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What are Multimedia Systems?

A system that is capable of carrying out the processing of applications and multimedia data is called a multimedia system. It includes data storage, processing, information security, programs, equipment, generation, rendition, and manipulation of multimedia information.

Multimedia systems are used in all information systems such as executive decision systems, transaction processing systems, and so on in the organizations. These systems are also used in several other industries like communications, accounting, insurance, banking, education, entertainment, medical, real estate, manufacturing, retailing, etc.

No matter what industry it is, when there is a need to combine audio, video, graphics, sound, animation, and text, multimedia systems will come into play.

Multimedia systems are also used for security purposes like protecting the stored information and keeping the trespassers out of the lane. Stored documents, texts, sound files, pictures, and video files can be protected using encryption methods. 

Different forms of multimedia systems

  • Computer-based systems
  • Analog systems
  • Sound processing
  • Animation and virtual reality
  • Still image processing
  • Text processing
  • Full motion video processing
  • Computer-based systems - PCs use 0s and 1s for storing and processing sounds, pictures, and motion video. Digital imaging, Text filtering, Sound cards, and analog video capturing devices sample, compressing and converting analog media into a progression of 0s and 1s signals for processing by a PC. When analog media are changed over to digital format, a PC can be utilized to control the different media. With the improvement of advanced camcorders, digital still cameras, media are now in a structure that the PC can measure, making it simpler to combine text, illustrations, video, sounds, and liveliness into an app.
  • Analog systems - Analog media systems utilize tapes, photographs, books, films, records, videotapes, and numerous different types of media to store text, sounds, and pictures. As innovation improves, converting from one medium then onto the next and combining distinctive media formats gets troublesome and unwieldy. 

Simple systems are being supplanted with systems that digitize the original documents and preserve them on digital media. Simple systems stay imperative for historic, lawful, and research purposes. Numerous new organizations have appeared for the sole reason for changing over analog media into digital formats.

  • Sound processing - Sound in multimedia applications allows the user to improve a presentation, describe products, provide instructions, or give cues for some action by the viewer. Hardware for catching and preparing sounds involves a card appended to the principal motherboard of the PC system. 

Sound application software is utilized to choose gadgets and to capture, edit, and save sounds in digital files. The user can add several effects, for example, fade-out, fade-in, and the reverberation effect to the digital sound clip. Several competing file storage standards rely upon the developers of the software. The more a given standard is utilized, the more versatile the file is to different users and internet applications.

  • Animation and virtual reality - The most complex forms of multimedia are virtual reality and animation. These systems collaborate sound, animation, still graphics, and video to form virtual-reality outputs. Industries utilizing this tech involve architecture and construction, education and training, legal, government and transportation, and entertainment. Animated films and PC games have a huge demand and need all the multimedia forms for development.

This process requires powerful software and computers to gather, alter, and produce the title, introduction, or product. For example, computer-assisted design, home improvement software, and computer games that enable users to design and display a proposed project in flight simulators, simulation of a crash for accident investigation, and 3D.

  • Still-image processing - Several forms of multimedia involve multimedia systems that are specially designed for carrying out business forms, graphics, images, or pictures.

Insurance agencies use imaging systems to claim forms, scan insurance applications, guarantee structures, and pictures of harms to clients property. The imaging systems give prompt admittance to all data put away in a PC for handling a case. In exchange for preparing systems, organizations can digitize user marks on sales slips and store the first deals records for verification of procurement utilizing retail location gadgets. 

  • Text processing - Text is the easiest level in the multimedia chain of importance. The text has been entered straightforwardly into the PC. Scanners that are equipped with optical character recognition software permit text to be scanned into a PC from Universal Product Codes on products, using held scanners or printed documents.

The complex text input includes voice pattern recognition systems that convert voice to messaging. These applications discover their way into healthcare, legal, and other enterprises and organizations that cycle tremendous measures of text. Text-to-voice systems switch this cycle and permit text to be perused to the user.

  • Full motion video processing - Various methods have been discovered for the compression of motion video files. Video is compressed to save it as a small file and again decompressed during playback. Many codec systems use hardware including computer chips and software, for example, MPEG. Since video documents are enormous, they are typically brief recordings from the video. These clips are utilized on web pages, business presentations, product descriptions, and other media bytes to justify a major point within a short span. Advances in speed and storage capacity of the latest storage media will allow smoother and longer clips. 

Live video streaming from the websites stores large video clips on the website and will allow the clip to stream in small segments for the user.

Components of multimedia systems

The components of multimedia systems are divided into five categories -

  • Storage devices
  • Computer systems
  • Capture devices
  • Display devices
  • Communication networks
  • Storage devices - Compact disc, Bluray disc, Hard disk drive, Digital versatile disc, Zip drive.
  • Computer systems - Capture card, Processor, Display card, RAM, Sound card, Desktop computer
  • Capture devices - Tactile sensor, Video recorder, Keyboard, Video camera, Audio microphone, Sampling hardware, 3D input device, Graphics tablet, VR devices, Mice
  • Display devices - Projector, High-resolution monitor, Colour printer, High-quality speaker
  • Communication networks - Internet, Token ring, Asynchronous transfer mode, Ethernet, Intranet, Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)

Characteristics of multimedia systems

A multimedia system has 4 characteristics. 

  1. They are integrated.
  2. The final presentation interface of the media is interactive.
  3. They must be computer-controlled.
  4. The data they handle must be represented digitally.


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