Specification and implementation of reusable multimedia presentations

Abstract

In this paper, we present the specification and implementation of a multimedia presentation database, which supports the reuse of many kinds of multimedia objects. A formal specification of the presentation database is introduced. The implementation of database and complexities are addressed. The main strength of our system is in a reuse mechanism, which allows the inheritance of multimedia properties and the instantiation of new multimedia objects, as well as large binary data sharing. The proposed system is implemented on the Microsoft Windows 95.