http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Better Living Through Emerging Technologies en-us jsimms@utk.edu 2005-01-14T07:01:13-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000167-hawaii_dvts_and_vlc_technical_information.html At the University of Tennessee, we are providing two high-quality, permanent multimedia streams. The first is an audio feed of our radio station WUOT, while the second is a stream of our student television station TVC. Both are multicast... 167@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ General 2005-01-14T07:01:13-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000158-royaltyfree_videos_now_available_from_discovery_education.html      Subscribers to Discovery Education's unitedstreaming video-on-demand service now have access to more than 1,000 video clips that have been copyright-cleared by their producers for editing or reproduction by teachers and students in class projects. [More from eSchool News]... 158@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2005-01-04T16:30:02-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/11/000156-is_it_time_for_a_moratorium_on_metadata.html Ramesh Jain has some interesting comments regarding an article published by Dick Bulterman in the Oct-Dec 04 issue of IEEE Multimedia. Bulterman's agenda: Issue a joint proclamation that the DCMI, MPEG-7 and Semantic Web initiatives are all Official Successes and... 156@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-11-08T12:02:17-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/11/000154-captionkeeper_recycles_tv_captions_for_web_streaming.html WGBH's National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) announces the availability of software which enables closed captions created for broadcast and video to migrate to the Web. CaptionKeeper™ software automatically converts line-21 captions created for television or video into Web-streaming formats.... 154@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-11-02T14:21:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000143-educators_increasing_use_of_video_streaming_for_the_deaf.html From the Ohio News Network, September 29, 2004: .....      "Nobody in the hearing world cared if the video was a little jerky because they had a soundtrack with it," said David Stecca, chief executive of Deaf Video Communications of America... 143@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Accessibility 2004-09-29T12:54:32-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000134-congressional_budget_office_report_copyright_issues_in_digital_media.html The Congressional Budget Office has just released a report, Copyright Issues in Digital Media. According to the report's summary, Congress has three options with regard to the current situation regarding copyright: Congress would do nothing and allow market forces to... 134@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-08-24T12:24:29-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000131-geotargeting_bbc_multicasting_5_broadband_streams_of_olympics_coverage.html The BBC is multicasting five broadband streams of Olympics coverage, a total of 1,200 hours, using the Real 10 player as well as H.264 video and AAC audio standards. To ensure that the streams can only be viewed in the... 131@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-08-19T16:29:26-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000130-acacia.html The University of Tennessee received its letter from Acacia two weeks ago, and since then I've been gathering background information for our IT and Legal Counsel folks. Today I stumbled on this list of resources, prepared by WCET and posted... 130@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-08-19T14:52:22-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000124-comparing_videoconferencing_systems.html The current issue of the Bulletin du RISQ (Réseau d'informations scientifiques du Québec) has a fantastic article comparing various videoconferencing solutions, including NetMeeting, iChat AV, DVTS, VCON, Polycom, Tandberg, and others. In French. The same issue also has an interesting... 124@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-07-20T15:33:05-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000123-multicast_test_using_videolan.html We are currently multicasting our local NPR affiliate at 384kbps using VideoLAN, a freely available open source software that supports MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4 streams, IPv4 and IPv6, unicast and multicast. If you are able to receive multicast streams and... 123@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-07-20T15:13:18-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000121-coming_soon_affordable_quadhdtv_camera_display_system.html Imaging Solutions Group expects its QuadHDTV camera to be available in 6-9 months. The camera, developed in conjunction with NASA Ames Research Center with funding from DARPA, provides a video frame rate of 30 frames per second at 8.3 million... 121@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-07-12T16:46:12-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000120-enhancing_collaboration_by_merging_screen_video_images.html I first learned of Facetop, a new videoconferencing system developed at UNC-Chapel Hill, through Roland Piquepaille's blog; it's also been featured at Technology Research News and Wired. By superimposing a transparent video image of the user on top of an... 120@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-07-12T15:50:25-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000109-novell_redhat_to_bundle_real_client_with_their_linux_distros.html Novell and RedHat will begin shipping the Helix media player with their Linux distributions, and will bundle and support RealPlayer 10 once it becomes available for Linux later this year. [More]... 109@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-06-29T10:13:28-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000108-tiger_ichat_av_features_multiple_connections_mpeg4.html The new version of iChat AV shipping with OSX Tiger will utilize H264/AVC (aka MPEG4 Part 10) and will allow up to four clients to videoconference at a time or ten clients for audio only. [Press Release] Of related interest,... 108@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-06-29T10:03:20-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000107-dvd_forum_ratifies_h264_for_next_generation_high_definition_hd_dvds.html Here's the press release.... 107@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ AudioVideo-over-IP 2004-06-23T14:54:10-05:00