Multicast video synchronization via MPEG-4 FGS/XML representation

Author

Sun, Xiaoming ; Kuo, C. C Jay

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Abstract

A solution to the re-synchronization problem in the layered video multicast, based on the MPEG-4 FGS/XML representation, is proposed. A raw video file is encoded into the MPEG-4 FGS format that consists of the base layer and enhancement layers. The corresponding XML trees are built using the integrated MPEG-4 FGS/XML parser simultaneously. The XML representation of MPEG-4 FGS video presents an accurate and randomly accessible tree structure to interact with the standard MPEG-4 encoder/decoder. Under the assumption that the XML documents can be transmitted via the reliable TCP protocol at the same time when the MPEG-4 FGS bitstream is delivered, we can demonstrate that the difficult resynchronization problem in layered video multicast can be easily tackled with the assistance of the XML description.

Keywords

Internet; hypermedia markup languages; multicast communication; multimedia communication; synchronisation; transport protocols; tree data structures; video coding; FGS bitstream; FGS/XML parser; Internet video streaming; MPEG-4 FGS format; MPEG-4 FGS/XML representation; MPEG-4 encoder/decoder; TCP protocol; XML description; XML document transmission; XML trees; base layer; enhancement layers; layered video multicast; multicast video synchronization; randomly accessible tree structure; raw video file encoding; Access protocols; Decoding; MPEG 4 Standard; Streaming media; Sun; Telecommunication traffic; Tree data structures; Video coding; Web and internet services; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2003. ISCAS '03. Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7761-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2003.1206100

Filename

1206100