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This paper is about GLASS, a distributed multimedia system that is currently under development. The multimedia department of the IBM European Networking Center in Heidelberg, Germany, participates in the project along with other industrial and university partners. GLASS is an acronym for Globally Accessible Services, expressing the system's wide range of possible applications. Interactive TV scenarios can be presented as well as multimedia applications for interactive learning and games for entertainment. Clients for standard telecommunications services like FAX and E-mail can be included as well as presentation components providing access to hypertext-oriented internet services like WWW. The system's components can be highly distributed using networks with TCP/IP. An application is driven by MHEG-encoded presentations that allow for the definition of sophisticated presentations. The system comprises multiple server and client components. All components can be operated on a mix of different platforms. Although running on different operating systems, all clients have the same look and feel which is defined completely by the MHEG presentation.
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Cossmann, H. et al. (1996). GLASS: A distributed MHEG-based multimedia system. In: Hutchison, D., Christiansen, H., Coulson, G., Danthine, A. (eds) Teleservices and Multimedia Communications. COST237 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1052. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61028-6_19
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