Content-based video streaming over the Internet for universal multimedia access

Along with growing up of wireless network and mobile devices, more and more users expect to access multimedia content not only by PC terminal, but also through those pervasive devices. In this paper, we proposed a content-based video-streaming framework for universal multimedia access (UMA). The framework that mainly combines the video analysis with the video streaming technology can make the pervasive device access the multimedia information at anywhere, anytime and anyhow. Our contribution of this paper is to streaming video data according to the video analysis result, the video data during transmission is no more “meaningless information” bits. We have implemented a UMA server, which customizes the video stream according to the video analysis result and the capabilities of client, and a UMA client that receives the adapted video stream.