| Several works on multimedia storage appear in literature today, but very little if any, have been devoted to handling long duration video retrieval, over large scale networks. Distributed retrieval of multimedia documents, especially the long duration documents, is an imperative step in rendering high-quality, high-fidelity, and cost-effective services for network service providers. Distributed Multimedia Retrieval Strategies for Large Scale Networked Systems presents an up-to-date research status in the domain of distributed video retrieval. This professional book will include several different techniques that are in place for long duration video retrieval. An experimentally tested technology under the JINI platform, demonstrates a practical working system which serves as a feasibility study, as well as the first step in realizing such a technology.
Deriving entertainment and availing a variety of multimedia services via home-computers/laptops or mobile devices, have become commonplace for Internet users in this modern era. Growing high-speed networking technology coupled with the development of ultra-speed multimedia high-end machines facilitates the notion of rendering such media services at attractive costs. Network based multimedia services attempt to render best effort services at cheaper prices. For instance, a video rental store allows users to rent video cassettes, CDs/DVDs at a fixed price. In contrast, a networked multimedia service (NMS) allows a user to surf through a range of collections and obtain the desired content, without having to satisfy timing, or physical location restrictions. Furthermore, a user need not even be confined to a specific location, but could be roaming with a mobile device. Modern Video/Movie-on-Demand (V/MoD) services even allow complete interactivity by supporting functionality that includes variable-speed playback, fast-forward/backward, etc. |
