1. MULTIMEDIA FILE HANDLING
DATA & FILE FORMAT STANDARDS

2. INTRODUCTION
Sharing Data Among Multiple Application and Exchange information among Multiple Systems

3. 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
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4. Rich Text Format
Tagged Image file Format
Resource Image File Format
Musical Instrument Digital Interfaces
JPEG
Audio Video Interleaved AVI Indeo File Format
TWAIN

5. RICH TEXT FORMAT Formatting Information
Lost in Transformation & Re-entered for Printing

6. 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.,

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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
Intro to CS. 10/Multimedia Data