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Distributed multimedia applications combine the advantage of
distributed computing with the capability of processing discrete and
continuous media in an integrated fashion. The development of
multimedia applications in distributed environments requires
specific abstractions and services, which are usually not provided
by generic operating systems. These services are typically realized
by software components, often referred to as middleware. The CINEMA
(Configurable INtEgrated Multimedia Architecture) project aims at
the development of powerful abstractions for multimedia processing
in distributed environments. This paper presents a flexible
mechanism for the dynamic configuration of applications. The
proposed mechanism allows for the definition of arbitrary complex
flow graphs connecting various types of multimedia processing
elements. Further, processing elements can simply be composed from
other ones to provide higher levels of abstraction. We also propose
the abstraction of a clock hierarchy to permit grouping,
controlling, and synchronization of media streams.
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Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Text
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| Article in Book
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In: Spaniol, Otto (ed.); Danthine, Andre (ed.); Effelsberg,
Wolfgang; (ed.): Architecture and Protocols for High-Speed Networks,
pp. 253-271
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application/postscript
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| subject |
Information Systems (CR H)
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