The MOS multimedia E-mail system

Abstract

In this paper, we present the architecture of a new multimedia E-mail system, which has been successfully developed in the Communication and Multimedia Laboratory of National Taiwan University. This prototype E-mail system is fully compatible with traditional Internet E-mails in that the multimedia emails can be sent through Internet. For allowing one to compose multimedia emails, the system provides various editors for editing video, audio, image, graphics, and multilingual (English and Chinese) text. It is currently implemented on SUN Workstations with X-windows and OpenLook as its standard graphical user interface. In order to display video, the workstation are equipped with either an add-on video board or a software-based Codecs. Since its development, the system have been widely used in the National Taiwan University. Experience of users showed that the system is convenient to use and is indeed fully compatible with the traditional Internet E-mails.

Design and implementation of a multimedia CSCW platform

“…This agent supports all functions in traditional electronic mail systems as well as multimedia data types. Our research team has presented this multimedia mail system in [23]. The data structure of the mail format is semi-structured [ 161 as shown in figure 5 where each mail has two fields of information.…”