CN1097797C - Method and device for mixed replay of multiple media - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to a method and a device for the mixed playing of various mediums. A medium playing and control unit combines various medium playing devices in a computer, and information with various medium types, such as images, sound, animation, pictures, etc. can be orderly and continuously played through a computer playing interface by a corresponding medium device when the information is played. When users browse recording mediums, users can conveniently and continuously play various medium materials without operating an individual medium device to open various medium files just like play the same medium information.
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The present invention relates to one kind of multiple medium and mix method and the device of playing thereof, particularly a kind of can be with variety classes, but method and device that the relevant medium of content play back continuously.
For existing general media playing device, the user can only play at its medium of controlling usually, just when a kind of media playing apparatus of operation, just can only play a kind of medium, if want to play continuously different multiple medium, just must be to various medium, repeatable operation the corresponding device of playing carry out waiting repeated actions such as opening (open), play (play) and closing (close).
For instance, with present Windows95,98 and operating environment such as NT can support the broadcast of multiple medium, for example comprise and play MPG, AVI, VCD, CD Audio, WAVE, MIDI, the archives of FLC and BMP or the like type, and the various media products that have on the market at present also all have and provide the user to browse for above-mentioned various dissimilar medium archives, but all only limit at the playing device of playing single medium.Still can't variety classes will be had now, broadcast together but the relevant media article of content links up.Do not have a kind of device or method to mention with operation once as yet and control multiple medium, make when browsing the file with multiple media article and can accomplish without any letup, saving needs indivedual inconvenience of opening different media playing apparatus.
For example in " Encyclopaedia Britannica " of making a recording medium kenel, just collect simultaneously a large amount of various media articles are arranged, the medium archives that include image, sound, animation, picture etc. all pool together, when the user searches at wherein a certain theme, just can be by browsing the result that relevant various medium obtain searching.Yet with existing instrument, when using this series products, the user but is suitable loaded down with trivial details in the process of browsing, usually a certain medium (as the medium of figure shelves type) that need selection earlier wherein to be comprised, in the associated profiles inventory of listing, select to open the archives that will browse, and by the respective media playing device of supporting, browse via a broadcast interface, and more than repeating, could browse the archives of various different medium after the operation one by one.Exactly because the difference of the media formats of playing causes the user to browse and views and admires these medium archives becoming very loaded down with trivial details, and the time regular meeting make the media product operation of being developed become convenient inadequately because of the conversion between the different medium.
Therefore, the object of the present invention is to provide one kind of multiple medium to mix method and the device of playing thereof, can reach when using it to play product with multiple media article, just as the convenience of a kind of medium of single medium playing device controls playing now, the form of its broadcast then is that the type by various medium in the product decides, the different product of can arranging in pairs or groups uses, and is multifarious therefore, and can utilizes multiple different medium form to express the content of same theme in the product.
In addition, multiple media playing method provided by the invention and device can show corresponding caption information in playing media.
And the present invention can provide a kind of can be constantly with operating system, be added to as the various newly-increased medium under the Windows environment and to realize in this device mixing playing.
Multiple medium according to the invention described above mix the device of playing, can be in order to make up a plurality of media playing apparatus that have in the computing machine, and to play out a plurality of different media articles continuously, it comprises:
One Database Unit has the media playing apparatus that computing machine has and the relevant information of media article;
One initialization unit, according to the media article information of Database Unit, with the media playing apparatus in the initializing computer,
One playing control unit obtains the current media article that will play according to the media playing apparatus information of Database Unit;
One operational processes unit, the initialization data that transmits according to initialization unit and playing control unit, the media article that the user of transmitting according to the play interface unit instruction control will be play; And
One broadcast interface unit, the instruction that the user is sent sends the operational processes unit to, and the state of playing media and display media broadcast.
In addition, according to the method that the multiple medium of the invention described above mix broadcast, its step comprises:
The initial media playing device;
According to the initialization data media play interface is set;
Send instruction according to setting to playing device, start relevant media playing apparatus;
Whether detect media article and finish, it is rapid then to get back to previous step if not; And
Finish playing program.
For above-mentioned and other purposes of the present invention, feature and advantage can be become apparent, a preferred embodiment cited below particularly, and in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, be described in detail below.
