Distributed and synchronized control system for environmental signals in multimedia playback

A method includes providing a media dataset including media content data and environmental effects metadata defining a set of environmental events each corresponding to a media timestamp of a plurality of media timestamps. The method further includes, for each environmental event in the set of environmental events, identifying a protocol timestamp for a communication protocol, where the protocol timestamp corresponds to the media timestamp of the environmental event, and generating a message for transmission according the communication protocol, where the message associates the environmental event with the protocol timestamp. The method further includes addressing the message to one or more environmental effect generators. 一种方法，包括提供媒体数据集，该媒体数据集包括媒体内容数据和定义一组环境事件的环境效果元数据，每个环境事件对应于多个媒体时间戳中的一个媒体时间戳。该方法还包括，针对该组环境事件中的每个环境事件，识别通信协议的协议时间戳，其中协议时间戳对应于环境事件的媒体时间戳，以及包括生成用于根据通信协议传输的消息，其中该消息将环境事件与协议时间戳相关联。该方法还包括将消息寻址到一个或更多个环境效果生成器。