A Remote Presentation Agent for Multimedia Databases

  • Authors:
  • J. A. Rody;A. Karmouch

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Ottawa;University of Ottawa

  • Venue:
  • ICMCS '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

The successful realization of distributed multimedia information systems depend on the ability to overcome the synchronization problems involved in the end-to-end presentation of multimedia information. In this paper we discuss multimedia synchronization at the source, network and user-interface levels of the distributed multimedia information system. In order to resolve the synchronization problem we make use of a progressive retrieval strategy which sequentially retrieves independent synchronized entities from a multimedia document. This paper also presents an architecture for a multimedia presentation agent which synchronizes the multimedia document for playback. This multimedia presentation agent is designed to be an interactive server to a user-interface client.