13 Multimedia
7. File-Oriented Approach and Database Approach 8. 2-Tier and 3-Tier Client-Server architecture 13 MULTIMEDIA Contents Multimedia: definition—Mass media and multimedia Characteristics of multimedia system— Computer, integration of elements, digital format, interactive Elements of multimedia o Text—Text font, text effects, text animation, text on the Internet o Graphics—Image resolution, image color, image file size, image compression, image capture, bitmap graphics, vector graphics o Audio—Properties of sound, digital audio, sound hardware, sound sampling, sound digitization, music and speech, audio file formats, audio editors, sound compression, selecting a quality audio, audio from a CD to web o Video—Analog and digital video, video editing, digitizing analog video, video compression, video file formats, video on Internet o Animation—Process of animation, creation of animation, hardware and software for animation, animation file formats Multimedia system—Desirable features of multimedia system Multimedia applications—Education, entertainment, training, business, virtual reality Why this chapter Listening to music (CD player, iPod or mp3 player), watching movies (CD, Internet), loading photographs from digital camera to the computer, loading the video clip to the computer, watching animation movies, and playing computer games are some of the multimedia applications. You are using multimedia, quite often, almost every day. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce you to the Multimedia and its elements, and the multimedia applications. 13.1 INTRODUCTION Newspaper and television are the common medium of mass communication. However, they differ in the way they present information to the user. The information in a newspaper is presented as a combination of text, image, and graphics.
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