MULTIMEDIA

• Multimedia is content that uses a combination

Definition
" The combination of different types of media in
the communication of information between
two users and their computers"- Newton
 Components of Multimedia
1.Text:- basic component of Multimedia. It was
originally defined by printed media such as
books and newspapers that used various
typefaces to display the alphabet, numbers
and special characters.
2.Images:- An image is a visual representation
of something. An image is a picture that has
been created or copied and stored in
electronic form. An image can be described in
terms of vector graphics or raster graphics. An
3. Animation:- consists of still images displayed
so quickly that they give the impression of
continuous movement.
4. Sound/Audio:- It is meaningful speech in any
language , from a whisper to a scream.
5. video:- The display of recorded real events on
a television type screen. The embedding of
video in multimedia applications is a powerful
way to convey information.
 FILE FORMATS
• The file format is the structure of a file that
tells a program how to display its
contents.Even if another program can open
the file, it may not have all the features
needed to display the document correctly.
• It is a standard way that information is
encoded for storage in a computer.
• It may be proprietary or free.
 Common file formats
• Text formats
• Image formats
• Video formats
• Audio formats
 Text file formats
1.DOC general, doc is shorthand for a word
document. In computing, .doc is a file
extension associated with WordPad and other
word processing programs. Microsoft Word is
a good example of a word processor that can
view .doc files.
2. DOCX The DOCX file format is used by
Microsoft Word 2007 and later versions. It
uses the .docx file extension, and is designed
to replace the DOC file format used in
3. RTF Short for rich text format, RTF is a mix
between rich text files and plaintext files.
Unlike text files, RTF files offer some
formatting features like bold, italic, underline,
bullets, different fonts, and text justification.
However, it does not provide all of the
features found in a full word processor.An
example of an RTF editor is Microsoft
WordPad.
4. .txt is a file extension for a plaintext file.
Plaintext is any text, text file, or document
that contains only text. Unlike a rich-text
5. WPS is a file extension used with Microsoft
Works versions 6 to Microsoft Works version
9. For users who need to open a Microsoft
Works files, you can still use Microsoft Word
to open these files.
6. PDF (Portable Document Format)
It is a file format used to present documents
in a manner independent of software ,
hardware, and operating systems.
Developed in 1993. Earlier known as
camelot,developed by Adobe corporation.
Was a proprietary format controlled by
 Image file formats
1. BMP is often used to describe the extension
of the image. If shown, the picture is an
example of a BMP image done in MSPaint.
2. GIF (The Graphics Interchange Format) is a
bitmap image format that was developed by a
team at the online services provider
CompuServe led by American computer
scientist Steve Wilhite on June 15, 1987. It has
since come into widespread usage on the
World Wide Web due to its wide support and
3. Joint Photographic Experts Group, JPEG is a
digital image compression format, and one of
the most popular image types shown on the
Internet and used with digital camera. The
JPEG standard uses a lossy sacrificed to
achieve greater compression. JPEG is also
abbreviated as JPG in the file extension used
with IBM compatible computers. The image is
an example of a JPEG image.
4. Portable Network Graphics, PNG is
pronounced as either P-N-G or ping. It is a
bitmapped image format featuring lossless
compression.PNG was created as a
5. tagged image file format, TIFF is a common
way to store bitmap images that can be
viewed and edited on both IBM compatible
and Apple Macintosh computers.A TIFF file
can have a file extension of .tiff or .tif. Either
file extension is acceptable, and they can be
opened by most photo viewer and editor
software programs.
 Video file formats
1. Audio Video Interleave, AVI is the standard
file format used for video files under Microsoft
Windows. The maximum size of an AVI file is 2
GB.
2. MP4, MPEG4, or MPEG-4 is an audio and
video compression standard. It was introduced
in 1998 and agreed upon as a standard by the
MPEG (Motion Picture Experts Group) shortly
after.Codecs and technologies which use the
MPEG-4 standard include DivX, Xvid,
3. Mov is a file extension of an Apple QuickTime
movie.
4. Windows Media Video, WMV is a
compressed video file format developed by
Microsoft. It supports multiple video codecs
for streaming of video on the Internet. The file
extension of WMV files is .WMV.
5. MKV files are actually multimedia container
formats. An MKV container can incorporate
audio, video, and subtitles into a single file—
even if those elements use different types of
encoding.
 Audio file formats
1. Musical Instrument Digital Interface, MIDI is a
standard for digitally representing and
transmitting sounds that was first developed
in the 1980s. The MIDI sound is played back
through the hardware device or computer
either through a synthesized audio sound or a
waveform stored on the hardware device or
computer. The quality of how MIDI sounds
when played back by the hardware device or
computer depends upon that device's
2. MP3, A file extension and compression
method that utilizes the MPEG standard to
reduce the size, often by a factor of 12, while
still maintaining audio quality comparable to a
CD. MP3 files are commonly used to store a
song or the whole CD and require very little
hard drive space. Because of their small file
size, a computer can save several hundred or
thousands of songs.
3. Windows Media Audio, WMA is a file format
developed by Microsoft for the encoding of
digital audio files. Capable of the same quality
as an MP3 with a higher compression rate,
WMA achieves acceptable audio quality with
bitrates as low as 64 kbps.
4. WAV, Waveform Audio File Format is a file
format and file extension ending with .WAV
that was created by Microsoft and IBM and
was first widely introduced with the release of
Microsoft Windows 95. WAV files were an
early way of playing audio files on the
computer that have been replaced today with