JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

Course Objectives:

This course aims to further develop students’ competency in producing dynamic and creative graphic solutions for multimedia productions. It provides students with the basic concepts and techniques of interactive authoring. It also introduces students with the advanced scripting skills necessary for implementing highly interactive, rich internet applications using multimedia technologies and authoring tools. Students will develop aesthetic value and competencies in multimedia authoring. Artistic visual style and layout design are stressed, as well as the editing and integration of graphic images, animation, video, and audio files. The course allows students to master industry-wide software and technologies to create highly interactive, rich internet applications.

UNIT - I

Introduction to Multimedia: Internet and Multimedia communications, Multimedia Networks, Multimedia Applications, Multimedia Information representation- Digitization Principles, Text, Images, Audio and Video, Compression Methods-Basic Coding Methods – Run Length coding, Huffman coding, Arithmetic coding, Discrete Cosine Transform, Differential PCM, Motion Compensated Prediction, Video Compression – JPEG, H.261, MPEG-1 Video, MPEG 2 and 3 Video, H.263, Wavelet and Fractal Image Compression, Audio Compression.

UNIT - II

Multimedia Applications in Networks: Introduction, Application Level Framing, Audio/Video Conferencing-Session Directories, Audio/Video Conferencing, Adaptive Applications, Receiver Heterogeneity, Real Time Application with Resource Reservation ,Video Server, Applications requiring reliable multicast – White Board , Network Text Editor for Shared Text Editing, Multi Talk, Multicast file transfer, Multimedia Applications on the World Wide Web – Multicast Web Page Sharing, Audio/Video Streams in the www, Interactive Multiplayer Games.

UNIT - III

Web 2.0: What is web 2.0, Search, Content Networks, User Generated Content, Blogging, Social Networking, Social Media, Tagging, Social Marking, Rich Internet Applications, Web Services, Mashups, Location Based Services, XML, RSS, Atom, JSON, and VoIP, Web 2.0 Monetization and Business Models, Future of the Web.

UNIT - IV

Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with Adobe Flash and Flex: Adobe Flash- Introduction, Flash Movie Development, Learning Flash with Hands-on Examples, Publish your flash movie, Creating special effects with Flash, Creating a website splash screen, action script, web sources. Adobe Flex 2- Introduction, Flex Platform Overview, Creating a Simple User Interface, Accessing XML data from your application, Interacting with Server Side Applications, Customizing your User Interface, Creating Charts and Graphs, Connection Independent RIAs on the desktop -Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), Flex 3 Beta.

UNIT - V

Ajax- Enabled Rich Internet Application: Introduction, Traditional Web Applications Vs Ajax Applications, Rich Internet Application with Ajax, History of Ajax, Raw Ajax example using xml http request object, Using XML, Creating a full scale Ajax Enabled application, Dojo ToolKit.

TEXT BOOKS:

• 1. Multimedia Communications: Protocols and Applications, Franklin F Kuo, J.Joaquin Garcia, Wolf gang Effelsberg, Prentice Hall Publications.
• 2. Multimedia Communications: Applications, Networks, Protocols and Standards, Fred Halsall, Addison Wesley Publications.
• 3. AJAX, Rich Internet Applications, and Web Development for Programmers, Paul J Deitel and Harvey M Deitel, Deitel Developer Series, Pearson education.

REFERENCE BOOKS:

• 1. Professional Adobe Flex 2, Rich Tretola, Simon barber and Renaun Erickson, Wrox, Wiley India Edition.
• 2. Multimedia Information Networking, Nalin K Sharda, PHI Learning.
• 3. Multimedia Computing, Communications & Applications, Ralf Steinmetz and Klara Nahrstedt, Pearson Education.
• 4. Multimedia Communication Systems: techniques, standards and networks, K.R.Rao, Bojkovic and Milovanovic, PHI Learning.
• 5. Programming Flex 3, C. Kazoun and J. Lott, SPD.
• 6. Dojo, J.E. Harmon, Pearson Education.
• 7. Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source, Tapper & others, Pearson Education.
• 8. Principles of Multimedia, R.Parekh, TMH.
• 9. Mastering Dojo, R. Gill, C. Riecke and A. Russell, SPD.