User:H0riz0n/tasks/Determined that the OBVM VLC player


 * from: Jean-Baptiste Kempf 
 * to: Michael Trout 
 * date: May 23, 2007 8:08 AM
 * subject Re: VLC

Hello Michael,

Now I get it. Thanks.

From the VLC technically point of view, this should be doable. You can easily add some video-filters on the image, and you can definitively add bookmarks and tags. Video filters will "add" a new image on the video, without modifying the video.

Moreover as VLC is a modular tool, you can add new GPL modules without any problems, and even a special interface to control it.

Some code may need to be added inside VLC, but you can also use your own repository.

I don't know if some developers have time to work for you though, since we are a bit under-staffed.

My best,

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 * from: Michael Trout
 * to: Jean-Baptiste Kempf 
 * date May 23, 2007 7:45 AM
 * subject Re: VLC

Jean, I discribed it a bit in the email -- sorry for not being clear.

we need a new kind of video player that can pull/play specific content from a already created TV show or lecture video. We have a team of developers already looking into it. We are gonna build an application that can lay code over the video froms creating objective based video modules.

Let me describe a scenario... I watch a 60 min BBC show on mathematics and I want to pull out a section in the middle that I want to use. The user will use the player to tag the section (for example 20m:35sec to 21m:45sec) and the user will label it, lets say,  Math:addition. Now using our VLC "wikitube editor" we will be able to strip off the audio and overlay code that will effect the video as it plays in the player. Its important that we dont copy the original video or make changes to it. The player will work, if possible, like painting on top the TV monitor. Keeping the original intact. We want to manipulate the video without "techically" changing it. When we do they become objective based video modules that a community of educators around the world will be able to use to build educational lectures by just linking the obvms together. Make sence... www.cxn.org is doing what I want to to with video with text modules. I know this obvm player can built --- I have a team working on it.

I honestly believe this would be a revolutionaly new kind of video player that can enable us to create a massive catelogue/directory of small video modules that will allow a community to translate video into any language and ultimately change the we we learn because we'll eliminate the need for teachers to do lectures. A massive global community will build education material on everything and all people will have to do is watch OBVM after OBVM to learn. Obviouly there is more to the project than this ... did you watch this video?

I have cc this to our software team leaders... maybe they can put what I am saying in more technical terms.