Streaming multimedia content over home network with an intelligent controller

Author

Ng, WaiCheong Teddy ; Chan, H. Antony

Author_Institution

MSEE, San Jose State Univ., CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

2-6 Nov. 2003

Firstpage

1802

Abstract

A product to stream multimedia content with an intelligent control in a home network environment is designed and implemented. The home network used in this multimedia content streaming design consists of a multimedia center, client player (MP3 player or MPEG-I video set-top-box) and a remote control type device (palm pilot PDA). The multimedia center streams MP3 songs or MPEG-I video clips in multicasting mode using real time transport protocol (RTP). The client player receives RTP packets from the multicast channel and decodes the streaming data back to analog signals. Palm pilot PDA gets a list of songs and video clips from the multimedia center and indicates the client machines to playback the contents. The implementation of the whole environment and its operation are under Linux OS with various applications, tools and packages.

Keywords

Unix; client-server systems; control system synthesis; intelligent control; multicast communication; multimedia systems; telecommunication channels; transport protocols; Linux OS; MP3 player; MPEG-I video set-top-box; client player; home network; intelligent controller; multicast channel; multicasting mode; multimedia center; palm pilot PDA; real time transport protocol; remote control type device; streaming multimedia content; video clips; Decoding; Digital audio players; Home automation; Intelligent control; Intelligent networks; Linux; Multimedia systems; Packaging machines; Streaming media; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics Society, 2003. IECON '03. The 29th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7906-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IECON.2003.1280333

Filename

1280333