Multimedia information

The element $MultimediaInformation$ contains information, which is absolutely necessary for decoding the multimedia object and which the output device have to be able to process.

Syntax: $MultimediaInformation = ( Fib\_Version, Db\_Version )$

Description of elements:

• $Fib\_Version$: An natural number for the version of the Fib multimedia description language, with which the multimedia object is coded. This number will be incrased by one with every new version of the Fib multimedia description languag.
• $Db\_Version$: An natural number for the version of the Fib database, which is required for decoding the multimedia object. This number will be incrased by one with every new version of the Fib database.

The version numbers can be mapped to a human-readable form (such as "Fib V1.2.3"). But in the $MultimediaInformation$ element only a integer is used, otherwise a particular form would be defined, which would be very hard to changed in the future. A human-readable form of the version numbers may be specified in the optional part (see section 9.14.3 on page ).