Operating systems - Multimedia Systems

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OPERATING SYSTEM - MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM

Table of Contents

Introduction to Operating System 3

Multimedia : A Working Definition 3

Characteristics of Multimedia Data and System 4

Issues and Concepts Related to Multimedia System 6

Compression 6

CPU Scheduling 7

Disk Scheduling 8

Conclusion 10

Works Cited 11

1 . Introduction to Operating System

An operating system (OS ) is simply a program that manages the hardware components of a computer (Silberschatz , Gagne and Galvin . It acts as a middle

man between the user and the hardware . Different operating system is developed for different types of system , from mainframes up to personal computers and embedded systems . Some of the most popular current operating systems in the market are Microsoft 's Windows , Linux and Mac OS

An operating system exhibits a great deal of complexity , thus , must be designed and constructed part-by-part . From the I /O operations up to the user interface designs , an operating system is engineered with extreme fragility since a loophole in the design cannot be immediately fixed because of its intricacy

As of now , operating systems offer a vast range of services to the end users . Old OS before cannot support applications using mouse operations like a simple click and drag-and-drop . Present operating systems can now even support a wide selection of user-computer interaction such as far as a speech recognition facility . However , one of the most remarkable features of an operating system is its support on multimedia systems

2 . Multimedia : A Working Definition

Aside from...