Title :
An audio/visual toolkit for supporting continuous media applications
Author :
Chen, Herng-Yow ; Fu, Yen-Sheng ; WU, JA-LING
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chi-Nan Univ., Nantou, Taiwan
fDate :
8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
This paper proposes an audio/video (A/V) toolkit which can assist programmers to develop continuous media (CM) applications. A deliberate A/V file format and a set of programming interfaces which are beneficial to random retrieval, film editing and A/V synchronization are proposed as the kernel of the toolkit. Based on the presented A/V toolkit, some practical CM applications such as A/V Player, A/V EFXer, and A/V Browser, have been developed in the Communication and Multimedia Laboratory of National Taiwan University. These CM applications are easy to integrate as complicated multimedia systems
Keywords :
application program interfaces; audio-visual systems; authoring systems; data structures; multimedia computing; online front-ends; synchronisation; telecommunication computing; video signal processing; A/V Browser; A/V EFXer; A/V Player; A/V file format; A/V synchronization; A/V toolkit; Communication and Multimedia Laboratory; National Taiwan University; audio/visual toolkit; continuous media applications; film editing; multimedia systems; programming interfaces; random retrieval; Application software; Collaborative work; Computer science; Delta modulation; Image retrieval; Multimedia systems; Programming profession; Video compression; Video on demand; Videoconference;
Journal_Title :
Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on