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Building Babel: Freeing Multimedia Processing And Delivery From Hard-Coded Formats, Joseph Alfred Thomas-Kerr

University of Wollongong Thesis Collection 1954-2016

The amount of multimedia content available via the Internet, and the number of formats in which it is encoded, stored and delivered continues to grow rapidly. So too the number and diversity of the devices and software applications which produce, process and consume such content. This constantly changing landscape presents an increasing challenge to interoperability, since more and more software and hardware must be upgraded as new formats are developed. However, many of the operations performed on multimedia content are similar across coding formats. In recognising this, this thesis proposes several approaches to format-independent media processing, with an emphasis on …