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Foil 43 Some (New) Web Technologies in a Nutshell - MultiMedia

From Overview of Web Technologies NPAC Web Programming Course at JSU -- August 19,1997. by Geoffrey Fox *
(Prepared for SC96)
1 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
2 Note these are typically streaming and not "batch" approachs. Current default Web downloads video to client before playing and this approach cannot scale!
3 Can use traditional (relational) databases to store metadata and text with which to index video.
4 Digital video works well over ISDN (128 kbits) but for full screen needs about .5 megabits per second even with wavelets
5 This will be CNN/Network digital delivery technology for future infinite cable channel world

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