Multimedia Application Software Development

Client:
This application development outsourcing project is being done for a leading entertainment company providing many channels of contents and entertainment including Karaoke over a digital media (using software technologies, Windows based PCs, database application, and digital hardware including digital TVs, and remote control).

Project: Windows based Applications Design and Development Outsourcing

Software Technologies: MS Visual Basic (VB), MS Access, PC Remote Control software

Special Hardware:

1. 1.Two High end Graphics Card with ‘TV Output’ (ATI AGP Rage128 PRO 32 MB with TV output) for connecting the TV to the PC
2. IR Receiver for the Remote Control
3. Remote Control
4. Two TVs/ Pc Monitors

A Brief Description: The Karaoke Prototype software consists of the following modules:

• Administration module
• User module
• Remote module
• Karaoke Player module

Administration module: In this module, the following features are present:

• Customer Profile: For maintaining the customer database.
• Song Database: For maintaining the song database. The song database consists of the song details such as song id, song title, path to the folder where the specific song is stored at the central server, etc.
• Karaoke Rooms: For adding and deleting the karaoke rooms.
• Booking Karaoke Rooms: This sub module shall be used for maintaining & keeping track of the bookings of the karaoke rooms. Using this module, each user/ singer is allotted specific timeslots for the using the karaoke room. These timeslots are of fixed time period. In this sub module, the administrator can also view the previous bookings made by a customer and also, all the bookings done for a specific day. Using this interface, the admin can select the playlist for the customer at the time of the booking itself.

User Module: In this module, presently only the following features are present:

• Login: Using this sub module, the user will login with the allocated userid & password at the specified time in the specific karaoke room. After logging, the user shall be able to use the karaoke room facilities. Once a user logins in successfully, the Karaoke player gets automatically activated and the playlist that was created at the time of the booking of the room, starts playing. Now, the user can control the songs being played using the remote control provided. The user can change the sequence of the songs in the playlist, increase/ decrease the volume, select a song randomly from the playlist, pause/ start/ stop the song, etc.

  The user interface is loaded on one PC monitor while the song and the lyrics are displayed on the other TV.

• Settings: This sub module is provides the path of the Karaoke player software & the remote software to the User application.

Remote Module: This module makes use of the remote software, the remote device and the IR receiver for providing the user the feature of controlling the application through the remote device.

Karaoke Player Module: This module is used for actually playing the Karaoke songs. The player that has been used in the prototype is Mimic Audition.

The basic hardware setup for this software is shown below:

Duration
2003 - 2004 on-going