Contents Home 3. Multimedia can be as simple as a few images with some accompanying text to a multimedia presentation using video clips, sound, images animation and text.
Multimedia files to use a lot of data when in a digital format.
Video is the most demanding. A PAL signal when digitised can require a data rate of 170 Mbps. Audio is less demanding but still requires 1.3 MByte for a 1 minute clip using a Sound Blaster Pro system at 22 kHz sampling rate. Still images require use more data proportional to their size. Synchronisation of sound and video is important.