Processing!
- 1. PROCESSING!
- 2. Integration of text and/or numbers, audio, video and images • Interleaving, is where items of data from different sources, such as video and audio, are stored alternatively on the storage media to reduce retrieval delays. The integration of a range of forms of information leads to increased storage requirements.
- 3. COMPRESSION & DECOMPRESSION • Compression is a method of removing redundant or repetitive elements from a file so that the file requires less storage space and thus less time to transmit. Compression schemes are: lossless = no data lost and lossy = small amounts of data lost to allow compression. • Compressed data must be decompressed to extract the original information. There are of standard compressed file formats for different media, such as JPEG for images and MPEG for video.
- 4. HYPERMEDIA • A concept that is utilized in multimedia is called hypermedia. Hypermedia refers to the linking of data types. For example clicking on a particular section of the screen may cause additional text to be displayed or the user to jump to a different section of the program. hypertext is the text that is linked into other sections