Real-time collaborative video watching on mobile devices with REST services

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

11-1-2012

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a mobile application that synchronizes the playback of a video stream among a group of mobile devices while the video playback is controlled (e.g. pause, resume, seek) by one of the devices. This feature allows a group of people to collaborate remotely in real-time through watching the same video on their mobile devices. To make this application work for heterogeneous mobile devices and networks, we develop synchronization protocols and time-based video position prediction algorithms on top of a REST platform that is independent of programming languages, operating systems and transport protocols. A prototype system has been developed based on Android phones connected by 3G cellular network. The preliminary experiments show the approach is feasible and promising. © 2012 IEEE.

Identifier

84867974332 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9780769547275]

Publication Title

Proceedings 2012 3rd Ftra International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous and Intelligent Computing Music 2012

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/MUSIC.2012.13

First Page

29

Last Page

34

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