Distributed multimedia presentation system based on the MHEG

This paper presents a method to interchange the multimedia information objects between heterogeneous systems in a network environment, and to interactively provide the information to users by interpreting the multimedia synchronization relation and the hypermedia link relation. The MHEG standard has been adopted to improve the reusability and the interchangeability of multimedia information, and to synchronize various media in time and space. The MHEG Presentation System has been implemented to interpret and present the multimedia information objects based on the MHEG specification. The MHEG Presentation System with client/server architecture allows the low-cost PCs to present the multimedia information by separately performing the interpretation and the presentation of information objects.