Introduction

• Specification and design of multimedia applications

  • New challenge to authoring systems
    • due to temporal and spatial relations
  • Common design of hierarchical composition of objects
  • This leads to Object-Oriented tools

• Tools we will be looking at today:

  • DAMSEL-Dynamic Multimedia Specification Language
  • MET++-Multimedia Application Framework
  • MME-Object-Oriented Multimedia Toolkit
  • PREMO-Presentation Environment for Multimedia Standard