At present, network image communication is still restricted by channel coding, image and multimedia transmission and other key technologies. Therefore, the transmission process needs to convert the image signal into a digital signal, and then use the relevant band compression technology to reduce these signals to narrow the occupied frequency band, that is, to reduce the amount of information to be transmitted in synchronous transmission. Wavelet transform is a powerful tool for image compression because of its low entropy, multi-resolution, decorrelation and flexible base selection. In this paper, a method of multimedia image compression based on biorthogonal wavelet packet is proposed, which includes the establishment of linear phase biorthogonal wavelet basis, the selection of 3 or 4 levels of wavelet decomposition and reconstruction stage, and the combination of improved band division and preservation strategy. Finally, a compression test is performed based on the selected wavelet basis function and the optimal decomposition and reconstruction layers of the standard test image, which enables to obtain a more ideal compression ratio. INDEX TERMS Multimedia image compression, biorthogonal wavelet, multimedia transmission, discrete cosine transform.