VideoLib: um middleware escalável para o desenvolvimento de aplicações multimídia de tempo real

Abstract

In the past few year there has been an increase in the demand for applications based on the distribution of video over the Internet. As these technologies became more popular, several areas of knowledge started to take advantage of their features. Thus, several collaborative environments have been developed using video streams as the media of communication. From videoconferencing to educational telemedicine video transmissions, these collaborative applications usually take a long time to be configured and deployed. They also frequently limit the number of participants in a single session. This dissertation proposes a scalable architecture and a middleware that enable the quick development and deployment of video sharing applications in real time. It provides a very low configuration overhead when compared to traditional solutions and supports a great number of users providing and consuming videos simultaneously.