CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION TO
MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM
& APPLICATION
 Learning Outcomes
• At the end of this lecture, student should be able to:
• Define the multimedia system
• Explain the basic of multimedia system
 Topics
• What is multimedia, multimedia application and multimedia system?
• Multimedia Delivery System
• The Basic of Multimedia System
• The Basic of Multimedia Application
• Multimedia Data
What is Multimedia?
 Definition: Multimedia
• Multimedia can have a many definitions these include:

Multimedia is the integration of multiple forms of media includes text, graphics,

sound, animation and video, to effectively to convey ideas to the users.

Multimedia is any combination of text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video
that is delivered by computer. When you allow the user – the viewer of the
project – to control what and when these elements are delivered, it is interactive
multimedia. When you provide a structure of linked elements through which the
user can navigate, interactive multimedia becomes hypermedia (Vaughan, 2011).
 Definition: Multimedia
For example:
• A presentation involving audio and video clips would be considered a
"multimedia presentation."
• Educational software that involves animations, sound, and text is
called "multimedia software."
• CDs and DVDs are often considered to be "multimedia formats" since
they can store a lot of data and most forms of multimedia require a
lot of disk space.
Multimedia Elements
Classification of Media
Time/Space
nature

Sound Video Animation

Continuous
or time-based

Photo Text Graphics

Discrete
or space-based
Origin
Captured Synthesized
from real world by computer
 Definition: Multimedia Developers
Multimedia Developers:

The people who create multimedia

content/projects/application/systems.
 Definition: Multimedia Developers
• Multimedia developers may perform the following tasks:
• talk with clients to understand their requirements
• investigate, analyze and recommend appropriate equipment and software to
achieve clients' objectives
• prepare flowcharts and storyboards to outline product concepts
• prepare code to produce the multimedia product
• prepare digital graphics, animations, sound, video, photographs and images
for editing
• prepare design concepts
• liaise with related graphics, production and engineering experts
• manage the development and implementation of multimedia products.
 Definition: Multimedia Projects
• The multimedia materials, which are part of a particular topic or
subject, presented on a computer or television screen.
• Stages of a multimedia project:
• Planning and costing
• Designing and producing
• Testing
• Delivering
 Multimedia Requirements
• Creative skills
• Design, develop multimedia application

• Technology tools
• Hardware, software

• Organization and business talent

• Working as a team, selling the product
 Definition: Multimedia Application
• Multimedia Application is an application which uses a collection of
multiple media sources e.g. text, graphics, images, sound/audio,
animation and/or video.

• A multimedia application is more like a

movie or a book.
• Content must be created and
produced.
• Usually interactive.
 Definition: Multimedia System
• A system capable of processing multimedia data and applications.
• A system able to present in an integrated way different types of media, where at least one
is continuous (e.g., video, audio, or animation).
• Characterized:
• Capturing
• Processing
• Storage
• Generation
• Manipulation
• Recovering
• Rendition
• Transmission
• Presentation
… of multimedia information.
 Multimedia Systems Technology
• Multimedia systems have to deal with the
• generation,
• manipulation,
• storage,
• presentation, and
• communication of information
Components of Multimedia System

Computer Represent
Controlled Digitally

Integrated

Interactive
 Components of Multimedia System
• A Multimedia system has four basic characteristics:
• Multimedia systems must be computer controlled.
• Multimedia systems are integrated.
• The information they handle must be represented digitally.
• The interface to the final presentation of media is usually
interactive.
 Components of Multimedia System
• Computer Controlled
• Producing the content of the information – e.g. by using the authoring tools,
image editor, sound and video editor
• Storing the information – providing large and shared capacity for multimedia
information.
• Transmitting the information – through the network.
• Presenting the information to the end user – make direct use of computer
peripheral such as display device (monitor) or sound generator (speaker).
 Components of Multimedia System
• Integrated
• All multimedia components (audio, video, text, graphics) used in the system
must be somehow integrated.
• Every device, such as microphone and camera is connected to and controlled
by a single computer.
• A single type of digital storage is used for all media type.
• Video sequences are shown on computer screen instead of TV monitor.
 Components of Multimedia System
• Interactivity
• Level 1: Interactivity strictly on information delivery. Users select the time at
which the presentation starts, the order, the speed and the form of the
presentation itself.
• Level 2: Users can modify or enrich the content of the information, and this
modification is recorded.
• Level 3: Actual processing of users input and the computer generate genuine
result based on the users input.
 Components of Multimedia System
• Digitally Represented
• Digitization: process involved in transforming an analog signal to digital signal.
 Multimedia Data:
The Perception Medium
The Perception Medium

images video

text
The Perception Medium

music

noise
speech
 Multimedia Delivery System
• A multimedia delivery system has 3 fundamental components:
• The hardware hosting the system
• The software delivering the content
• the content itself
Multimedia Delivery

02

01 Network

Optical
Disk

03

Kiosk
 Multimedia Delivery
• Optical Disks

Media Storage
Compact Disc (CD) 650 MB
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) 4.7 GB
Bluray Disc (BD) 27 GB
 Multimedia Delivery
• Distributed Network
• Web-based content
• Mobile-base content
 Multimedia Delivery
• Streaming
• delivering a multimedia file
• from a server to a client
• typically over a network connection
• There are two different types of streaming:
• Progressive download
• begins playback of the multimedia file as it is delivered.
• file is ultimately stored on the client computer
• Real-time streaming
• multimedia file is delivered to client
• but not stored on the client’s computer
 Multimedia Delivery
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud
• a large group of interconnected computers accessible via the Internet
• Cloud Computing
• a computing model in which software applications and files are hosted on a cloud
 Multimedia Delivery
Web-based CD-based
Limited in picture size and low Can store high-end multimedia
video resolution elements
Can be changed, damaged or Can be permanently stored and
deleted by irresponsible not changeable
individuals
Information can be updated easily Information can be quickly
and cheaper outdated
 Multimedia Delivery
• Kiosk
• Computer system to access info,
perform transaction or play games.
• Convenience, reduce personnel
cost, but expensive maintenance.