Java™ Media APIs: Cross-Platform Imaging, Media, and Visualization
by Alejandro Terrazas, John Ostuni, Michael Barlow
Time-Based Media
The term media possesses a number of meanings and connotations to most people: from modern print and broadcast press to the inclusion of terms such as multimedia.
Time-based media, from the perspective of the JMF API and Java, is broadly defined as any data that varies in a meaningful manner with respect to time.
Implicitly, two further properties are understood to be possessed by time-based media:
The data is intended for presentation (perhaps not immediately but at some, possibly future, stage) to a human being. With current technologies, that is understood to be through vision or hearing.
The data is in a digital format. Typically this involves capturing (digitizing) analogue (real-world) data such as from a microphone. Alternatively, ...