topical slide(s): creative technology / new media / game development(s)

learning objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to demonstrate the necessity of compression, to discuss criteria for the selection of codecs and mention some of the alternatives, to characterize the MPEG-4 and SMIL standards, to explain the difference between MPEG-4 and MPEG-2, and to speculate about the feasibility of a semantic multimedia web.

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