Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit

Welcome to the home of the Berkeley Continuous Media Toolkit (CMT) -- a portable, freely distributed software package for developing distributed multimedia applications. It is built on top of Tcl/Tk, a scripting language and graphical user interface toolkit, and Tcl-DP, which provides network tools included a remote procedure call package and a name server. CMT is freely distributed and has been ported to a several platforms. Feel free to look around, try our software out, and tell us what you think.

With CMT, we have built CMPlayer, a continuous media playback application that can create live connections to remote video file servers and stream synchronized video and audio data across the Internet WITHOUT downloading the entire file. It can also be used to play local audio and video files, or you can use it in your .mailcap file to play movies, audio clips, and CMT scripts. We have also created a CMPlayer Netscape plug-in for many architectures which is available for download. Once you have downloaded the software, you can try it out by connecting to our video file server, which has some interesting clips that the CMPlayer can access.

CMT News & Announcements

February 1998

The final release of CMT Version 4.0 is now available.

More Information on the CMT

• More detailed information on the CMT, our group, and CMT mailing lists.
• CMT Documentation
• Getting the CMPlayer
• Getting the CMPlayer Plug-In
• Getting the CMT Source Tree
• Our Video Server and Demos
• Papers describing research based on CMT
• Applications and research projects using the CMT

From live internet broadcasts to video on demand systems, the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center is at the cutting edge of multimedia research.