Fig. 1 illustrates the block scheme of one kind of multiple medium mixing playing devices of the present invention; And
Fig. 2～4 illustrate the process flow diagram of one kind of multiple medium mixing player methods of the present invention.
The invention provides a kind of method and device of playing thereof that multiple medium are mixed, in order under a multimedia environment, the mixing that reaches multiple medium by this method and device is play, such as after using this method under the Windows95 operating system, when the user with MPG, AVI, medium such as CD Audio are packed into behind this device, just can constantly play these medium archives by this method and device, and need not browse a kind of medium it is closed, open another kind of medium again and continue to browse, cause the user operational loaded down with trivial details and inconvenient.For example for the acousto-optic media product of an encyclopaedical class, when the user searches the material of a certain theme, via the inventive method and device, just the various different media materials of this theme can be played back one by one continuously, and do not need the user to open various medium archives more one by one.
With reference to Fig. 1, it is for the block scheme of the multiple medium mixing of the present invention playing device.This installs the multiple media playing apparatus that has in the computing machine capable of being combined, mainly comprises: an initialization unit 10, a playing control unit 12, an operational processes unit 14, a broadcast interface unit 16 and a Database Unit 18.Media initialize unit 10 is used for obtaining the information of the various media playing apparatus of computing machine, and the preliminary work that can play corresponding media article; Playing control unit 12 is to obtain the current information of wanting the playing media data according to the data content in the Database Unit 18, comprise the media article kind that is about to broadcast, the reference position of playing, the final position of playing, volume, picture size has the loop play of denying etc., and controls the broadcast of various medium by this; 16 of broadcast interface unit are used to show the broadcasting pictures or the play content of related media.
The principle of the inventive method is as described below:
At first, when initialization, according to the information in the database, in device, open the media device that to play, and it is carried out initialization, comprise medium type-MediaType for information about, medium file name-MediaFileName, the rising of media play, final position are put-MediaBegin, MediaEnd media play picture size-MediaScreenSize, media play speed-MediaSpeed, data are prepared in conduct in these media initialize devices of all will packing into.
Secondly, according to data in the media initialize device media play interface is set, and in a computer operation environment, shown, so that the user operates.
When the user operates by broadcast interface, broadcast interface sends instruction according to operation to broadcast control device, broadcast control device just started the related media playing device and play certain medium this moment, and by the media play monitoring arrangement playing process is detected in real time, to judge whether to start next media playing apparatus.
The flow process of the inventive method is described respectively below:
With reference to Fig. 2, it is the flow process of initial media device.
Step 1: at first judge the medium type that the current computer operating environment is supported after the beginning.
Step 2: with the control information load data base internal memory of used all kinds medium.
Step 3: the content according to database is carried out initialization to various media apparatus.
Step 4: last according to the current medium type initialization broadcast interface that will play.
With reference to its flow process of handling for operation information of Fig. 3.
Step 5: at first monitor the operational zone of playing display device.
Step 6: the operation according to the user sends instructions to the controlling media play device.
Step 7: judge whether then to withdraw from this device, if then carry out step 8 and withdraw from; If not, then forward to and monitor that the operational zone 5 broadcast display device circulates.
With reference to Fig. 4, it is the controlling media play flow process.
Step 9: at first receive the instruction that signal conditioning package is sent.
Step 11: obtain current medium type and state.
Step 13: judge next whether current sentence finishes, if not, then forward to and obtain current type and state 11 circulations, if then carry out next step.
Step 15: compare with next medium type of playing sentence, whether change, if, then carry out next step, if not, then jump to and obtain next broadcast information continuation broadcast.
Step 17: be replaced with down a kind of medium type, return step 11 and continue to obtain next broadcast information continuation broadcast again, and repeat above-mentioned circulation.
Below be a concrete embodiment who uses of apparatus of the present invention and method, be used in the desired data storehouse and include and control database-Sub.ttl and two archives of device initialization information storehouse-info.txt that file layout is as follows:
Sub.ttl：
Below be transfer sequence in playing
| Capable number | Content | Length (byte) |
| 1 | Initial auspicious number finishes auspicious several segment number media names | 53 |
| 2 | English subtitles | ＜＝80 |
| 3 | New word (explanation) | |
| 4 | Chinese subtitle | ＜＝80 |
| 5 | Initial auspicious number finishes auspicious several segment number media names | 53 |
| 6 | English subtitles | ＜＝80 |
| 7 | New word (explanation) | |
| 8 | Chinese subtitle | ＜＝80 |
| 9 | . | . |
| . . . | . . . | . . . |
Info.txt
| Capable number | Content | Figure place |
| 1 | .... | |
| 2 | CMA | |
| 3 | .... |
Wherein: C, A, M represent media articles such as CD Audio, AVI, MPEG respectively.
