Construction of the Server of the Progressive Multimedia MUD

• Main Authors: Chang, ChingHsiung, 張景雄
• Other Authors: Hsieh, WenShyong
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1996
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18727180222492414648

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 資訊工程研究所 === 84 === MUD is one of the famous service in the Internet, it offers a good interactive environment for multiple users. The users in a MUD system can fully nteractive with the users. The media for interacting are text only. All message such as room's description, background showing, interactive message, are text. It is too hard to perform for beginners. In this paper, we will survey the architecture of traditional MUD. The methods how to introduce the multimedia into traditional MUD are studied. In Multimedia MUD system, how to transmit the files of image, sound, or voice from MUD server to the client is the most important issue. The possible methods may be real time, off line, or progressive methods proposed in this paper. To establish a progressive Multimedia MUD, many stratages must be introduced. A storage management stratage is introduced to handle the limit storage space. The prediction of next room is used to predict the most possible next room and to preload the media file of next room. For compatible with the traditional MUD. We must modify the traditional MUD OS and LIB. A specified control code is added to the MUD LIB to indicate client the media file of current room and possible next rooms. Based on these indication, a client can fetch and prefech the media files which are not in client`s storage. The control code are carefully designed to prevent the client of traditional MUD from the disturbing of control code. A experimental system of the campus`s journey guide is introduced. In this tool, users can visit the campus meet and do all interactive action with other visitor inside the campus.