Multi-media network mailing system

A new mailing system, known as the Multi-Media Slide Presentation (MMSP), incorporating multimedia elements is proposed to allow the presenter to prepare a slide presentation and transmit it like an electronic mail (e-mail) to a distant place and offer the same presentation environment, without being physically present. The prototype for MMSP was developed on Microsoft Windows for the PC environment, enabling text, audio and pictures and application data to be embedded into frames that may be transmitted and received on the network running under Windows. The prototype conforms to the Microsoft Multimedia extension and uses Microsoft Mail Application Interface (MAPI) and Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). The prototype was tested successfully for generating slides, transmitting and receiving on the network as an electronic mail. This paper presents the implementation details of the proposed MMSP, including the limitations. The availability of larger bandwidth networks and various efficient data compression techniques will make the MMSP more efficient, fast and effective application for real-time based slide presentations