Multimedia streams such as audio and video impose tight temporal constraints for their presentation. Often, related multimedia streams, such as audio and video, must be presented in a synchronized way. We introduce a novel scheme to ensure the continuous and synchronous delivery of distributed stored multimedia streams across a communications network. We propose a new protocol for synchronized playback and compute the buffer required to achieve both, the continuity within a single substream and the synchronization between related substreams. The scheme is very general and does not require synchronized clocks. Using a resynchronization protocol based on buffer level control, the scheme is able to cope with server drop-outs and clock drift. The synchronization scheme has been implemented and the paper concludes with our experimental results.
Synchronized delivery and playout of distributed stored multimedia streams
Multimedia Systems, Volume 7, N°1, January 1999
Type:
Journal
Date:
1999-01-01
Department:
Sécurité numérique
Eurecom Ref:
354
Copyright:
© Springer. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in Multimedia Systems, Volume 7, N°1, January 1999 and is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s005300050112
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