R.B. Dannenberg and D. Rubine. A Comparison of Streams and Time Advance as Paradigms for Multimedia Systems. Technical Report CMU-CS94 -124, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, March 1994.  Home/Search   Document Details and Download   Summary   Related Articles

....allowing easy integration of temporal and static media, and easy synchronization of the views of multiple users. The following section describes how this model can be efficiently mapped to an implementation architecture. The most common model for processing multimedia data is the stream model [3, 4], based on a time ordered flow of information from a source to a target. The main benefit of the stream model is modularity. Not only are producer and consumer of multimedia data decoupled, but stream processing elements may be arbitrarily interconnected. The main drawback of the stream model is ....

....however, is not media integration but rather to provide abstractions on top of a time advance implementation model that ensures timely playout of temporal media in a highlatency, distributed setting. As already pointed out, streams constitute the most common model for multimedia programming [3, 4]. It is inherent in the stream model that temporal media are continuously flowing through the application, typically through pipelines of processing elements implemented as active objects. The flow is initiated by sending start methods to all the active objects; stop methods terminate the ....

R.B. Dannenberg and D. Rubine. A Comparison of Streams and Time Advance as Paradigms for Multimedia Systems. Technical Report CMU-CS94 -124, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, March 1994.

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