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Virage VDF-to-XML Export Plug-in

The VDF-to-XML plugin for the Virage Video Logger provides customers with a standards-based metadata exchange export capability from within their own application framework. Specifically, metadata extracted as part of the video cataloging process can currently be exported only to either HTML or ALE. The addition of this plug-in will allow for metadata resonation in either the W3C-standard SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) specification or the RealNetworks proprietary format called ROB, both of which are based on XML syntax. SMIL is supported primarily by RealNetworks RealPlayer, with upcoming support by Microsoft's Media Player. Both SMIL and ROB provide a mechanism by which multimedia in the form of video, audio, still images, and text can be presented in a time-ordered synchronized manner. This lends itself well to the nature of metadata derived by the Virage VideoLogger during multimedia cataloging. In addition, extraction of metadata from the VideoLogger into a generic XML document is also available. This includes extraction of the keyframes as JPEG images with references in the XML file, allowing this information to be imported into other tools with minimal effort.