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Design and Implementation of a Streaming System for MPEG-1 Videos

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A new streaming application has been developed for the Internet environment. The system has client-server structure together with multithreaded architecture and pipelining. RTP protocol is used to transmit packets belonging to MPEG videos. RTCP protocol collects transmission statistics. System is adaptive in the sense that it reacts to dynamic network conditions. A feedback mechanism controls both the frame interval and frame rate depending on the frame-loss statistics and buffered video level at the client. A flow control module at the client side controls buffer underflows and overflows. Performance results of the implementation are reported and discussed. The performance of the proposed buffering strategy is compared with other proposed methods from the literature. The comparisons showed that the proposed strategy is more robust than other methods.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey

    Aylin Kantarci

  2. International Computer Institute, Ege University, Bornova, Izmir, 35100, Turkey

    Turhan Tunali

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Kantarci, A., Tunali, T. Design and Implementation of a Streaming System for MPEG-1 Videos. Multimedia Tools and Applications 21, 261–280 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025774901363

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