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Originally Posted by pittendrigh
How well the multimedia works in or on your device relates to the quality of the programmer(s) who made it. This is a technology in development.
The technology is in a state of flux.
Multimedia is too big to store on a phone. There is no technical reason phones couldn't stream video (show it but don't save it). But they don't yet
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This is mostly nonsense. In most situations still images are better than video for instructional material. You can go at your own speed and backwards and forwards easily.
I had a multimedia company in the later 1990s. The technology was almost mature then. Now the difference is that it all works on most smart phones.
The phones CAN store it OR stream it.
The technology isn't in a state of flux.
An app is the best solution for a phone or tablet. Not trying to shoe-horn stuff into ebooks which won't work on real ebook readers.
There are even tool kits for over twenty years to build multimedia applications and distribute them. Android and iOS have the modern equivalents. At the top end the Unreal engine can be used for Multimedia, not just games. Games need audio, video, text, a database and interaction. A decent gaming engine is one route to build a phone/tablet app. However it's not that hard to do text, audio and video with a simple book like interface from scratch in iOS or Android. The libraries are out there. It's a solved problem with mature software.
Even my six or seven year old Sony-Ericsson 4.25" approx smartphone has enough storage via 32 G SD card and a good enough screen for ebooks (I test ebooks on it) or multimedia. It can manage streaming video from 3G or WiFi either full screen or in a window. Using Mpeg4 the storage isn't a problem either.
There used to be Multimedia books called Encyclopedias. Wikipedia killed them off. They ran with MUCH less RAM, screen and CPU than a smartphone has even a few years ago. They often came on ONE 0.65G Byte CD. You'd fit over 30 of them and other stuff on an old iPhone 4s!