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Today, we are surrounded by a constantly growing number of networked multimedia devices. These devices offer high-quality input and output capabilities often together with enough computing power and programmability to perform a variety of multimedia operations. However, integrating and controlling these distributed devices from an application is difficult because of the variety of underlying technologies. In this paper we present a network-integrated multimedia middleware especially designed for this heterogeneous environment. Our architecture allows for a flexible usage of different networking technologies and offers the extensibility to transparently use various existing infrastructures. Distributed devices can be discovered, inspected, and then integrated into a common media processing graph. We demonstrate our approach with a distributed camera control application and a multimedia home entertainment center.
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Lohse, M., Repplinger, M., Slusallek, P. (2002). An Open Middleware Architecture for Network-Integrated Multimedia. In: Boavida, F., Monteiro, E., Orvalho, J. (eds) Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia. IDMS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2515. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36166-9_28
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