Abstract
We live in an era that witnesses rapid developments in information technology and multimedia. The technology of multimedia streaming brings the revolutionary change for the network information exchange and profound influence to people's work and the life. In the multimedia environment, we have graphics and text at the same time, we can also add the photograph, animation, good-quality sound, and full motion video. Therefore the single media platform is not enough for the current era of information explosion. We provided a complete approach to design and implemented an interactive multimedia streaming platform and focused on the client architecture in this thesis. We also designed well-defined user interface by based Shneiderman's “Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design”. Besides, in order to reduce server load and increase user experience, we proposed a solution that add RIA technology in our platform. The proposed platform in the thesis will provide a stable e, reliable and synchronous real-time multimedia streaming service. In the future work, we will add P2P technology and keep client-server architecture in our system. With P2P technology, our platform will support more users and make large room be implemented. On the other hand, to keep the client–server architecture will retain the original advantage of interaction.