Design Architecture for IMPlayer as a Tool for Supporting Visual Education Presentation

Presentation of teaching-learning materials in various visual media
forms is immensely necessary and important for educators and students in visual
education. Most often these materials which include videos, audios, and images
exist in numerous file formats indicating the needs for different types of
multimedia applications to run them. Thus, utilizing various combinations of
many file formats during a presentation implies the needs to have the necessary
media players and be familiar with all of them. This can be very awkward for a
presenter especially when switching between players during a presentation. In
this paper, an integrated player (IMPlayer) which allows user to run multiple
media in a single application is proposed as a solution. Basically, the application
provides an interface that allows easy access to various players. The design
architecture which supports multiplayer mode and dual-view features is presented.
Example uses of the tool to support visual education presentation are
also described.