DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS - A REVIEW

The arrival of distributed multimedia technology has the potential bot h to create new application areas and augment those that already exist . However, to achieve this potential system developers must fully unde rstand the nature of multimedia information systems and the mechanisms necessary for such systems to operate successfully. It is the quest f or this knowledge which has initiated research into the needs of distr ibuted multimedia applications. This paper provides a survey of multim edia applications research, and assesses its contribution to the under standing of distributed multimedia applications.