Introduction

• Contents
• Home
• Multimedia
• How to include Multimedia Files
• You can use the EMBED tag
• Sound in an HTML document
• Using Sound In A Web Site
• MIDI files
• WAV Files
• Real audio
• Background Sound
• AVI Video format
• MPEG video format
• Quicktime Video format
• Real video format
• Video Codecs
• More About Codecs
• I.263 Codec

You have lots of choices when it comes to adding various media to your web site. You can add video in a variety of formats, sound and even 3D panoramas. Carefully chosen multimedia can make an incredible experience for your visitors. On the other hand, poorly done media can make them head for the back button.

One of the problems with most of these choices is the often immense size of the files. Any WAV file (a type of sound) longer than a few seconds is going to be huge, causing the reader to wait for the file to download. Video files get even larger, sometimes causing huge delays. And 3D (VRML) images can take a long time to download even over cable modem or DSL.

Additional content

• How to include Multimedia Files This is how you include a multimedia file in your document.
  • You can use the EMBED tag to add multimedia A simple way to add multimedia to your web site is to use the built-in HTML tag called EMBED
• Here's how to do sound in an HTML document Want to know how to add sound to your document? Here are some tips.
  • Using Sound In A Web Site Want to include sound on your web site? Here are some good ideas.
  • MIDI files MIDI files are a great way to add sound to your web pages.
  • WAV Files WAV files allow you to quickly create sound files and add them to your web site.
  • Real audio Real audio allows you to create very highly compressed sound files.
  • Background Sound You can put background sound in your website, but think twice about it as it can chase away visitors fast.
• Want to add video? Here's how.
  • AVI Video format
  • MPEG video format
  • Quicktime Video format The Quicktime video format is produced by Apple, works on Windows and Macintosh platforms and has a very clean and easy install.
  • Real video format The Real audio/video format is very popular and produces extremely compressed video (and sound). However, it does require a very commercial plugin.
  • Video Codecs A major issue with uncompressed audio and video files is they take up huge amounts of space. In fact, uncompressed multimedia files are generally much too large for most systems and for most download speeds.
    • More About Codecs Ever get a strange error when you try and play a video on your PC? Perhaps you need a codec ...
    • I.263 Codec 

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