MULTIMEDIA
The previous of windows and DOS were not designed to support multimedia, therefore the multimedia presentations were either not running very slowly. With Windows 95, things are improved as it supports multimedia at the base level, as discussed below;
- Multimedia presentation require more than one media, and Windows 95 is a 32 bit, Multitasking and multithreading operating system. This assure plating more than one media smoothly and more responsive to user interaction.
- During installation procedure of Windows 95, it automatically detects and configures itself for multimedia devces.
- Windows 95 allows you to create compounded documents that include sound, video, graphics, charts, pictures, and other elements from various applications.
- A new CD-Rom file system in Windows 95 improves CD-Rom performance.
Multimedia types;
The different media types are either audio or visual. Multimedia information is stored in sound, video, or MIDI file format.
Audio;
Recording and playing back sound were the first multimedia application fro personal computers. With the help of installed sound card, you could record a voice, store it in file on disk and play back the same sound on another computer. Music and sound can be recorded for computer generated presentation.
WAVE audio- Actual sound waves are recorded and converted to digital data;
MIDI Audio- It is the recording of keystrokes or other actions that direct synthesis and the MIDI compactable electronic Music devices to generate sound. Thus these files are similar in size.
Videos:
This media includes the following files;
Animation-The first thing that comes in mind are the animation movies like jungle book. Animation is the images that move on the screen. The animation movies include these kinds of images and sound.
Video-The videos pictures can be recorded from cameras or laser discs into a computer and store it on the disk. To capture High quality video and store it efficiently these files needed to be compressed.
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