Task 1 - Understanding current uses of video in interactive media

In this i will be describing and explaining the meanings of each term and i will also be giving examples and also definitions.

Video Formats, eg.mov, avi

AVI - AVI stands for (Audio Video Interleave) AVI is a multimedia container format which was first introduced in November 1992 as it was part of videos for windows technology.

AVI contains most widely known video container formats within the PC industry and is found to be a good specimen for audio and video based standards for the 20th century. As said before the AVI video format was introduced in November 1992 for it's Video for Windows. The AVI has a factor for video and audio data, the AVI also supports multiple data streaming in audio and video.

MOV - MOV is used for file extension used by QuickTime-wrapped files. Quicktime was developed by Apple Computer, it's commonly used in Windows systems, and other types of computer platforms.

MOV means or stands for a special format for Apple Quick Time Player. This is also used for Macintosh as well as Windows.

Streaming

Streaming - Streaming means viewing or listening to things live on the internet, rather than not hearing it, you get to fully view the download.

Streaming means taking different files such as files video clips (Youtube) and radio. Streaming means data that has been transferred and used immediately, without having to download the actually thing entirely.

File Compression

File Compression - File Compression is used when sending a file from one computer to another computer over a connection that has limited bandwidth.

File compression is something that is used when sending data from one computer to another, which has a limited bandwidth, this compression usually has the files much smaller so that the sending is faster. But when compressing a file to another computer it must have a program that will decompress so that the file is returned to normal and is than used.

Aspect Ratios

Aspect Ratios - Aspect Ratios is an image that has the ratio of width of the image to its height, shown as two numbers apart by a colon.

Aspect Ratios is the width to the height of a TV picture. 16:9 and 4:3 are referred to the picture length to picture width.