- Bib ID:
- 801737
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Fluckiger, Francois
- Description:
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- London ; New York : Prentice Hall, 1995
- xxix, 620 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0131909924
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Hubert Curien
- Foreword / Vinton G. Cerf
- 1. What is multimedia?
- 2. Integrating digital information
- 3. Text, Graphics, Images, Video, Animation, Sound
- 4. Introduction to the enabling technologies
- 5. Why is multimedia so popular?
- 6. Taxonomy of multimedia applications
- 7. Audio-video interpersonal applications
- 8. Shared workspace for CSCW
- 9. Audio-video distribution in the workplace
- 10. Audio-videoconferencing
- 11. Multimedia electronic mail and multimedia document transfer
- 12. Multimedia server-based applications
- 13. Networked hypertext and hypermedia
- 14. World-Wide Web: Towards a universal information hyperspace
- 15. Virtual reality
- 16. What is a network?
- 17. Network features and performances
- 18. Networking requirements of audio and motion video
- 19. Other requirements
- 20. Clarifying several networking aspects
- 21. LANs as multimedia carriers
- 22. Packet WANs as multimedia carriers.
- 23. Circuit WANs as multimedia carriers
- 24. ATM WANs as multimedia carriers
- 25. Frame Relay and SMDS as multimedia carriers
- 26. Concluding remarks on LAN and WAN evolution
- 27. Basic digitizing techniques
- 28. Principles of compression techniques
- 29. Audio compression
- 30. Image and TV compression.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Copyright:
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