CMML is a great idea with a lot of potential in future use. And the best thing is that it is actually an Internet-Draft, so it is a standard – or at least becoming one.

There’s a missing part, though. In case of video content one should be able to define regions within a frame (or in a time-interval). This would allow one to mark objects/areas of the video stream, that would contain an URI for more detailed information.

The whole thing could be very easily supported by adding a new tag to <clip> tag. Something like <div> (stolen from html) tag to describe an area (and have just like in case of div) with absolute position withing the original frame size of the stream. This of course requires that CMML knows the frame size of the video stream!

An example. The original example is from the wikipedia, just extended with a <div> tag. The only problem with this solution that one can only define rectangles. This could be solved to allow of usage either SVG namespace, or just simply describe polygons with their vertexes. The good thing with SVG is that it is again a standard, that assures us interoperability!

I have contacted the authors of the CMML standard, let’s see if they like the idea. well anyways, tell me if you do at least…

funny to hear the Cafe del Mar vol.7 again after 7 years. 7 years passed and basically i have no clue where have it went. Life has changed so much that i can’t even see at the moment what was the aim. Was there really? well one thing for sure that currently there is a strange loop that keeps me breathing and keeps me still on the track that i wanted to leave for a long time now.

i wonder why people at Joost have chosen to have “regions”. For example you can only watch comedy central’s channel from the US.

Internet shall have no boundaries. no nations, no relegion…
anyways if you are curious what the US people can watch on joost (see the full list here), then just get a nice US proxy and enjoy! i’ve just watched some programmes 10 mins ago from comedy central :P

If you don’t see a channel that you should, don’t panic, it’s there you just need to add it from the channel catalog.

greets to mischi for the vpn!

oh, notice the funny “this programme is currently unavailable…” default message, when you are “switching nations” :)

This will be a quite in-depth analysis of the education on my current university.

Currently we are doing a homework in Formal Methods and we have to use the Symbolic Analysis Laboratory The utility it self is a quite interesting software, but with a very bad documentation, but anyways we’ve managed to understand most of it, and started to define our own homework in it, and started to do some theorem checks with it. It came out that a very simple proof for a theorem takes about 6+ hours on a core2duo machine. So we started to simplify our model, but it still does sucks. So after having like 3 days of constant swearing and not sleeping, finally i wrote to the guy who’s responsible for checking the extra homeworks Peter Bokor . After exchanging 2-3 emails he got to the point, that basically he has no time checking what ever i coded in SAL – because it’s badly written, so it’s hard to understand -, so i should rewrite the whole model, try to simplify the whole thing.

So, what’s the problem in this you might ask? I don’t know what’s the point in doing something/anything in case if you are really interested in an area, you get no answer from the people you should get from – your teachers. It is an interesting approach from my professors that they are doing me a favor, when they are dealing with my problems/questions. I find it awkward, since they are getting payed for doing these things – especially in case when somebody is really interested in it and not just doing it because he wants to get that fucken’ mark…

oh, yeah the models i’ve created are here . Just to be fair with everybody…

well again… this is just eastern-europe where people do give a shit about other people… and in the meanwhile they try to fuck your things up if it’s possible….