Title
Tactus: toolkit-level support for synchronized interactive multimedia
Abstract
Tactus addresses problems of synchronizing and controlling various interactive continuous-time media. The Tactus system consists of two main parts. The first is a server that synchronizes the presentation of multiple media, including audio, video, graphics, and MIDI at a workstation. The second is a set of extensions to a graphical user interface toolkit to help compute and/or control temporal streams of information and deliver them to the Tactus Server. Temporal toolkit objects schedule computation events that generate media. Computation is scheduled in advance of real time to overcome system latency, and timestamps are used to allow accurate synchronization by the server in spite of computation and transmission delays. Tactus supports precomputing branches of media streams to minimize latency in interactive applications.
Year
DOI
Venue
1992
10.1007/BF01213486
Multimedia Syst.
Keywords
Field
DocType
interactive multimedia,graphic user interface
Graphics,Active object,Synchronization,Computer science,MIDI,Workstation,Real-time computing,Graphical user interface,Timestamp,Interactive media,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
1
2
1432-1882
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
26
2.78
15
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roger B. Dannenberg11513278.51
Tom Neuendorffer2334.71
Joseph M. Newcomer34811.22
Dean Rubine442761.44
David B. Anderson538258.69