Title :
Panther: an inexpensive and integrated multimedia environment
Author :
Guo, Sha ; Sun, Wei ; Deng, Yi ; Li, Wei ; Liu, Qing ; Zhang, Weiping
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Abstract :
An inexpensive yet high performance, integrated and comprehensive multimedia environment based on a low-end PC platform has been designed and prototyped. Major components of the environment consist of (1) an add-on real-time video/audio codec board on PC 386/486, (2) the system software package including both the interactive utility programs and libraries for application and tool development under MS Windows and DOS, respectively, (3) a multimedia authoring tool that can be interactively executed to generate multimedia applications, and (4) a multimedia extension to a relational database that supports a SQL-like query interface for multimedia data. The significance of having such a low-cost, high performance, and integrated environment lies in its potential for an easy and large-scale deployment as either a stand-alone system or a multimedia front-end in a networked environment, or for a high-powered multimedia server
Keywords :
multimedia systems; programming environments; query processing; utility programs; DOS; MS Windows; PC platform; Panther; SQL-like query interface; add-on real-time video/audio codec board; integrated; integrated environment; interactive utility programs; libraries; multimedia authoring tool; multimedia data; multimedia environment; multimedia extension; multimedia front-end; multimedia server; relational database; system software package; tool development; Database systems, query processing; Multimedia computing; Software development environments; Software, utility programs;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5530-5
DOI :
10.1109/MMCS.1994.292483
