SEEKING AND SYNCHRONIZATION USING GLOBAL SCENE TIME

摘要

A METHOD OF SEEKING IN A RICH MEDIA STREAM PROVIDED FROM A MULTIMEDIA SERVER (500) TO AT LEAST ONE MULTIMEDIA CLIENT (600), WHEREIN THE METHOD MAY BE EXECUTED IN AN ENCODER (501) OF A MULTIMEDIA SERVER OR A DECODER (601) OF A MULTIMEDIA CLIENT. A SEEKING INSTRUCTION IS INSERTED INTO THE MEDIA STREAM AT TIME INSTANCE X, COMPRISING AN OFFSET TIME INSTANCE Y, IN ORDER TO BE USED FOR SEEKING AT A GLOBAL TIME RATE. A METHOD FOR ENABLING SYNCHRONIZATION IN A RICH MEDIA STREAM WHEREIN THE SYNCHRONIZATION IS BASED ON A GLOBAL TIMELINE IS ALSO PROVIDED.