A Synchronization Scheme for Stored Multimedia Streams

Multimedia streams such as audio and video impose tight temporal constraints due to their continuous nature. Often, different multimedia streams must be played out in a synchronized way. We present a scheme to ensure the continuous and synchronous playout of stored multimedia streams. We propose a protocol for the synchronized playback and we compute the buffer required to achieve both, the continuity within a single substream and the synchronization between related substreams. The scheme is very general because it only makes a single assumption, namely that the jitter is bounded