QUESTION ONE – 30 MARKS
a. Differentiate between hypertext and hypermedia. (2 Marks) b. What are the components of multimedia? (4 Marks) c. Differentiate between MPEG and JPEG. (2 Marks) d. What is digitization? (2 Marks) e. What is multimedia authoring? Discuss multimedia authoring tools. (5 Marks) f. What is MIDI? List and briefly explain the components of MIDI? (5 Marks) g. Explain the characteristics of multimedia systems. (5 Marks) h. What is compression? Differentiate between lossy and lossless compression. (5 Marks)
QUESTION TWO – 20 MARKS
a. Explain any five multimedia software tools. (5 Marks) b. Discuss the data file formats in multimedia. (5 Marks) c. List the types of multimedia presentation. (2 Marks) d. Explain the terms World Wide Web and MHEG. (4 Marks) e. Explain types of Audio in Multimedia applications. (4 Marks)
QUESTION THREE – 20 MARKS
a. A bitmap image has resolution pixels. Each pixel is 24-bit deep. What is the size of the bitmap in bytes. (4 Marks) b. Discuss the MPEG 4 structured audio. (8 Marks) c. Discuss the Digital Video Disk (DVD) giving its features and disadvantages. (8 Marks)
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QUESTION FOUR – 20 MARKS
a. What are the goals of MPEG-7 (4 Marks) b. Discuss the MPEG-7 description schemes for content management. (5 Marks) c. Discuss the Digital Video Coding (DVC) structure. (5 Marks) d. Discuss temporal redundancy. (3 Marks) e. Discuss temporal predictive coding for video. (3 Marks)
QUESTION FIVE – 20 MARKS
a. Discuss any four lossless compression algorithms. (8 Marks) b. List and explain 8 levels of RAID. (12 Marks