Multi-Stream Viewer: Simultaneous viewing system for streaming videos with the time tag

Abstract

As the Internet, computer technology, and peripheral devices continue to grow, web services for users are increasing, including such streaming video broadcast services as YouTube and Ustream that allow users to watch the streaming in which they are interested. In the current streaming video broadcast services, users search for streaming videos by title and tag information. However, since many streaming videos have insufficient information, they are often difficult to find. In addition, since only one streaming video can be watched in one browser, simultaneously comparing two or more streaming videos is difficult. In this research, we propose Multi-Stream Viewer as a simultaneous viewing system for streaming videos with tag information added to the time axis to enable users to watch streaming videos. We also implement and evaluate our proposed system.