Play precondition:
The initialization data storehouse of at first packing into, open all medium according to the medium type that comprises in the initialization data storehouse, and display interface is play in initialization, play the medium of first medium type code name representative from the reference position of first captions according to controlling database, and whether the play position of these medium of real-time judge has surpassed this end position, if surpassed and then judged whether next medium type is identical with the current media type, if identical then the continuation play, if difference then stops to play current media, and begin to play the medium of the medium type code name representative of next from next position.
More than table is example, for example begin play CD Audio and show captions " A dog jump over the fox " from broadcast point 01:40:12 earlier, when being played to 01:50:34, clear captions, stop CD Audio, play AVI since 123 places and show captions " the fox is lazy ", up to being played at 234 o'clock, clear captions, stop AVI, play MPEG since 2456 places and show that captions " andthe dog is brown " up to being played to 2789, repeat above-mentioned circulation up to finishing all media articles.
Though the present invention discloses as above with a preferred embodiment; right its is not in order to qualification the present invention, any those skilled in the art, without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention; when can doing a little change and retouching, so protection scope of the present invention should be as the criterion with claims institute confining spectrum.
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1. one kind of multiple medium mix the device of playing, and in order to make up the multiple media playing apparatus that has in the computing machine, to play out a plurality of different media articles continuously, described device comprises:
One Database Unit has this media playing apparatus that this computing machine has and the relevant information of this media article;
One initialization unit, according to this media article information of this Database Unit, this media playing apparatus in this computing machine of initialization,
One playing control unit obtains the current media article that will play according to this media playing apparatus information of this Database Unit;
One operational processes unit, the initialization data that transmits according to initialization unit and playing control unit, the media article that the user of transmitting according to the play interface unit instruction control will be play; And
One broadcast interface unit, the instruction that the user is sent sends the operational processes unit to, and the state of playing media and display media broadcast.
2. multiple medium as claimed in claim 1 mix the device of playing, and wherein the information that has of this Database Unit comprises: be about to the media article kind play, the reference position of broadcast, the final position of playing, volume, picture size, and the loop play of denying etc. is arranged.
3. multiple medium as claimed in claim 1 mix the device of playing, and wherein the initialization data to those media playing apparatus of this initialization unit is to show this computer environment by a display screen, by the user this broadcast interface unit is set.
4. multiple medium as claimed in claim 3 mix the device of playing, wherein this broadcast interface unit will send instruction according to user's operation, starting this relevant media playing apparatus plays, and by a monitoring arrangement playing process is detected, to judge whether to start next this media playing apparatus.
5. one kind of multiple medium mix the method for playing, and in order to make up a plurality of media playing apparatus that have in the computing machine, with a plurality of different media articles of continuous broadcast, its step comprises:
Those media playing apparatus of initialization;
According to the initialization data one media play interface is set;
Send instruction according to setting to this playing device, start this relevant media playing apparatus;
Whether detect those media articles and finish, it is rapid then to get back to previous step if not; And
Finish playing program.
6. multiple medium as claimed in claim 5 mix the method for playing, and wherein initialized step also comprises:
Judge those media playing apparatus that this computer operation environment is supported;
The control information that deposits those media playing apparatus in is in a database;
Content according to this database is carried out initialization to those media playing apparatus; And
Broadcast interface according to this media playing apparatus of media article initialization of correspondence.
7. multiple medium as claimed in claim 5 mix the method for playing, and wherein the setting that this media play interface is carried out will be shown on this computer screen, so that the user operates.
8. multiple medium as claimed in claim 5 mix the method for playing, wherein when the user operates by this broadcast interface, this broadcast interface will send instruction to a playing control unit according to operation, play this media article by this playing control unit, and by a media play monitoring arrangement playing process is detected, to judge whether to start next this media playing apparatus.
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