Audio/Video Technology

Posted by michael on from the locate-oprah dept.

wyldchild37 writes: "Business 2.0 has an article on an interesting new technology - TV That Works Like the Web. A new startup wants to make all television content archived, indexed, and searchable."

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  1. Others working on this. by instinctdesign · · Score: 5, Informative

    Dremedia isn't the only one working on this. despite the Business 2.0 article's nearly sole focus on that particular company. A few others in the field include, and of course is not limited to, MediaSite (which looks to have recently been acquired by the audio and video editing software company Sonic Foundry), Virage, Pictron and Vodium. Its worth checking out each of the sites respective products page to see how they each are approaching this this new field.

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  2. An archive exists, but only the catalog is online by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative
    The Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago has a VHS archive of all major Chicago TV broadcasts for the last decade or so, plus other material from earlier periods.

    News broadcasts are keyword-indexed. Some indexing is based on closed-caption data. Other stuff is just listed by title and date.

    Anyone can view the video, but you have to go to Chicago. It's fun; I've been there.

  3. Is this stuff really new? by chiku · · Score: 4, Informative

    This stuff is being reported as a very novel stuff. But there has significant research being done in academia.

    Stony Brook (SUNY) ECSL has developed a Videoserver prototype. The difference between this technology and that of ECSL's is that, ECSL videoserver uses closed captions available in the news clips. This way the burden of speech recongnition is taken off the archiving and indexing servers.

    You can read all about it at this page

    This was developed in 1999. This is a well documented project and publicly available. During its initial days it was made available at several download sites. This is still available (documentation + sources) from ecsl website. The only problem is that, this was developed on redhat 5.2 version and used many Beta Stage libraries of gtk(--) etc. Which are now obsolete. It will take a little bit of effort to get it working on latest platforms.
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  4. If you haven't read the article yet... by Alsee · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't bother.

    I'll just fast forward you to the last 2 sentences.

    Now we simply need all the other pieces of the interactive TV puzzle to fall into place. Don't hold your breath.

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