Minimizing Multimedia

by Jason Wolf

In this chapter, you'll learn how to optimize both the size and the speed of your multimedia content to help deliver your message to your target audience. Multimedia combines audio, video, text, graphics, and animation into an interactive experience. According to recent studies, multimedia is playing a larger role in overall Internet traffic.

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Most streaming-media files are low in bit-rate (less than 56Kbps), small in size (less than 1MB), and short in duration (under 10 minutes). However, a small fraction (3 percent) of streaming media is responsible for nearly half of this traffic. [1] P2P traffic is also on the rise. At a study at the University of Washington in May 2002, peer-to-peer traffic ( mainly video) consumed three times the bandwidth of WWW traffic. [2]

[1] Maureen Chesire, Alec Wolman, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Henry M. Levy, "Measurement and Analysis of a Streaming-Media Workload," in Proceedings of the Third USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, 2001).
[2] Stefan Saroiu et al., "An Analysis of Internet Content Delivery Systems," in Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI) (Berkeley, CA: USENIX Association, December 2002).

Multimedia applications allow you to create engaging interactive experiences. Remember, the tricky part is not creating your content but delivering your content efficiently .

 



Speed Up Your Site[c] Web Site Optimization
Speed Up Your Site[c] Web Site Optimization
ISBN: 596515081
EAN: N/A
Year: 2005
Pages: 135

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