The Media Library, the extensive multimedia download area of the Star Trek Dimension, offers in several thematically arranged sections the most beautiful soundtracks and music files, one of the largest collections of sound effects and background noises in the internet, pictures archives on pivotal events and episodes as well as some special Star Trek tidbits. Therefore, the selection of pictures and sound files is optimized on uniqueness and high quality. These notes will tell you how to use the Media Library properly, but particularly, they contain some facts on the applied formats, their quality and the recommended viewers or players.

	How to use the Media Library
	Multimedia formats

 

How to use the Media Library

First, choose one of the sections on the Media Library main page (in the bar menu: "Overview"), which determines at once the type of the multimedia files. The three sound effect subsections, "Music" and "Specials" contain sound files in different formats, while you will find compressed JPEG files and archives in the "Screenshots", "Wallpapers" and "Scans" sections.

Within the sections, you can download single files very quickly via an interface similiar to the Windows 98 Explorer by clicking on one of the mini pictures or file titles. Click the left mouse button to open a file for immediate play/display. Click the right button and choose "Save destination as ..." in the context menu to save it permanently. The multimedia files are usually categorized according to their topic, type, affiliation etc.. Below each group, a status line is displayed which shows the overall size of an entire category.

 

Multimedia formats

The following tables give information on the file size, quality and recommended players for the media formats used in the Media Library.

Sound files

Format	Full name	Quality	Compression	File size	Channels	Bit rate
WAV	WAVE-PCM	maximum	none	very large	mono / stereo	353 / 706 kbps
RA	Real Audio 3.0	good	high	small	mono	40 - 80 kbps
RA G2	Real Audio G2	good	very high	very small	mono	32 kbps
MP3	MPEG Layer III	very good	high	medium	stereo	48 - 80 kbps

As the Windows standard format, WAVE files can be played with each sound application. An appropriate plugin should have been already installed with your internet browser. To play Real Audio files, you need at least the Real Player 3.0, for the Real Audio G2 files at least the Real Player G2 (6.0). MPEG files can be played with the Microsoft Windows Media Player.

 

Picture files

Format	Quality	Definition	Herkunft / Typ
JPEG	Level I	excellent	Photo scanned from magazines or books
JPEG	Level II	very good	Screenshot from television
JPEG	Level III	acceptable	Screenshot from VHS video

JPEG files can be displayed with your internet browser or every common image editor.

 

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