‘eaingRewuFenents 10 ‘The following requirements apply 10 compression techniques used for retrieval ‘mode applications: ‘Fast forward and fast rewind with simultaneous display (or playback) of the data should be possible, so that individual passages can be sought and found quicker. ‘Random access to single images or audio passages ina data stream should be pos- sible in less than half @ second. This access should be faster than a CD-DA system ‘order to maintain the interactive character ofthe retrieval application ‘Decompression of images, video, or audio passages should be possible without interpreting all preceding data, This allows random access and editing The following requirements apply to compression techniques used for either dialogue or etrieval mode applicat + To support display of the same data in different systems, it is necessary to define a Format that is iadependent of frume size and video frame rate land video compression should support different data rates (at different ) so tha the data rae can be adjusted to specific system conditions. ‘I should be possible to precisely synchronize audio and video. It should also be possible for a system program to synchronize with other media, ‘It should be possible to implement an economical solution today either in soft. ‘ware or using at most afew VLSI chips. ‘+The technique should enable cooperation among different systems. It should be possible for data generated on a local multimedia system to be reproduced on ‘ther systems. This is relevant, for example, in the case of course materials di tributed on CDs. This allows many participants to read the data on their own sys- tems, which may be made by different manufacturers Also, since many applications exchange multimedia data between systems over communications networks, the compression techniques must be compatible. This can be assured With de jure (@g. ITU, ISO, of ECMA) and/or de facto standards, Ditferent compression schemes take these requirements into account to a varying extent