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This paper presents the design, implementation and experimental analysis of a distributed, real-time MPEG video and audio player. The player is designed for use across the Internet, a shared environment with variable traffic and with great diversity in network bandwidth and host processing speed. We use a novel toolkit approach to build software feedback mechanisms for client/server synchronization, dynamic Quality-of-Service control, and system adaptiveness. Our experimental results show that the feedback mechanisms are effective, and that the player performs very well in the Internet environment.
This project is supported in part by grants from ARPA and the National Science Foundation, and donations from Tektronix, Hewlett-Packard and the Portland Trail Blazers.
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Cen, S., Pu, C., Staehli, R., Cowan, C., Walpole, J. (1995). A distributed real-time MPEG video audio player. In: Little, T.D.C., Gusella, R. (eds) Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video. NOSSDAV 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1018. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0019263
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