Evaluations on Playback Interruption Control for Broadcast and Communication Integrated Video-on-Demand Systems

Due to the recent development of the Internet, broadcast and communication integrated video-on-demand services have attracted great attention. Playback interruptions occur during playing videos when the Internet bandwidth is insufficient for the video delivery. Hence, various methods to reduce the interruption time have been proposed. However, they do not consider the psychological interruption time which changes according to the attention to interruptions or the concentration to video playbacks. Therefore, the users´ motivations for playing videos can be depressed largely in the existing methods. In this paper, we discuss an interruption control for video-on-demand systems. Also, we extended previous methods to control interruptions and evaluated their performances for interruptions.