Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Digital Container Format, Uncompressed Video, Digital Media Player

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

A file format that stores both the data (the frames) and how to play the data (which codec to use) oavi- sometimes has uncompressed video omov oflv (swf is not a container file format) o. ogg omkv. Digital media player: piece of software that will play multimedia files (audio or video) 3 main ways to get media from a website onto a computer odownload: The entire video must be downloaded to your computer. Data is sent permanently stored on the end machine oprogressive download ostreaming. Video will begin to play after some portion has been downloaded. The player calculates the speed of the download and guesses when to play. Data sent is permanently stored on the end machine. Media that is constantly received by and displayed to an end user while being delivered by a streaming provider. File is never permanently saved to the users computer. Begins to play as soon as it gets a packet.