Context Based Storage and Retrieval of Multimedia Contents

Abstract

Web access is growing rapidly around the globe which is leading to the demand of the web application development and delivery of multimedia contents on the web. Streaming multimedia contents to meet the requirement with the existing web applications over HTTP are proved to be very costly. Multimedia players over the web application have reduced the cost of streaming server and caching but they require coding and processing at the server end during the transmission of media files. When payload increases performance of the server may have to compromise. HTML5 video tag is browser based technology which has reduced even the cost of processing at the time of transmission. It allows the browser to communicate with multimedia contents directly. In our findings we have implemented multimedia players (Quick Time, Flash and MP4) and HTML5 API in DSPACE for the streaming of media file to compare both of the techniques and find out which of the technology is optimum. DSPACE is IR a web based application where scholarly contents are collected, managed and archived. We have found both technologies are not best solution for dynamic growth of the streaming of the media file but each of them has its own priority over each other in respect to payload, size, quality, interactivity and hardware dependency.