MediaTech

Emit #4 – Push or Pull?

Apr 5, 2018 · 5 min read ·

This is Emit #4, in a series of blog-posts around the Smart Emission Platform , an Open Source software component framework that facilitates the acquisition, processing and (OGC web-API) unlocking of spatiotemporal sensor-data, mainly for Air Quality and other environmental sensor-data like noise. A lot of things have …

Frequency 1550 – cross-media gaming into medieval times

Feb 9, 2005 · 2 min read ·

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Frequency 1550 is a multi-user city game using mobile phones and GPS-technology. The game provides a real-time, location-based experience, transporting players into medieval Amsterdam of 1550 via today’s most advanced personal medium: a UMTS mobile phone. It is the one of the most exciting projects I ever worked on!F …

Modded XBOX becomes MediaBox

Jan 9, 2005 · 4 min read ·

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I acquired an Xbox at Dixons for EUR 199,99 (ok, leave the 1 ct to Bill I said at the counter). Sometime later I had an almost complete home entertainment center/multimedia jukebox playing all my audio files (mp3, wav, ogg,..) , shoutcast streams, video files (mpg, avi, divx, and even quicktime) and photo slideshows …

SMIL

Jan 6, 2005 · 1 min read ·

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Investigated the W3C SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Interchange Language) . Goal was to see what SMIL is and how it can be used in the KeyWorX multi-user environment. (from http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo) The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of …

Linux MediaBox

Jan 6, 2005 · 2 min read ·

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The stuff below was written in 2003. Much has happened since on what may be called the “Home Media Center”. For example Linux Myth TV on a barebones PC like the Asus Pundit. The stuff below is for reference. The Challenge Around the house I have numerous devices that each serve multimedia functions: Tom’s Hardware – …