Merge and forward: self-organized inter-destination multimedia synchronization

Social networks have become ubiquitous and with these new possible ways for social communication and experiencing multimedia together the traditional TV scenario drifts more and more towards a distributed social experience. Asynchronism in the multimedia playback of the users may have a significant impact on the acceptability of systems providing the distributed multimedia experience. The synchronization needed in such systems is called Inter-Destination Multimedia Synchronization. In this paper we propose a demo that implements IDMS by the means of our self-organized and distributed approach assisted by pull-based streaming. We also provide a video of the planned demonstration and provide the mobile application as open source licensed under the GNU LGPL.