staehli@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Richard Staehli) (05/23/91)
Can anyone give me some references for multimedia presentation systems which hide the latency of storage accesses? What I'm interested in are systems which allow synchronization between separate data presentation events while tolerating a wide latitude of access latencies. For example, if one stream of video data is to begin its presentation simultaneously with the end of another, is there a system which anticipates the access latency for the second video to allow precise synchronization? I have already completed an initial investigation into this problem and intend to pursue the development of storage server which prefetches data according to a presentation script. The intent is to extend location transparency to latency transparency for real-time data access. I have not found any systems which address this problem for the general case where data streams may be stored in slow-access devices such as optical disk juke boxes or distributed over a network. What I can share is an extensive bibliography (~300 refs.) on multimedia computing, and perhaps a summary of the responses that I receive. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. Richard Staehli Oregon Graduate Institute 19600 N.W. von Neumann Drive, Beaverton, OR 97006-1999 internet: staehli@cse.ogi.edu phone: (503) 690-1009
rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson) (05/23/91)
In article <21771@ogicse.ogi.edu> staehli@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Richard Staehli) writes: >Can anyone give me some references for multimedia presentation systems >which hide the latency of storage accesses? What I'm interested in are [stuff deleted...] >I have already completed an initial investigation into this problem and >intend to pursue the development of storage server which prefetches data >according to a presentation script. The intent is to extend location >transparency to latency transparency for real-time data access. I have >not found any systems which address this problem for the general case [more stuff deleted...] > This is indeed a very exciting subject (in my opinion)! I would also appreciate any information, bibliographies, etc... on the issue of real-time queueing of large binary chunks of compressed data (i.e. video, sound, mm...) over a distributed network. Thanks much...Regards |(8> --- Robert rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu