Transcript web workshop Aug2008 - Workspace

Web Workshop
Maurice Farmer
Web Manager Business School
Chair, Web User Panel
What’s a Web Workshop?
•Share ideas
•Learn new things
•Help each other
->Create a community
Moving pictures on the web
The past, present and future
Tom Johnson
Faculty Multimedia Manager, Natural Sciences
Video and the web
A variety of formats are available
Real Media
Dependent on downloading RealPlayer software
Windows Media
Wide user base but difficulties for playback and third
party software needed for non-Windows machines
QuickTime
Already installed on all Apple machines but download
required for other platforms
Adobe Flash
Brief history
• Developed by Macromedia and first released in 1996
• 1999: 100,000,000 installations and included with IE5
• 2002: Included in all popular browsers and Windows XP standard install
• 2005: Bought by Adobe, YouTube launches
• 95% of web users able to display Flash content
Advantages
• Available for all platforms, totally cross-browser compatible
• Advanced multimedia functionality (video since version 6)
• Inbuilt programming language (ActionScript)
• Ability to include overlays, animations, database and XML functionality
Statistics
Use of Flash
Use of Flash
Imperial College
Goals
• Deliver video across Imperial sites in a standard format
• Branded and centrally hosted area for video content
• Use of Web 2.0 functionality and interaction with popular sites
• Detailed statistics
Where will content go?
• Embedded in College CMS pages
• Central video area
• RSS feed
Imperial’s solution
Embedded
Flash player
List of video
tags
Video
information
The player
Video window
Fullscreen link
Play/Pause
Progress bar
Volume control
Menu
Player menu
Video
information
Links menu
Related video
carousel
Links menu
Related link
Sharing
options
Video tags
RSS feed
How does it work?
MySQL database
Server
XML feed
Player
RSS feed
The future
Developments
• Flash streaming server
• General media player
• Live stream player
• Improved captions including XML driven annotations
• Embeddable videos for non-Imperial sites
• Personalised player
• Interactive slides
Any questions?
What next?
1. Today’s slides will be on the Webguide
2. Next Workshop in October
1. How to improve the WebGuide? Email suggestions
to [email protected]