Virtually all content found on the Web and corporate intranet sites today is text or graphic images. Multimedia adds tremendous impact and value to communications with users or clients. Multimedia on the Web or intranets enlivens content such as entertainment, news delivery, product training, internal communications, distance learning, customer support, promotional messages and specialized video presentations. Until there are dramatic end to end improvements in bandwidth from server to the desktop, file size will continue to be the key issue regarding multimedia. MPEG-1 offers the best possible image quality, resolution, frame rate, and synchronized audio in the smallest possible file.
Small files mean shorter download times and allow for playing audio and video in realtime.
Using MPEG Showsite standard MPEG-1 media files can be manufactured at varying frame rates ranging from 30 fps, to 15 fps, to 7.5 fps to 5 fps for swifter downloading or streaming in realtime. Training The training market has historically used laser disc players to deliver high quality video. MPEG-1 is an ideal replacement for the analog laser disc player. The advantages of MPEG are lower costs, ease of delivery, ease of updating and networking capability. The training market is a large user of video gear and MPEG is considered a main stream product for this application.