Synchronization in Specification-based Multimedia Presentations

✍ Scribed by Johnny Wong; Sriram Kini; Kishore Doobagunta

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 604 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0038-0644
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-024x(199601)26:1<71::aid-spe997>3.0.co;2-r

✦ Synopsis

Several information protocols exist for exchange of multimedia information. The HyperText 'Jkansfer Protocol (HITP) of NCSA combines hypertext techniques with multimedia to provide an intuitive, easy-to-use hypermedia interface. However, HTTP does not provide the means to synchronize different multimedia channels. The NCSA hypermedia browser, Mosaic, has been modified to incorporate synchronization constraints. Platform-independent multimedia authoring programs have been combined in a new synchronization scheme. The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) has been extended to allow the specification of temporal dependencies between different media channels. This extension allows synchronization in the authoring of hypermedia presentations using Mosaic.