MULTIMEDIA & INTERNET

Joaquín David García Pérez – Inglés III - jdgp@alu.ua.es

Outline

1) The beginning

2) Multimedia system

3) Types

4) On the Web

5) Examples

6) Links

History of multimedia

• Combined use of media.

• 1965: Experimental lighting, cinema and performance art.

• 1970: Multi-projector slides and audio track

• 1990: Combination of media

Rich media

Multimedia system

• Applications• Program

interfaces• Encoding

• SOFTWARE:

• HARDWARE:• Buses

• Processors

• Memory

Types of media

- We read texts

- Multimedia 'r us

- We look at pictures:colors, forms,...

- We listen to sounds

- Your life is like a movie:

Graphics + Animation = Video

Multimedia on the Web

- Hypertext

- Photographs

- Movies and

streaming video

- Music and radio

File formats

- Text: .txt, .pdf, .doc, .html

- Sound: .wav, .aif, .ogg, .mp3

- Images: .gif, .jpg, .bmp

- Video: .avi, .mov, .mpeg, .wmv

Doubts about Multimedia

Useful Links

UOC Multimedia degree: http://www.uoc.edu/web/esp/estudios/estudios_uoc/gmmd/gmmd_plan.ht

Wikipedia definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia#History_of_the_term

File Extension: http://filext.com/