News on demand

This paper describes a solution for an interactive video service in the World Wide Web. It looks at creating an information retrieval system based on television and German video text. The service aims at presentation in the World Wide Web. The paper handles all components of this service beginning with content collection and ending with the presentation at the enduser. It starts with a look at the service as it appears to the client. It next deals with obtaining traditional media and processing them into a format for later usage in a teleservice. Then follow reflections on possible client concepts, especially methods to integrate real time video into Webpages. Video transmission also provides the main issues for the server and communication between client and server. After an explanation of our implementation the paper ends with some conclusions about experiences and future work