ITCS 312: Multimedia Data Delivery: (3-0-3) This course looks at some of the underlying technologies in Distributed Multimedia Systems in order to enable a better understanding of the capabilities of multimedia devices and the limits of current and emerging multimedia systems in terms of delivering data. Students consider a wide range of multimedia input, output and storage devices available. The capabilities of these devices are then evaluated in light of available audio, video and data coding technologies and of human perception and perceived media quality. Coding and compression systems, ranging from simple run-length techniques to systems such as the MPEG standards, and techniques such as wavelet coding and issues of handling multimedia within computer based systems, from basic scheduling issues to media synchronization. Problems of real-time storage an attention. Distributed multimedia systems are then examined with particular emphasis on the problems of providing network support for multimedia applications and services. (Prerequisite 222)