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Chapter 1: Introduction cont.…

Multimedia has become an expected part of any
presentation.
 It has found a range of applications right from
entertainment to education.
The evolution of internet has also increased the
demand for multimedia content.
Multimedia is the media that uses multiple forms of
information content and information processing to inform
or entertain the user.
The use of electronic media to store and experience
multimedia content.
 Graphics, visualization, HCI, Computer vision, data
compression, networking, graph theory, database systems
all have important contribution to multimedia at current
time.

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1.1 What is Multimedia? Component of multimedia

Different people define the term multimedia, they often have
relatively different viewpoints. Multimedia involves multiple modalities of text,
♣ A PC vendor: a PC that has sound capability, a DVD-ROM audio, images, drawings, animation, video.
drive, multimedia-enabled microprocessors that understand Examples of how these modalities are put to use
additional instructions.
Video teleconferencing.
A consumer entertainment vendor TV with hundreds of
digital channels, or a cable TV-like service delivered over a Distributed lectures or higher education.
high-speed Internet connection.
Tele‐medicine.
A Computer Science (CS) or IT student: applications that
use multiple modalities, including text, images, drawings Co‐operative work environments.
(graphics), animation, video, sound including speech, and
interactivity.

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Cont.. Categories of Multimedia

 Multimedia may be broadly divided into two. These are: -
 Linear multimedia:- is a type of multimedia when active content progresses
without any navigation control for the viewer such as a cinema presentation.
 Non-linear Multimedia: - is a type of multimedia when content offers user
interactivity to control progress as used with a computer game or used in self-
paced computer based training. Non-linear content is also known as hypermedia
content.
 Multimedia presentations can be live or recorded.
 A recorded presentation may allow interactivity via a navigation system.
 A live multimedia presentation may allow interactivity via interaction with the
presenter or performer.

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Research topics and projects Applications of Multimedia

Multimedia consists of varieties of research topics and
projects. Some of them are:
Multimedia application is an application which uses a
collection of multiple media sources
e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio, animation, and
video. Hypermedia can have considered as one of the
multimedia applications.
Multimedia can be applied in various areas including but
not limited to, advertisements, art, education, entertainment,
engineering, medicine, mathematics, business, scientific
research and spatial(3-D & 4-D), temporal applications.

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Multimedia and Hypermedia Characteristics of Multimedia

Hypertext is a text which contains links which are used to
move to other texts. These links are called Hyperlinks.
Hypermedia contains a link called hyperlink. By using these
links we can move from one page to another page.
hypermedia is one of the most common applications of
multimedia. Hypermedia is controlled to be text-based.
World Wide Web is the best example of hypermedia
application; however it can include graphics, images, and
especially the continuous media such as sound and video.
Hypertext is therefore usually non-linear.

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Multimedia and World Wide Web

A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted
documents.
The documents are formatted in a markup language called
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that supports links to
other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files.
This means you can jump from one document to another
simply by clicking on hot spots.
Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web.

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