Abstract

. The design and implementation of a continuous media player for Unix workstations is described. The player can play synchronized digital video and audio read from a file server. The system architecture and results of preliminary performance experiments are presented. 1. Introduction Our goal is to develop a portable user interface and continuous media support library that can be used to implement a variety of multimedia applications (e.g., hypermedia systems, video conferencing, multimedia presentation systems, etc.). A key component of these applications is a continuous media (CM) player that can play scripts composed of one or more synchronized data streams. Example data streams are: digitized video or audio, animation sequences, image sequences, and text. The initial application we are implementing to test our abstractions is a video browser that allows a user to play high quality videos stored in a large database on a shared file server. Figure 1 shows a screen dump of the brows...

Citations