Multimedia is already the main growth area of PC computing, and its importance is set to increase as the already large selection of CD ROMs becomes even greater and less costly. This book explains how to create your own multimedia package that contains text, your own photos (if you have a scanner), a soundtrack with your own voice recorded as commentary even animation and edited video footage. You'll also find out how to hear your typed text spoken by your computer.

A practical "how to" guide about Multimedia for the PC covering Multimedia PCs and authoring Multimedia applications. The book features extensive and detailed examples of how multimedia applications are authored. This is above all a practical book, not descriptive or theoretical, about Multimedia PCs and applications.

Turn your computer into a "multimedia monster" with hundreds of tips and techniques from the experts at Compaq Computer Corporation. Learn how to get smoother video, richer audio, and faster load times for maximum performance. The CD is packed with multimedia graphics viewers, troubleshooting utilities, and demo programs.

Multimedia Applications discusses the basic characteristics of multimedia document handling, programming, security, human computer interfaces, and multimedia application services. The overall goal of the book is to provide a broad understanding of multimedia systems and applications in an integrated manner: a multimedia application and its user interface must be developed in an integrated fashion with underlying multimedia middleware, operating systems, networks, security, and multimedia devices. Fundamental information and properties of hypermedia document handling, multimedia security and various aspects of multimedia applications are presented, especially about document handling and their standards, programming of multimedia applications, design of multimedia information at human computer interfaces, multimedia security challenges such as encryption and watermarking, multimedia in education, as well as multimedia applications to assist preparation, processing and application of multimedia content.

Multimedia computing has emerged as a major area of research. Coupled with high-speed networks, multimedia computer systems have opened a spectrum of new applications by combining a variety of information sources, such as voice, graphics, animation, images, audio, and video. Handbook on Multimedia Computing provides a comprehensive resource on advanced topics in this field, considered here as the integration of four industries: computer, communication, broadcasting/entertainment, and consumer electronics. This indispensable reference compiles contributions from 80 academic and industry leaders, examining all the major subsets of multimedia activity. Four parts divide the text: Basic Concepts and Standards introduces basic multimedia terminology, taxonomy, and concepts, including multimedia objects, user interfaces, and standards Multimedia Retrieval and Processing Techniques addresses various aspects of audio, image, and video retrieval; indexing; and processing techniques and systems Multimedia Systems and Techniques covers critical multimedia issues, such as multimedia synchronization, operating systems for multimedia, multimedia databases, storage organizations, and processor architectures Multimedia Communications and Networking discusses networking issues, such as quality of service, resource management, and video transport An indispensable reference, Handbook on Multimedia Computing covers every aspect of multimedia applications and technology. It gives you the tools you need to understand and work in this fast-paced, continuously changing field.