Third International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'95)
Multimedia synchronization for live presentation using the N-buffer approach
Tokyo, Japan
November 07-November 10
ISBN: 0-8186-7216-1
The demand of bringing multimedia information systems into distributed environments makes multimedia synchronization more difficult. In order to eliminate the side effects which result from delay jitters, we propose a bounded buffer allocation scheme, in which the audio stream adopts the blocking synchronization scheme and the video stream adopts the non-blocking synchronization scheme, for live audio and video presentations in this paper. The forward synchronization schemes are performed to overcome the asynchrony anomalies. Once some anomalies of presentations are detected, a forward re-synchronization scheme is triggered to eliminate the asynchrony anomalies. Neither a global clock nor a feedback mechanism is needed using the proposed method. Based on the proposed method, trade-offs between the presentation qualities and networking resources are mathematically calculated. According to these calculable trade-offs, users can derive their own (acceptable) presentation qualities of live video and live audio media based on their available networking resources
Index Terms:
multimedia systems; synchronisation; distributed processing; live presentation; N-buffer; multimedia information systems; distributed environments; multimedia synchronization; bounded buffer allocation; non-blocking synchronization
Citation:
Chung-Ming Huang, Ruey-Yang Lee, "Multimedia synchronization for live presentation using the N-buffer approach," icnp, pp.244, Third International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'95), 1995