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Multimedia File Systems

Multimedia file systems are needed to store and synchronize different types of continuous media like video and audio that must be played back in real-time. These file systems must efficiently organize large multimedia files on disk and ensure the continuous media streams are synchronized when displayed. Specifically, they aim to (1) deliver continuous media data to playback systems before strict deadlines to maintain real-time playback, (2) synchronize different media streams like video and audio before showing on a monitor, and (3) optimize storage of large multimedia files that require more space than discrete media like text.

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Multimedia File Systems

Multimedia file systems are needed to store and synchronize different types of continuous media like video and audio that must be played back in real-time. These file systems must efficiently organize large multimedia files on disk and ensure the continuous media streams are synchronized when displayed. Specifically, they aim to (1) deliver continuous media data to playback systems before strict deadlines to maintain real-time playback, (2) synchronize different media streams like video and audio before showing on a monitor, and (3) optimize storage of large multimedia files that require more space than discrete media like text.

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Multimedia file systems

Multimedia Applications and Systems are getting more and more involved in our
everyday lives. Their main purpose is to deal with various media types like pictures,
video data, audio data and text. Video and audio belong to continuous media data.
Pictures and text belong to discrete media data.
When most people refer to multimedia, they generally mean thecombination of two or
more continuous media. In practice, the two mediaare normally audio and video, that is,
sound plus moving pictures.

Why do we need multimedia file systems?

The challenge on multimedia systems are media types that need to beplayed
continuosly. That means that the data that should be played hasto arrive in real time (or
at least until a certain strict deadline).

Continuous media data differs from discrete data but not only in its real time
characteristics. A challenge for these systems is also the synchronization of pictures and
the according sound. Hence these can be two different data streams, it is important to
synchronize these before showing them on the monitor.

Another difference to discrete data is the file size. Video and audio need much more
storage space than text data and the multimedia file system has to organize this data on
disk in a way that efficiently uses the limited storage.

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