Interactive Continuous Media for the Internet: Architecture, Engineering, Examples

摘要

Todays digital multimedia systems concentrate on satisfying the high quality-of-service requirements imposed by continuous media; vrtually all applications serve for capturing, editing, or presentation. Next generation applications will emphasize real-time creative interactivity and other new characteristics with respect to continuous media. This articles identifies the important characteristics of these future applications. It shows the importance of adequate software engineering support; requirements for this support are derived. The claimed characteristics and requirements are backed with experiences from experimental development of new applications.