A Platform for Real-Time Content Adaptive Video Transmission Over Heterogeneous Networks

In this paper, we present a real-time adaptive streaming video platform. This platform is fully compliant with the Internet Streaming Media Alliance Implementation Specification. It has been used for experiments of Real-time video streaming and transcoding via unicast and multicast over heterogeneous networks. One of the examples of streaming video over a lossy channel is given, and a simple and efficient scheme for the packet loss recovery is presented.