MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATION

MODULE 1: MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS

TOPIC: INTRODUCTION to MULTIMEDIA

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• Multi: more than one Medium (singular): middle, intermediary, mean

• Media (plural): means for conveying information

- Media in the press, newspaper, radio and TV context - mass media

- Media in communications: cables, satellite, network – transmission media

- Media in computer storage: floppy, CD, DVD, HD, USB – storage media

- Media in HCI context: text, image, audio, video, CG – interaction media

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• 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

• 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.
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• 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 real-time, 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
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• Some authors claim that humans get their information in the following way:

• more than 80 % by sight - of which 20 % is remembered

• 11 % by hearing - of which 30 % is remembered

• 3.5 % by smell

• 1.5 % by touch and taste.

• ... where 50 % of what is both seen and heard is remembered

• ... further 80 % of what is seen, heard and done, is remembered

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• Multimedia communication deals with the transfer, the protocols, services and mechanisms of
discrete media data (such as text and graphics) and continuous media data (like audio and video)
in/over digital networks.

• Such a communication requires all involved components to be capable of handling a well-defined

quality of service.

• The most important quality of service parameters are used to request (1) the required capacities
of the involved resources, (2) compliance to end-to-end delay and jitter as timing restrictions,

and (3) restriction of the loss characteristics.

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Text - ASCII/Unicode, HTML, Postscript, PDF
TEXT
# this includes both unformatted text , comprising
of characters from a limited character set, and
formatted text strings as used for the
structuring, access , and presentation of
electronic documents.

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Images
Still Image - Facsimile, photo, scanned image

• Graphics – Computer produced image

• these include computer-generated images ,

comprising lines, curves, circles and digitized images
of documents and pictures.

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 Audio representation
• Audio – Sound, music, speech, structured audio
(e.g. MIDI)

• this includes both low-fidelity speech, as used in

telephony , and high-fidelity stereophonic music
as used with compact discs.

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 Video representation

# Animation – A sequence of graphics images

# Video (Moving Images) – Movie, a sequence of pictures

# this includes short sequences of moving images ( also known as video

clips ) and complete movies, films.

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 OLD NETWORKS

• Multimedia applications may involve either

Person-to-Person communications or
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Person-to-System communications
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 OLD NETWORKS
# Networking infrastructure - Networks- Two types

#1: PSTN
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#2: Data network

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# PSTN (public switched telephone network)
PSTN
# It is the world’s collection of interconnected voice-oriented public telephone networks.

# PSTN stands for public switched telephone network, or the traditional circuit-switched
telephone network.

# PTSN comprises all the switched telephone networks around the world that are operated by
local, national or international carriers.

# These networks provide the infrastructure and the services for public telecommunication

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 PSTN
# A public switched telephone network is a combination of telephone networks used
worldwide, including telephone lines, fiber optic cables, switching centers, cellular
networks, satellites and cable systems.

# A PSTN lets users make landline telephone calls to one another

# A PSTN is made up of switches at centralized points on a network that function

as nodes to enable communication between two points on the network.

# A call is placed after being routed through multiple switches. Voice signals can then
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 DATA NETWORK
# A data network is a system that transfers data between network access points (nodes)
through data switching, system control and interconnection transmission lines. Data networks are
primarily designed to transfer data from one point to one or more points (multipoint).

# A communication network that is devoted to carrying computer information, as opposed to voice,

video, etc. It consists of a number of nodes, or stations, connected by various communication
channels

# Data networks may be composed of a variety of communication systems including circuit switches,
leased lines and packet switching networks. There are predominately two types of data networks,
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 DATA NETWORK

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 DATA NETWORK
# Types of data networks range from very short range personal area networks (PANs) to wide
area data networks (WANs).

# This example shows that a user is transferring data between a PDA and a computer within
their personal area network (PAN) at their office in Chicago.

# This data can be transferred through their company's local area network (LAN), through a city
wide metropolitan area network (MAN) and through a wide area network (WAN) so it can reach
other locations such as New York.

# When the data reaches New York, it is transferred back to a fiber distributed data interface
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