The Multimedia Conference Recorder

The ability to archive Internet multimedia collaboration traffic is required in most applications. This paper presents the design and implementation of the Multimedia Conference Recorder, a system capable of recording and playing back multimedia data. The MMCR has been designed to have a client-server architecture; logical independence between components simplifies development and component replication. The MMCR includes real-time multimedia indexes to facilitate fast data access, allowing efficient fast-forward, rewind and random access operations. Where possible, the network delay variance is eliminated to improve playback and stream synchronisation.