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From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
Subject: Re: hiding storage latency in multimedia presentations
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Date: 23 May 91 00:42:29 GMT
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In article <21771@ogicse.ogi.edu> staehli@ogicse.cse.ogi.edu (Richard Staehli) writes:
>Can anyone give me some references for multimedia presentation systems
>which hide the latency of storage accesses?  What I'm interested in are 
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>I have already completed an initial investigation into this problem and
>intend to pursue the development of storage server which prefetches data
>according to a presentation script.  The intent is to extend location
>transparency to latency transparency for real-time data access.  I have 
>not found any systems which address this problem for the general case
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>

	This is indeed a very exciting subject (in my opinion)!

	I would also appreciate any information, bibliographies, etc...
	on the issue of real-time queueing of large binary chunks
	of compressed data (i.e. video, sound, mm...) over a
	distributed network.

	Thanks much...Regards |(8>
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Robert
rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu