Experiences from the Implementation and Use of Multimedia Synchronization Mechanisms

Abstract This paper presents experiences from the implementation of Multimedia Synchronization Mechanisms related to the support of the many‐to‐one inter‐media synchronization and describes the proposed Synchronization Architecture and its Design Objectives. The main goal of the communication system in the proposed architecture is to maintain the asynchrony levels between the media streams belonging in a Synchronization Group between the levels specitied by the Multimcdia Application. This is achieved through appropriate Synchronization Primitives related to the management and monitoring of the synchronization. The pilper emphasizes on the implementation issues and problems, and the solutions adopted. concluding to the lirst experiences from the use of the synchronization.