Browsing video online using semantic information

With the development of hardware and large capacity communication facilities, video has been more and more widely used in every field. Delivering video over the Internet has posted a big problem. Video files are extremely big and need hours or even tens of hours to download. Much research has been attempted over low-level structures such as coding, buffer, protocol, agent and server. These techniques are either not scalable or impractical. This paper presents a system designed to allow efficient retrieving, browsing and real-time playing of videos through the Internet using a web browser. Testing results on resource usage and system usability are presented.