Multimedia

Multimedia You have lots of multimedia choices available, including video, sound, powerpoint and graphics.

• 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.
  • Crescendo Crescendo is a plug in which will allow you to have sound on your web site.
  • Sound Utilities Here are some great utilities to help you with your sound.
    • Winamp Winamp is one of the great sound players!
    • Windows Media Player CD Copying Windows media player can copy CDs, and can copy protect that which it copies.
• Here's an overview of video 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 
• Here's how to use VRML How to add VRML to your web site