Streaming media middleware is more than streaming media

  • Authors:
  • Lawrence A. Rowe

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Berkeley, CA

  • Venue:
  • M3W Proceedings of the 2001 international workshop on Multimedia middleware
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Middleware for streaming media requires services other than media capture, encoding/decoding, network transmission, and presentation. Specifically most streaming media applications are distributed applications so they require the services being developed to support client/server and peer-to-peer applications. They also require multicast application services such as soft-state announce/listen protocols, reliable multicast protocols, and publish/subscribe multicast protocols. Some applications require dynamic user-interface definition and support for multimedia authoring and media processing.