What do the digitized lecture videos look like?
Lectures are typically around 30 minutes in length, but can vary from 10 minutes to 60 minutes. On the Windows platform the players are embedded into the web-page and the video window is 200×150 pixels for both bandwidths (28,8 kbps and 128kbps). However, on all other platforms there is a stand-alone player for both bandwidths and the size of the video screen for the 28.8kbps video lectures is 176×144 and the size of the video screen for the 128kbps videos is 320×240. The frame rates of the videos are 8fps for the low bandwidth videos and 15fps for the high bandwidth videos. • How are lectures set-up? Because the majority of our users are working professionals, most do not have the time to sit through an entire lecture. Therefore, Semizone videos are indexed by keywords or topics; allowing users to jump to specific points within a given lecture. To navigate through the videos, a pull-down menu appears below the video screen allowing the student to jump to specific topics within the lec
