Multimedia computer A computer that can comprehensively process multimedia information such as sound, image and video. The first multimedia computer appeared in 1985. Its main function is to combine audio and video, graphic images and computer interactive control for comprehensive processing.
Generally, multimedia computer consists of four parts: multimedia hardware platform (including computer hardware, audio-visual and other input and output devices of various media), multimedia operating system (MPCOS), graphical user interface (GUI) and application tools and software supporting multimedia data development.
With the more and more extensive application of multimedia computer, it has played an important role in office automation, computer-aided work, multimedia development, education and publicity and other fields.
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Computer multimedia technology is applied in many places where we live. For example, after the combination of digital library and multimedia technology, it makes digital library more vivid and real.
Computer multimedia technology has also been applied in distance education and other fields. Northeastern University invested heavily in building a domestic distance education network, laying optical cables from Shenyang to Qinhuangdao, becoming one of the largest online education networks in China. They adopted the teaching method of combining multimedia technology with network technology, so that more students were educated by famous schools.
This shows that multimedia technology has facilitated many aspects of our lives. Due to the rapid development of computer-related technology, multimedia technology should be a mature technology in both hardware and software, but the compression and coding specifications of images and audio are still very confusing. Some compression codes have been published, while others are kept secret from the outside world, which is very unfavorable to the integration of audio and video compression codes.
In today's technical field where the idea of resource sharing and open source is the mainstream, multimedia technology also needs to integrate various audio and video compression technologies, which is more standardized and mature for multimedia technology, so that computer multimedia technology can develop better.