WebDVD Products & Techniques, Pt. 1
  February 12, 2001

SpinWare iControl WE

SpinWare iControl Web Edition (WE) is an easy, affordable product used to create WebDVD titles. The iControl WE ActiveX controller can be embedded into an HTML page, and provides control of various aspects of DVD-Video playback from a remote server. iControl WE offers several levels of sophisticated interactivity without requiring knowledge of scripting languages, such as VB Script and JavaScript. Some of the major features of iControl WE are:

   Script Jumping. As the user clicks on various sections of a script or other textual description, the web page will jump directly to that section of the DVD-Video title and display the multimedia content.
 
   Keyword Jumping. You can define and associate keywords with specific scenes or chapters in the DVD-Video title, and once an end user enters a keyword the program can jump directly to the correct place on the disc where the relevant content is stored.
 
   Web-based transitions. Provides a scripting method to play selected time codes of a DVD-Video title, and use web pages as transitions between each scene and chapter.
 
   DVD-Video Linking. Provides control over most aspects of the DVD-Video playback, such as scene jumping, angle changes, and subtitle selection with the click of a mouse.