An introduction, Multimedia elements, Multimedia Applications, Multimedia System Architecture, Evolving Technologies for Multimedia Systems, Defining Objects for Multimedia systems, Multimedia Data Interface Standard, The need for data Compression, Multimedia databases, Compression and Decompression, Types of compression, Binary Image Compression schemes, Color, Gray Scale, Still-video image Compression, Video Image Compression, Audio Compression, Fractal Compression.

Data and Format Standards, Rich-text Format, TIFF File Format, Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF), MIDI File Format, JPEG DIB File Format for still and Motion Images, MPEG standards, TWIN, Multimedia input/output Technologies, Key Technology Issues, Pen Input, Video and Image Display systems, Print Output Technologies, Image Scanners, Digital Voice and Audio, Digital Camera, Video Images and Animation, Full-Motion Video.

Storage and Retrieval Technologies, Magnetic Media Technology, Optical Media, Hierarchical Storage Management, Cache management for storage systems, Multimedia Application Design, Multimedia application classes, Types of multimedia systems, Virtual reality design, Components of multimedia systems, Organizing multimedia databases, Application workflow design issues, Distributed Application design issues.

Multimedia Authoring and User Interface, Multimedia authoring system, Hypermedia application design consideration, User interface design, Object display/playback issues, Multimedia Operating Systems Introduction, real time, Resource management, process management, file systems, Additional operating systems issues.

Multimedia Database Systems, Multimedia database management systems, Characteristics of MDBMS, Data analysis, Data structure, Operation on data, Integration on database model, Distributed Multimedia Systems, Components of distributed multimedia systems, Distributed client server operation, Multimedia object servers, multiserver network, Topologies, Distributed multimedia database, Managing distributed objects.