Streaming Video Technologies and Interactive Macromedia Flash

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Streaming Video Technologies and Interactive
Macromedia Flash

• Dr. Karl Harrison
• Department of Chemistry
• University of  Oxford

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Presentation

• Streaming Video Technologies
• Video on the web
• Streaming Video
• Live Webcasts
• Macromedia Flash
• Teaching Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms

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Video on the web

• File Formats
• AVI, MOV, MPG
• Codec Options
• Animation, PhotoJPEG, Cinepak, Sorenson, MPEG1,
  2, 4
• Software
• Discreet cleaner 6
• Mac OS X
• Discreet cleaner XL
• MS Windows
• Eduserv Chest 329.00

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Cleaner Workflow

• Support for more than 60 media formats, including
  QuickTime 6, MPEG-4 and AAC
• MPEG-1 2 with 2-pass variable bit rate encoding
  to create high quality video for DVDs and
  Video-CDs.  
• Integrated Kinoma Video Encoding Engine to
  deliver content on mobile devices

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Streaming Video

• Two Types
• Fast Start (also called progressive download)
  and real-time streaming.
• Video encoding for web
• Example 1 (not streamed)
• Example 2 (streamed)
• Server Technologies (Streamingmedia.com)
• Web Server Chemistry Examples
• Dedicated Streaming Video Servers real-time
• Apples QTSS (free) Movie Trailers, Chemistry
  Examples
• Real Server (not free) c.f. BBC, (RealNetworks
  on how streaming media works)
• MS Windows Media Server (free with MS Windows
  Server) Education examples

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Webcasts Live Streaming Video

• Apple Broadcaster QTSS
• Live example
• Real Server c.f. BBC News
• MS Windows Media Server
• Issues require the right players and firewalls
  settings

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Webcasts Live Streaming Video

• Starbak Torrent Streaming Server
• Videoconferencing to streaming media gateway.
  Designed to stream H.323 conferences to end-users
  across the intranet, Internet, and other IP
  networks
• Multiple streaming player support, including
  Windows Media, Real and Apple QuickTime
• Embedded content links into video stream

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Macromedia Flash Streaming Video

• Sorenson Squeeze codec

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Interactive Macromedia Flash

• Teaching Organic Chemistry Reaction Mechanisms
• Electron motion
• Curly arrow pushing/drawing

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Interactive Macromedia Flash

• Example one of the most remarkable reactions in
  the whole of chemistry

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Interactive Macromedia Flash

• Example large collection of reactions using
  Macromedia Flash
• Interactive Organic Mechanisms Quiz

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Interactive Macromedia Flash

• Future Plans
• Example large collection of named organic
  reactions using Macromedia Flash
• Funding to generate an authoring software package
• Thanks to my 3 Final Year Undergraduate MChem
  Students
• Chloe Yu, Matthew Smith and Oliver Adcock