Module 1

Part A
1. What is representation medium?
2. Briefly explain the different properties of multimedia systems.
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What are the main properties of multimedia system?

What do you mean by strongly periodic and weakly periodic of data stream.
What are the components available in MIDI Synthesizer device?
How continuous media data is different from discrete data.

7. Write a note on SMPTE timing standards.

8. Write note on system messages.
9. What is sampling rate?

Part B
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Explain the datastream characteristics of continuous media.

Explain various tasks in speech analysis.
Write a note on MIDI and explain MIDI devices.
Discuss the basic concepts of sound.
Discuss in detail about speech generation.

Module 2
Part A
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Discuss the dynamics in graphics?

List the features of High definition TV.
Explain about the H.261 video compression method
Write a note on MPEG

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How digital image are stored.

What are the image representation format used for transmission?
How transmission of animation over computer networks are performed?
State the basic objectives of MPEG -4 standard.

Part B
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Explain different data compression methods.

Describe the architecture of a raster display.
Explain various steps in data compression.
Explain the concept of image processing.
What are the important measures to be considered for the visual representation of a video
signal?
6. What are the four types of frame coding used in MPEG for efficient coding? Explain

Module 3

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Discuss about the file systems in multimedia OS.

Describe the features of multimedia File Systems.
Explain the real-time characteristics of multimedia OS.
Write a note on real time transport protocol.

5. Distinguish between centralized architecture and replicated architecture

Part B
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Write a note on QoS and Resource Management.

Explain the process management in multimedia OS.
Discuss quality of service with respect to multimedia communication system.
Briefly discuss about various scheduling algorithm.
Examine the IP properties which are relevant to multimedia transmission.

Module 4
Part A
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Discuss the operations in MDBMS.

Write a note on ODA.
What all ways can data stored in a multimedia database?
Explain about MHEG.

Part B
1. What is MDBMS and discuss its characteristics
2. Describe various models of MDBMS.
3. Write a note on Hypertext and Hypermedia
4. Describe the features of SGML.
5. Enumerate on the characteristics of Multimedia DBMS.
6. Discuss in detail about document architecture SGML.

Module 5
Part A
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What are the Presentation requirements for synchronization?

Explain about HyTime.
What is spatial relation, Content Relation & Temporal relation?
Write a note on object layer.
How individual audio sequences are classified.
What is intra object synchronization and inter object synchronization? Give example.
What are the categories of synchronization specification method?

Part B

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Explain the need of synchronization in multimedia systems.

Explain the presentation requirements with respect to synchronization.
Explain the Reference model for synchronization
Explain live and synthetic synchronization.
5. Explain synchronization reference model with diagram.