Mobile SMIL Jason Daniels Ben Bedinghaus Ryan Ware

Who We Are Ben Bedinghaus – Team Lead, Implementer, Tester Jason Daniels – Configuration Manager, Implementer, Tester Ryan Ware – Liaison, Implementer, Tester

The Project Mobile application supporting SMIL – XML markup language “Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language” defines multimedia presentations Playback of SMIL files Creation and editing of SMIL files Sending and receiving of SMIL files from one cell phone to another

The Platform Why Android? – Java – Windows support – Ample documentation – Eclipse plugin & emulator

Overall Use Case

Overall Activity

Player Activity

Composer Activity

Manager Activity

Player Implementation File Types – text (txt) – image (jpg, png, gif, bmp) – audio (mp3) – video (mp4, 3gp) Controls – Play / Pause – Previous / Next

Send/Receive Implementation Send – Application zips XML file with referenced media files; uploads ZIP file to FTP server; adds new database entry. Receive Application thread created at startup queries database every 5 seconds for new SMIL files. Application downloads and unzips file; removes file from FTP server and database entry; notifies user.

Send/Receive Implementation Server: cscdb.nku.edu – FTP server – MySQL database – PHP scripts for interacting with database send (add database entry) receive (query database for messages) delete (remove database entry after receipt) idto_numberfrom_numbermessage_url mysmil_ zip

Difficulties Playback Performance – Player creates a new thread for every audio and video file during playback. – Lower audio playback thread priority. – Sleep video thread every quarter of a second.

Testing

Task Partition Ben Bedinghaus – Manager (Send/Receive/File browser) Jason Daniels – Player (Media Playback/Control) Ryan Ware – Composer (Editing/Saving/Parsing)

Project Management

Software Configuration Management

Document Inspection

Code Inspection

Communication

Summary