Video player and authoring tool for presentions with tangential content

A computerized method for delivering to a user a multimedia presentation comprised of a video and a plurality of tangential content, the method comprising:

• controlling a graphical user interface on a display device for allowing the user to manipulate the multimedia presentation;
• parsing a presentation script, wherein the presentation script comprises instructions describing the relationships between the plurality of tangential content to a plurality of slides, and the relationships between the plurality of slides and playback times or frames in the video;
• and
• displaying to the user the multimedia presentation according to the presentation script.

A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method for delivering to a user a multimedia presentation comprised of a plurality of multimedia content, the method comprising:

• controlling a graphical user interface on a display device for allowing the user to manipulate the multimedia presentation;
• parsing a presentation script, wherein the presentation script comprises instructions describing the relationships between the plurality of tangential content to a plurality of slides, and the relationships between the plurality of slides and playback times or frames in the video;
• and
• displaying to the user the multimedia presentation according to the presentation script.

A computerized authoring tool for creating a multimedia presentation comprising:

• a video content file and a plurality of tangential content, the authoring tool comprising;
• a presentation control unit which provides a graphical user interface on a display device for allowing a user to manipulate the multimedia presentation;
• wherein the graphical user interface comprises a video display region for displaying the video content file;
• a control panel for controlling the graphical user interface, and a tangential content region for displaying the plurality of tangential content;
• wherein the control panel allows a user to add a slide from a plurality of slides to the multimedia presentation, to associate the slide to a specific playback time or frame within the video content file and to associate one of the plurality of tangential content to the slide;
• and wherein the presentation control unit creates a presentation script, wherein the presentation script comprises instructions describing the relationships between the plurality of tangential content to the plurality of slides, and the relationships between the plurality of slides and the playback times or frames in the video content file.

A computerized method for creating a multimedia presentation, the multimedia presentation comprising a video, a plurality of slides, and a plurality of tangential content, the method comprising:

• providing a video player for manipulating the video;
• choosing a time or frame within the video to have the multimedia presentation display a slide from the plurality of slides;
• associating tangential content from the plurality of tangential content to the slide;
• and
• generating a presentation script to be parsed by a second video player, wherein the presentation script describes the relationships among the time or frame within the video, the tangential content, and the slide.

A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method for creating a multimedia presentation, the multimedia presentation comprising a video, a plurality of slides, and a plurality of tangential content, the method comprising:

• providing a video player for manipulating the video;
• choosing a time or frame within the video to have the multimedia presentation display a slide from the plurality of slides;
• associating tangential content from the plurality of tangential content to the slide;
• and
• generating a presentation script to be parsed by a second video player, wherein the presentation script describes the relationships among the time or frame within the video, the tangential content, and the slide.