Authoring Tool of Musical Slide Show MAF Contents

  • Sabirin Muhammad Syah Houari (Laboratory for Multimedia Computing, Communications and Broadcasting, School of Engineering, Information and Communications University) ;
  • Kim Mun-Churl (Laboratory for Multimedia Computing, Communications and Broadcasting, School of Engineering, Information and Communications University)
  • Published : 2006.11.10

Abstract

The Musical Slide Show MAF, which currently being standardized by MPEG, conveys the concept of combining several established standard technologies in a single file format. It defines the format of packing up MP3 audio data, along with MPEG-7 Simple Metadata Profile and MPEG-21 Digital Item Declaration metadata; with JPEC images and optional text, and synchronizes them all together to create a slideshow of JPEC image data associated to MP3 audio data during the audio playback. The implementation of Musical Slide Show MAF can be a music karaoke file where users can sing along while listening to the music, view the JPEG slideshow and reading the lyrics; or a story-telling file where users can listen to the narrated story by looking at the related illustration slideshow of the story In this paper we present the tool to producing the Musical Slide Show MAF contents. Regardless the knowledge of user on the MAF file format, the authoring tool simplify the manner of packaging several multimedia contents into single file.

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