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Foil 20 Some (New) Web Technologies in a Nutshell - MultiMedia

From Overview of CPS616 Technologies of the Information Age 1997 CPS616 spring 1997 -- Jan 15 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
Secs 217.4 Addon(Prepared for SC96)
Digital Video and Audio. This will enable collaboration and dissemination of fixed assets (audio/video clips) stored in multi-media databases or of information encoded in real-time.
  • RealAudio commercial product uses wavelet-like compression and delivers AM quality audio over 28.8Kbaud lines. Therefore works on Internet and can combine with images (or Interactive Java animations) for Web Conferencing and Consulting
Note these are typically streaming and not "batch" approachs. Current default Web downloads video to client before playing and this approach cannot scale!
Can use traditional (relational) databases to store metadata and text with which to index video.
Digital video works well over ISDN (128 kbits) but for full screen needs about .5 megabits per second even with wavelets
This will be CNN/Network digital delivery technology for future infinite cable channel world
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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