Title : 
A distributed hierarchical video-on-demand system
         
        
            Author : 
Rowe, Lawrence A. ; Boreczky, John S. ; Berger, David A. ; Brubeck, David W. ; Baldeschwieler, J. Eric
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Div. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
This paper describes research issues in the design and implementation of a video-on-demand system. Issues related to database design and population, user interface design, media formats, tertiary storage and video file server management, video delivery, and copyrights are discussed
         
        
            Keywords : 
copyright; distributed databases; interactive television; interactive video; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; user interfaces; visual databases; copyrights; database design; distributed hierarchical video-on-demand system; media formats; population; tertiary storage; user interface design; video delivery; video file server management; Computer science; Costs; Courseware; Databases; File servers; Material storage; Motion pictures; Streaming media; Switches; TV;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Image Processing, 1995. Proceedings., International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Washington, DC
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-8186-7310-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICIP.1995.529714