Multimedia and Its applications

The typical undergraduate student of today is accustomed to receive information on a daily basis in a variety of formats provided through multimedia channels. This paper provides an updated overview of research on the use of multimedia via workstation operating system (used to handle data, different processes, memory manipulation, audio and video devices etc), its application areas (manufacturing, education, business, entertainment, medical), multimedia file system(data must be presented before a deadline, data on disk should be organized in such a way that it efficiently uses the limited storage, a multimedia system must support multiple data at one time), multimedia information representation(All types of multimedia information are stored and processed within a computer in a digital form, they can be integrated together and transmitted over a single communications network), intelligent multimedia system(understands different types of input, converts one format to another format, uses the Intelligence with Knowledge performs the searching of text and object, provides the flexibility, provides different expression to understand the format of input). The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) standard addresses compression of video signals, it is a generic standard and is independent of any particular applications and loss(do not guarantee to reproduce the original input) and lossless(used when it is important that the original and the decompressed data be identical) compression algorithms.