Terminal player controlled by server XML based on STBSP board

The paper presents a distributed multimedia application system, where server automatically controls numerous multimedia clients by means of distributing XML files containing multimedia function instructions. In the system, several techniques are adopted and implemented such as STBSP Class complement, DirectFB library, xml parser, network and FTP server. The STBSP board is adopted as client development platform. The system has well prospect in distributed advertisement application and other distributed multimedia applications.