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  2. Multimedia - Wikipedia

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    Multimedia. Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms, such as writing, audio, images, animations, or video, into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to traditional mass media, such as printed material or audio recordings, which feature little to no interaction between users.

  3. Digital media - Wikipedia

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    In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media ...

  4. Multimedia database - Wikipedia

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    A Multimedia database ( MMDB) is a collection of related for multimedia data. [1] The multimedia data include one or more primary media data types such as text, images, graphic objects (including drawings, sketches and illustrations) animation sequences, audio and video . A Multimedia Database Management System ( MMDBMS) is a framework that ...

  5. Digital video - Wikipedia

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    Digital video comprises a series of digital images displayed in rapid succession. In the context of video, these images are called frames. [e] The rate at which frames are displayed is known as the frame rate and is measured in frames per second. Every frame is a digital image and so comprises a formation of pixels.

  6. Media type - Wikipedia

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    The "type" part defines the broad use of the media type. As of November 1996, the registered types were: application, audio, image, message, multipart, text and video. By December 2020, the registered types included the foregoing, plus font, example, and model. An unofficial top-level type in common use is chemical. Subtypes

  7. Electronic media - Wikipedia

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    The primary electronic media sources familiar to the general public are video recordings, audio recordings, multimedia presentations, slide presentations, CD-ROM and online content. Most new media are in the form of digital media. However, electronic media may be in either analogue electronics data or digital electronic data format.

  8. Lossy compression - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used lossy compression algorithm is the discrete cosine transform (DCT), first published by Nasir Ahmed, T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao in 1974. Lossy compression is most commonly used to compress multimedia data (audio, video, and images), especially in applications such as streaming media and internet telephony. By contrast ...

  9. Computer graphics - Wikipedia

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    Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. A great deal of specialized hardware and software has been developed, with the displays of most ...