Streaming media

Analysis of Streaming Media Systems Analysis of Streaming Media Systems

Streaming-Media Knowledge Discovery

T he proliferation of powerful Web-based search engines that efficiently index and search large document collections has made it easier for the casual user to search and browse text documents on the Web. Although several portals provide comprehensive text information, we have yet to see a similarly comprehensive resource list for locating relevant information in streaming media, whether via sea...

Streaming Media Caching

Streaming media has contributed to a significant amount of today’s Internet traffic. Like conventional web objects (e.g., HTML pages and images), media objects can benefit from proxy caching; yet their unique features such as huge size and high bandwidth demand imply that conventional proxy caching strategies have to be substantially revised. This chapter discusses the critical issues and chall...

Special Session on Media Streaming

Multimedia has become the major player in today’s information technology industry. The rapid growth of computing power, networking technology and Internet based e-commerce witnessed in the past few years has created many new channels and business opportunities for the dissemination of multimedia content. Streaming media over the Internet, wireless networks and home networks is about to become t...

Streaming Media Interfaces for Chat

We describe some common problems experienced by users of computer-based text chat, and show how many of these problems relate to the loss of timing-specific information. We suggest that thinking of chat as a streaming media data type might solve some of these problems. We then present a number of alternative chat interfaces along with results from user studies comparing and contrasting them bot...