A Framework for Supporting Multimedia in Distributed Object Server

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Recent advances in hardware support for continuous media(digital audio and video) and in high-speed communication technology have led to the new and exciting innovation of mixing text, graphics, audio, and video(multimedia) with a computer. Computer-supported multimedia applications are just emerging and they include multimedia encyclopedia, videoediting, simulation, adventure games, and learning aids. However, the development of multimedia applications is presently hampered by two key problems. First, multimedia involves novel concepts to many users and developers;they will start with conventions that they understand -books, films, computer games, audio and video equipment -and then discover new ways to use the multimedia environment. Second, today multimedia support typically requires special hardware, real-time handling of huge digital data, and special support for synchronizing different media types, leading to lack of portability and difficult development. One way of alleviating these two problems is by providing programmers with a high level programming model for virtualizing multimedia devices and for handling multimedia data.In this paper, we will describe an objectoriented framework for supporting multimedia applications in discributed environment.
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1992-09-28