MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION
TOPIC: MULTIMEDIA APPLICATIONS
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Multimedia Applications
•Application that involve multiple media types:
1. Interpersonal Communications: May involve speech,
image, text or video. (speech only, image only, text only, text &
image, speech & video)
2. Interactive Applications over the Internet: Browsing
through sales, literature, newspapers, etc.
3. Entertainment Applications: Movie/Video on demand, 3
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1. Interpersonal Communications
• May involve speech, image, text, or video.
• May involve single type or integrated two or more type of media involved
• 1. Speech only
• 2. Image only
• 3. Text Only
• 4. Text and Images
• 5. Speech and Video
• 6. Multimedia
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SPEECH only
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SPEECH only
•Traditional interpersonal communication - telephones connected to PSTN/ISDN/PBX.
•Multimedia PC with a microphone and speakers - used to make telephone calls through PC.
•Requirements – telephone interface card and associated software - technology is computer
telephony integration (CTI).
•Advantages - users can create own private directory of numbers and can initiate a call by
selecting the desired no. on the PC screen.
• Access circuits require more capacity/bandwidth.
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SPEECH only
1. Voice mail:
• Used when the called party is unavailable.
• A spoken message - voice mail is saved in the voice mailbox, which is present at a central voice mail
server – this message can be read by the owner next time they contact the server.
2. Teleconferencing:
• Involves multiple interconnected telephones/PCs. Each person can talk to all the others involved in the
call - conference call / teleconferencing call / audio-conferencing call. Requires - central unit - audio
bridge - provides the necessary support to set up the call automatically.
• Internet telephony initially supported PC-to-PC communications – extended to PC-to-
telephony.
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VoIP -Telephony over the Internet
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VoIP -Telephony over the Internet
• As internet has packet mode operation
– both PC require software & hardware to convert speech signal from microphone
into packets and vice versa - Voice over IP (VoIP).
• Telephony gateway
– interworking unit used when a PC connected to the Internet makes a call to
telephone connected to PSTN/ISDN.
• PC requests to make a telephone call to a pre-allocated gateway using its internet
address
– If user is registered, the gateway will request the phone no. to establish the call
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VoIP -Telephony over the Internet
• On receipt of this the source gateway will initiate a call with the gateway
nearest to the called party.
• The called gateway then establishes the call to the recipient telephone
using its telephone no.
• If the called party answers then a signal is sent back by the recipient
gateway to the PC via source gateway
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Image only
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Text only
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Text only
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Text and Image only
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Text and Image only
• Application - involves both text and images integrated together is computer
supported cooperative working (CSCW) - the network used is
Intranet/Internet/LAN.
• Shared whiteboard - distributed group of people working on the same project can share
each others display.
• CSCW comprises a central “whiteboard program” and a linked set of support programs in
each PC/workstation with a shared window/workspace (shared whiteboard).CSCW made up
of 2 part :
– change –notification part – whenever any member of the group updates the content
of their whiteboard, this part sends details of the change to the whiteboard program.
– update –control part - this part relays the changes to the display of all other
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• E.g. - video telephony. Speech and video
• Requirement - terminals/PCs with video camera, microphone & speaker.
• Network must provide 2-way channel with sufficient bandwidth to
support the integrated speech and video.
• Bandwidth requirement of access circuit is also higher.
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Speech and video
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Video conferencing using broadcast network
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MANY TO MANY IN VIDEO CONFERENCING
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Multimedia
•A multimedia email will consist of text, images, audio and video.
– E.g.- email applications consisting media types other than text are Voice-mail,
Video mail and multimedia mail.
•Voice-mail /Video-mail
•Multimedia mail
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Multimedia electronic mail structure
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2. INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS OVER THE
INTERNET
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3. ENTERTAINMENT APPLICATIONS
• Entertainment applications are classified into:
- Movie/video-on-demand https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=mvQze0vJgAg
- Interactive television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvy-2UJJrF
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MOVIE/VIDEO-ON-DEMAND
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NEAR MOVIE-ON-DEMAND (N-
MOD)
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