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Multimedia System Architecture Multimedia encompasses a large variety of technologies and integration of multiple architectures interacting in real-time. The   following figure describes the architecture of a multimedia workstation environment. The left side shows non-multimedia systems. The right side shows multimedia extensions, multimedia driver support, Add-on multimedia devices and peripherals for supporting multimedia applications. For each special devices such as scanners, video cameras, VCRs and sound equipment-, a software device driver needs to provide the interface from an application to the device. The GUI requires control extensions to support applications such as full-motion video. The various graphics standards such as MCA, GGA and XGA have demonstrated the increasing demands for higher resolutions for GUls. Combined graphics and imaging applications require functionality at three levels. They are provided...

What is Multimedia? It means that the computer’s information can be represented through audio, video and animation in addition to traditional media (i.e. text, graphics, images). Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawing and moving images, animations, audios and many other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally. Multimedia Application is an application which uses a collection of multiple media sources. Components of Multimedia:   Text is the primary component mostly information can be presented with the help of text. It can be emphasize using font, Colors, styles, size. Graphics is the digital representation of non-text information such as drawing, photographs, etc. Audio can be music, speech or any other sound. It is normally combined with the animation medium. Video represent moving images and display the sequence of the slightly varied pictu...