An Open Middleware Architecture for Network-Integrated Multimedia

  • Authors:
  • Marco Lohse;Michael Repplinger;Philipp Slusallek

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IDMS/PROMS 2002 Proceedings of the Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems: Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Today, we are surrounded by a constantly growing number of networked multimedia devices. These devices offer high-quality input and output capabilities often together with enough computing power and programmability to perform a variety of multimedia operations. However, integrating and controlling these distributed devices from an application is difficult because of the variety of underlying technologies.In this paper we present a network-integrated multimedia middleware especially designed for this heterogeneous environment. Our architecture allows for a flexible usage of different networking technologies and offers the extensibility to transparently use various existing infrastructures. Distributed devices can be discovered, inspected, and then integrated into a common media processing graph. We demonstrate our approach with a distributed camera control application and a multimedia home entertainment center.