Managing Access to a Video Server Through a Metadata Base

This paper presents the development of a video server access management system. The system aims to help the insertion, in HTML pages, of objects stored in a video server, allowing that one video (or one part of it) may be used in many documents. The main characteristic of the system is the use of a metadata base that contains attributes of the videos stored in the server. Searches can be made by title, subject, size, author, content, or specific scenes or frames. The system was implemented in a client/server model using the JAVA programming language. Communication between clients and the server is realized through use of the CORBA standard. The data access from the metadata base uses the JDBC API. A Player for video browsing was built using the Intel Media Framework, which implements the Java Media Framework API.