Tactus: Toolkit-Level Support for Synchronized Interactive Multimedia (1993)
| Venue: | Multimedia Systems |
| Citations: | 20 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Dannenberg93tactus:toolkit-level,
author = {Roger B. Dannenberg and Tom Neuendorffer and Joseph M. Newcomer and Dean Rubine and David B. Anderson},
title = {Tactus: Toolkit-Level Support for Synchronized Interactive Multimedia},
booktitle = {Multimedia Systems},
year = {1993},
pages = {264--275}
}
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Abstract
Tactus addresses problems of synchronizing and controlling various interactive continuous-time media. The Tactus system consists of two main parts. The first is a server that synchronizes the presentation of multiple media, including audio, video, graphics, and MIDI, at a workstation. The second is a set of extensions to a graphical user interface toolkit to help compute and/or control temporal streams of information and deliver them to the Tactus Server. Temporal toolkit objects schedule computation events that generate media. Computation is scheduled in advance of real time to overcome system latency, and timestamps are used to allow accurate synchronization by the server in spite of computation and transmission delays. Tactus supports precomputing branches of media streams to minimize latency in interactive applications. KEYWORDS: interface, toolkit, multimedia, synchronization, interactive, realtime 1 Published as: Dannenberg, Neuendorffer, Newcomer, and Rubine, "Tactu...
