Title: Format independence of audio and video in multimedia database systems

Authors: Maciej Suchomski, Klaus Meyer-Wegener

Addresses: Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany. ' Department of Computer Science, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Martensstr. 3, 91058 Erlangen, Germany

Abstract: Format independence is a crucial aspect of data independence in databases, but it is rarely offered for continuous media data (such as audio and video) in multimedia databases. It can be provided by a real-time transformation supported by prepared meta-data, which is most suitable for systems with a low frequency of use for certain continuous multimedia data and a high probability of differentiation between clients accessing these data. This paper focuses on such a real-time transformation that is based on the RETAVIC framework. Additionally, the application scenario and requirements for long-term internal storage formats are discussed.

Keywords: format independence; transcoding; real-time conversion; multimedia databases; format adaptation; audio; video; continuous data; metadata based conversion; data transformation; data independence.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2008.020443

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2008 Vol.2 No.3, pp.297 - 308

Published online: 25 Sep 2008 *

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