Hypervideo Production Using Crowdsourced Youtube Videos

Abstract

Hypervideos, consisting of media enriched and linked video scenes, have proven useful in many scenarios. Software solutions exist that help authors make hypervideos from media files. However, recording and editing video scenes for hypervideos is a tedious and time consuming job. Huge video databases like YouTube exist that can provide rich sources of video material. Yet it is often illegal to download and re-purpose videos from these sites, requiring a solution that links whole videos or parts of videos and plays them in an embedded player. This work presents the SIVA Web Producer, a Chrome extension for the creation of hypervideos consisting of scenes from YouTube videos. After creating a project, the SIVA Web Producer embeds YouTube videos or parts thereof as video clips. These can then be linked in a scene graph and extended with annotations. The plug-in provides a preview space for testing the hypervideo. Finalized videos can be published on the SIVA Web Portal or embedded in a Web page.