The MOS multimedia E-mail system

Author

Ouhyoung, Ming ; Chen, Wen-Chin ; Lei, Yuong-Wei ; Chang, Keh-Ning ; Liang, Ching-Lun ; Wang, Shwu-Fen ; Yan, Yung-Huei ; Wu, Jiann-Rong ; Chen, Herng-Yow ; Liu, Nien-Bao ; Wang, Yin-Lai ; Hwu, Tzong-Yin ; Su, Wei-Ming ; Liang, Rung-Heui ; Fu, Kuo-Chang ;

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

1994

fDate

15-19 May 1994

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

324

Abstract

We present the architecture of a new multimedia E-mail system, which has been successfully developed in the Communication and Multimedia Laboratory of National Taiwan University. This prototype E-mail system is fully compatible with traditional Internet E-mails in that the multimedia E-mails can be sent through Internet. For allowing one to compose multimedia E-mails, the system provides various editors for editing video, audio, image, graphics, and multilingual (English and Chinese) text. It is currently implemented on SUN workstations with X-windows and OpenLook as its standard graphical user interface. In order to display video, the workstations are equipped with either an add-on video board or a software-based codecs. Since its development, the system have been widely used in the National Taiwan University. Experience of users showed that the system is convenient to use and is indeed fully compatible with the traditional Internet E-mails

Keywords

electronic mail; graphical user interfaces; internetworking; multimedia systems; performance evaluation; Internet E-mails; MOS multimedia E-mail system; OpenLook; Sun workstations; X-windows; add-on video board; audio; graphical user interface; graphics; image; multilingual text; software-based codecs; video; Computer network performance; Electronic mail; Graphical user interfaces; Internetworking; Multimedia communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1994.292474

Filename

292474