Advene (Annotate Digital Video, Exchange on the NEt) is an ongoing project in the LIRIS laboratory (UMR 5205 CNRS) at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1.
The project aims at providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video documents (movies, courses, conferences...), as well as tools to edit and visualize the hypervideos generated from both the annotations and the audiovisual documents.
Teachers, moviegoers, etc. can now use them to exchange multimedia analyzes and comments about video documents.
The project also aims at studying the way that communities of users (teachers, moviegoers, students...) will use these self-publishing tools to share their audiovisual "readings", and to envision new editing and viewing interfaces for interactive comment and analysis of audiovisual content.
Here are some key features of "Advene":
· At the package creation level : annotation of audiovisual documents (association of typed information to temporal fragments), creation of visualisation means (views).
· Exchange of annotations and visualization modes in packages independently from the audiovisual material (images and sounds). If needed for the visualization of the data, pictures and sound clips can be extracted from the digital video support (e.g. file, DVD). The user of the data is then required to possess the video to take full advantage of the analysis and comments.
· At the package use level : visualisation of augmented movie (the annotations are used to display supplementary information on the video, to control the playing of the video, to navigate the video), visualisation of hypertext documents constructed from annotation and AV material, use of ad-hoc views (e.g. timeline view).
Requirements:
· X11 server
· VLC 0.8.6.c
What`s New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Main GUI:
· Timecode display: add HH:MM:SSfNN (frame number) display format in
· preferences. The same syntax can be used for timecode input too. Note
· that it uses 25 fps by default (smpte-25), this can be modified in the
· Time-related preferences (it does not yet get this information
· from each video file).
· The snapshotter activity can be monitored and controlled through
· a green icon in the lower right-hand corner of the main window.
· The imagecache can be reset from the Player menu.
· Undo behaviour: implement Undo for annotation/query/view creation.
· Allow storage of binary data in XML.
· New menuitems "Create a montage from the relations" and "Create a
· dynamic view following relations" in relation-type popup menu.
· The comment editor proposes multiple presentation modalities for
· dragged annotation-types.
Timeline:
· Click twice on an annotation will not start playing anymore. This
· caused confusion with double clicks to edit.
· Define generic relation types (from any annotation type to a...
