Pictron Media Gateway Server is a complete web application allowing Internet users to search for and interact with video using standard web browsers.  Web surfers, corporate gurus, or anyone interested in the power of video can search clips based on text, visual content, or database information.  Results are ranked by relevance with representative video frame, text transcript, visual storyboard, and database attributes displayed.  Users can browse the visual storyboard and navigate to specific video clip locations by specifying the key frame or text transcript line.  Site owners can further customize the search template, search results, and video player layout to match their own applications.

Media Gateway Server Features

• Support multiple accounts and each account administrator can create new users

• Predefined user access privileges and user customizable privileges

• Search for relevant video clips based on keywords or database fields

• Integrated text search engine provides natural language or free text search of video text transcript

• Built-in database for workgroup usage

• Support ODBC-compliant database (Oracle, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft Access, MySQL)

• Support Microsoft Windows Media Video Server, RealNetworks Server, Apple QuickTime Server, Infovalue MPEG Video Server

• Template-based approach suitable for end user customization of web site look and feel

• Standard video search template pages provide an attractive look and fast deployment

• Customizable video search pages provide a seamless integration of searchable video into user's own web sites

• Customizable video player window offers synchronized key frame and text transcripts

• Customizable video player window enhances targeted advertising and e-commerce opportunities

• Distributed architecture for distributed web server, database server, and video server

• Full server-side source code available for application-specific customization

• Application specific plug-in modules for video production, multimedia presentation, and video publishing