Dumb questions:
Suppose you have an application which shows text and a corresponding mpeg
video file. The user does a search and clicks one of the hits, the text
around the hit shows up in one window and the video synchs to the text in
another. The user can then click a play button and the text will scroll
with the video, with the line being spoken highlighted at all times.
The question becomes what if a user wanted a network version of such a thing
with the data on a server?
My own instincts would be to write such a thing as a Borland C++ app with
the search objects residing as corba objects on the server. If however
somebody tried to insist on having such a thing as a browser app/applet,
the questions become:
1 Would Java be too slow to do something like that reasonably?
2 Assuming the answer to 1 is no, is there any reason to prefer any one of
the various plug-ins which handle media to the others? You'd probably have
to write something like that in Java and you'd need a plug in which was
programmable (in Java) and minimally had start, stop, and seek features.
Have anybody ever done anything like that (media plug-in inside applet)?
I'd appreciate any info which anybody might could provide me with.
Ted Holden
uw****@verizon. net 
