Design and Performance of the Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit

by:

Ketan Mayer-Patel and Lawrence A. Rowe
Computer Science Division - EECS
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
in Multimedia Computing and Networking 1997,
Martin Freeman, Paul Jardetzky, Harrick M. Vin,
Editors, Proc. SPIE 3020, pp 194-206 (1997)

HTML Format
Postscript Format
PDF Format

Abstract

The design and performance of the Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit (CMT) is described. CMT provides a programming environment for rapid development of continuous media applications. CMT overhead is measured in the context of a simple video playback application and is found to be only a few milliseconds per frame played. As a demonstration of CMT as a research infrastructure, an experiment comparing adaptive frame rate control policies is described.