The recent advances & development of inexpensive computers & high speed networking technology have enabled the Video-on-Demand (VoD) application to connect to shared-computing services. VoD has important applications in entertainment, education, interactive news etc. The VoD application enables the viewer to select his favorite video from a list of videos, & watch it at will. The VoD system is designed to provide access to a large archive of multimedia documents. VoD is an Internet service with a growing appeal to the mass market & is of increasing importance to Internet service provider's...