Multimedia Lesson1

Lesson 1

Multimedia Concept & Topics
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Multimedia Concept
Multimedia Computing
Multimedia Classification
Multimedia Topics
Multimedia Driving Forces
Multimedia Applications

• Course Outline

What is Multimedia
• Multi: more than one
• Medium (singular): middle, intermediary, mean
• Media (plural): means for conveying information
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the press, newspaper, radio and TV context - mass media communications: cables, satellite, network – transmission media computer storage: floppy, CD, DVD, HD, USB – storage media
HCI context: text, image, audio, video, CG – interaction media

• Multimedia: refers to various information forms text, image, audio, video, graphics, and animation in a variety of application environments
Multimedia … : product, application, technology, platform, board, device, network computer, system, classroom, school, …
Word “multimedia” is widely used to mean many different things

What is Multimedia in terms of Computing
Computing: Computer-based technologies and applications
 What computers?  Various forms of computers/devices!
In terms of computing, four fundamental multimedia attributes:
- Digitized: All media including audio/video are represented in digital format
- Distributed: The information conveyed is remote, either pre-produced and stored or produced in realtime, distributed over networks
- Interactive: It is possible to affect the information received, and send own information, in a non-trivial way beyond start, stop, fast forward
- Integrated: The media are treated in a uniform way, presented in an orchestrated way, but are possible to manipulate independently

Definition of Multimedia:
Computer-based techniques of text, images, audio, video, graphics, animation, and any other medium where every type of information can be represented, processed, stored, transmitted, produced and presented digitally.

This course focus  Audio and