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• Introduction to Multimedia
  • About This Course
    • Aims of Module
    • Objectives of Module
    • Syllabus Outline
    • Recommended Course Books
  • Introduction
    • History of Multimedia Systems
    • Multimedia/Hypermedia
      • What is Multimedia?
      • What is HyperText and HyperMedia?
    • Multimedia Systems
      • Characteristics of a Multimedia System
      • Challenges for Multimedia Systems
      • Desirable Features for a Multimedia System
      • Components of a Multimedia System
    • Applications
    • Trends in Multimedia
    • Further Reading/Exploration
• Multimedia Authoring
  • Multimedia Authoring:Systems and Applications
    • What is an Authoring System?
      • Why should you use an authoring system?
    • Multimedia Authoring Paradigms
    • Multimedia Programming vs Multimedia Authoring
    • Issues in Multimedia Applications Design
      • Content Design
      • Technical Design
      • Visual Design
    • Storyboarding
    • Overview of Multimedia Software Tools
      • Digital Audio
      • Music Sequencing and Notation
      • Image/Graphics Editing
      • Image/Graphics Editing
      • Animation
      • Multimedia Authoring
    • Further Information
  • Multimedia Programming:Scripting (Lingo)
    • Director programming/Lingo Scripting
    • Director Basics
    • Overview and Definitions
    • The Score and the Stage
    • Using The Score
    • The playback head
    • Channels
    • Frames
    • Sprites
    • Cast members
    • Lingo
    • Markers
    • Editing Frames
    • Identifying Frames with Lingo
    • Lingo Scripting
    • When does Lingo run?
    • The Lingo language
    • Dot Syntax
    • Parentheses
    • Character spaces
    • Comments
    • Optional keywords and abbreviated commands
    • Literal Values
    • Identifying cast members and casts
    • Lingo operators
    • Lingo Lists
    • Types of Scripts
    • Messages and Events
    • Director Example 1: Simple Animation
    • Director Example 2:Importing media
    • Director Example 3:Simple Lingo Scripting
    • Director Example 4:Controlling Navigation with Lingo
  • Multimedia Programming:Tagging (SMIL)
    • What it is SMIL?
      • SMIL support
    • Running SMIL Applications
      • Using Quicktime
      • Using RealPlayer G2
      • Using the SOJA applet
      • another SMILE viewer:GRINS
    • Let us begin to SMIL -- SMIL Authoring
    • SMIL Syntax Overview
      • Basic Layout
      • SMIL Layout
      • Positioning Media
    • fitting media to regions
      • Synchronisation
      • SMIL Events
    • SMIL ON
• Multimedia Technology
  • Multimedia Systems Technology
    • Discrete v continuous media
    • Analog and Digital Signals
    • Input Devices and Storage
      • Text and Static Data
      • Graphics
      • Images
      • Audio
      • Video
    • Output Devices
    • Storage Media
      • High performance I/O
      • Basic Storage
      • RAID -- Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
      • Optical Storage
      • CD Storage
      • DVD
      • DVD and computers
• Multimedia Data
  • Multimedia Data Representations
    • Basics of Digital Audio
      • Application of Digital Audio -- Selected Examples
      • Digitization of Sound
      • Digitizing Audio
      • Computer Manipulation of Sound
      • Sample Rates and Bit Size
      • Nyquist's Sampling Theorem
      • Implications of Sample Rate and Bit Size
      • Typical Audio Formats
      • Delivering Audio over a Network
    • Synthetic Sounds
    • Introduction to MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
      • Components of a MIDI System
      • Hardware Aspects of MIDI
      • MIDI Messages
      • General MIDI
      • Digital Audio and MIDI
      • Digital Audio, Synthesis, Midi and Compression -- MPEG 4 Structured Audio
      • MPEG 4 Structured Audio
      • Further Reading/Information for Digital Audio and Midi
    • Graphic/Image File Formats
      • Graphic/Image Data Structures
      • Standard System Independent Formats
      • System Dependent Formats
      • Further Reading/Information
    • Colour in Image and Video
      • Basics of Colour
      • CIE Chromaticity Diagram
      • Colour Image and Video Representations
      • Summary of Colour
    • Basics of Video
      • Types of Colour Video Signals
      • Analog Video
      • Digital Video
      • Chroma Subsampling
      • Further Reading/Information
  • Video and Audio Compression
    • Classifying Compression Algorithms
      • What is Compression?
    • Lossless Compression Algorithms (Repetitive Sequence Suppression)
      • Simple Repetition Suppresion
      • Run-length Encoding
    • Lossless Compression Algorithms (Pattern Substitution)
    • Lossless Compression Algorithms (Entropy Encoding)
      • Basics of Information Theory
      • The Shannon-Fano Algorithm
      • Huffman Coding
      • Huffman Coding of Images
      • Adaptive Huffman Coding
      • Arithmetic Coding
      • Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) Algorithm
      • Entropy Encoding Summary
      • Further Reading/Information
    • Source Coding Techniques
      • Transform Coding
      • Frequency Domain Methods
      • Fourier Theory
      • The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT)
      • Differential Encoding
      • Vector Quantisation
    • JPEG Compression
      • Quantization
      • Zig-zag Scan
      • Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM) on DC component
      • Run Length Encode (RLE) on AC components
      • Entropy Coding
      • Summary of the JPEG bitstream
      • Practical JPEG Compression
      • Further Reading
    • Video Compression
    • H. 261 Compression
      • Overview of H.261
      • Intra Frame Coding
      • Inter-frame (P-frame) Coding
      • The H.261 Bitstream Structure
      • Hard Problems in H.261
    • MPEG Compression
      • MPEG Video
      • The MPEG Video Bitstream
      • Decoding MPEG Video in Software
      • Further Reading/Information
    • Audio Compression
      • Simple Audio Compression Methods
      • Psychoacoustics
      • MPEG Audio Compression
      • Streaming Audio (and video)
      • Further Exploration
  • Multimedia Integration, Interaction and Interchange
    • Integrating Multimedia
    • Interactive Multimedia
    • Multimedia Interchange
    • Quicktime
      • Introduction
      • Quicktime Support of Media Formats
      • QuickTime Concepts
      • The QuickTime Architecture
      • QuickTime Components
      • Quicktime File Format
      • Further Information
    • Open Media Framework Interchange (OMFI) Format
    • Multimedia and Hypermedia Information Encoding Expert Group (MHEG)
      • The family of MHEG standards
      • MHEG-5 overview
      • MHEG Programming Principles
      • Interaction within a Scene
      • Availability; Running Status
      • Interactibles
      • Visual Representation
      • Object Sharing Between Scenes
      • Object Encoding
      • Conformance
      • MHEG Coding Examples
      • An MHEG Player Java Applet -- Futher MHEG Examples
      • Relationships to Major Standards
      • MHEG Implementation
      • MHEG Future
      • Further Reading/Information

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