Design And Implementation Of A Time Based Multimedia Document Architecture

Download or read book Design and Implementation of a Time-based Multimedia Document Architecture written by James W. Emery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multimedia documents differ significantly form traditional documents that are composed of text and possibly geometric graphics. The introduction of continuous media such as audio, video, and computer generated graphics (e.g. animation) imposes new requirements on document representation. In contrast with static media (e.g. text and graphics), continuous media are presented according to a specific rate and duration. While traditional documents consists of a sequence of pages that can be read, multimedia documents are viewed as a presentation that changes continuously with time. This presentation is referred to as the playback of the document. An author creates a multimedia document that will be seen and heard by a viewer. The multimedia document creation process includes the creation of a presentation schedule to specify when the multimedia objects contained in a document will be rendered.