Development of HTTP-based Multivision Video Streaming Server and Benchmark Evaluation

High functionality and interactivity of video services are strongly desired. The authors have presented a proposal of an encoding scheme and a fast joining scheme for interactive multivision systems, where joining is the combination of multiple streams into a single video stream. This paper describes implementation of an actual HTTP-based streaming server by embedding the stream joiner module into a widely available HTTP server. The contribution of this paper is that the joining speed of the server surpasses the necessary speed attained with practical network equipment connecting to the server.