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Foil 60 T5: Multimedia Databases -- Video on Demand Server Overview

From Master Foilset for Collaborative and Interactive Visualization Project First Review Review Meeting at Rome Laboratory -- 31 January 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Video on demand environment has been extended to include both NPAC and Rome Laboratory. Video on Demand is available in RL over the ATM delivery trunk from a number of NPAC servers.
Client-server video on demand architecture has been implemented using Windows NT and SGI Irix machines as servers and SGI desktops and PCs as video clients. Streaming, real time video delivery has been implemented and integrated with Web front ends.
Support for video indexing via closed-caption/free text search is available. Video database is integrated with the text database for both video indexing/retrieval and video server management.
Integrated with commercial Video for Windows technology: off the shelf displays supported.

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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