MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM PROVIDING DATABASE OF SHARED TEXT COMMENT DATA INDEXED TO VIDEO SOURCE DATA AND RELATED METHODS

摘要

A multimedia system (30) may include a plurality of text comment input devices (31a-31n) configured to permit a plurality of commentators (32a-32n) to generate shared text comment data based upon viewing video data from a video source. The system (30) may further include a media processor (34) cooperating with the plurality of text comment input devices (31a-31n) and configured to process the video source data and shared text comment data, and generate therefrom a database (35) comprising shared text comment data indexed in time with the video source data so that the database is searchable by text keywords to locate corresponding portions of the video source data. The media processor (34) may be further configured to combine the video source data and the shared text comment data into a media data stream.