An open continuous media environment on the Web
Bill Simpson-Young and
Ken Yap,
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences and Advanced
Computational Systems Cooperative Research Centre,
Building E6B Macquarie University Campus,
Locked Bag 17, North Ryde NSW 2113, Australia. Phone: +61 2 9325 3155 Fax: +61 2 9325 3101
bill.simpson-young@cmis.csiro.au
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Keywords
World Wide Web, Continuous media, Media description formats
Abstract
There is now widespread use of continuous media such as video and
audio on the Internet and intranets and a large number of
applications supporting these media types. For the full potential of
continuous media to be realised, however, it is important that it not
just be supported in disparate applications each making use of video
and audio data, but that the application architectures, protocols and
formats that support these applications are open and shared in the
same way that we are familiar with for the generation, serving and
processing of traditional Web content such as HTML documents and
images.
In this paper, we identify and discuss the need for an open approach
to continuous media and identify issues that should be addressed in
order that the continuous media architecture follow in the footsteps
of the traditional Web architecture and pave the way for a large
range of applications yet to be invented.
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AusWeb97
Third Australian World Wide Web Conference, 5-9 July 1997,
Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore NSW 2480, Australia
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