MULTIMEDIA FILE HANDLING DATA & FILE FORMAT STANDARDS
INTRODUCTION Sharing Data Among Multiple Application and Exchange information among Multiple Systems
Multimedia Formats File Format Type of File Filename Extension Sun Systems sound audio .au Windows sound .wav Audio interchange .aiff, .aifc RealAudio audio stream .ra, .ram CompuServe GIF graphics .gif JPEG .jpg, .jpeg Windows Bitmap .bmp QuickTime video .mov, .moov, .qt Video for Windows .avi MPEG video .mpg, .mpeg All copyrights reserved by C.C. Cheung 2003. CSC1720 – Introduction to Internet
Rich Text Format Tagged Image file Format Resource Image File Format Musical Instrument Digital Interfaces JPEG Audio Video Interleaved AVI Indeo File Format TWAIN
RICH TEXT FORMAT Formatting Information Lost in Transformation & Re-entered for Printing
RICH TEXT FORMAT Character Set – Boarders, Drawing Boxes,Etc., Font Table Color Table Document Formatting Section Formatting Paragraph Formatting General Formatting – Footnotes, Bookmark, Picture Character Formatting – Bold, Italic, underline, Strike through,Shadow text, Hidden Text, Outline Text.... Special Charcters – blackslashes Etc.,
Tagged Image File Format(TIFF) Industries ORIENTED Sequential File Formatting Information about resolution, Color, Compression Scheme ,Date & Time of Capture, Author Easily Search the Location Version 6.0
VERSION 6 VERSION 5 Color Models Compression Techniques Class B – Binary Images F – Fax G – Gray Scale P –Palette Color R – RGB Full Color Image
RESOURCE INTERCHANGE FILE FORMATS RIFF Chunk – content List Chunk – Additional Information – Creation Date, Copyright Information, Etc., Sub Chunk – Adding More Information – Primary Chunk is not Sufficient
MIDI MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) files contain instructions that MIDI sound cards use to play the sounds. MIDI is like a music score, played by MIDI 'instruments' in the sound card MIDI files are much smaller than waveform files 3 minutes of music can be stored in a ~10 KB file 000-209 Intro to CS. 10/Multimedia Data