A platform-neutral live IP/TV presentation system

  • Authors:
  • Sheng-Tun Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, 2 Juoyue Rd., Nantz District, Kaohsiung 811, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal - Special issue: Interactive virtual environments and distance education
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We propose a novel object-oriented design approach for developing a platform-neutral IP/TV presentation system for playing live TV-like MPEG video streams on the Internet multicast by RTP-compliant servers. Unlike proprietary viewers, such as Cisco's IP/TV viewers, which run only on Windows platforms, our system runs on any Java Virtual Machine environments. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our design approach via actual experimentations. We also propose a Java-based relay agent architecture for relaying RTP streams across multicast-enabled routers. We show that our system is particularly suitable to run as relay agents in this architecture to tackle the cross-platform issue and to accommodate various audio or video media sources efficiently. By adhering to the Internet and multimedia standards, our system is generically applicable to various media streaming systems.