Multimedia on the Web

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Multimedia on the Web
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What is MM?
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Other MM Sources

• CD - ROM (Seeds of Peace)
• Audio CD (Christina Britney)
• Cars (The Door is Ajar)
• Appliances (
• Toys (Music Blocks)
• Games (Nintendo, Playstation)
• Presentations (Good old power point)
• Art (MOCA)
• Application Software (Brenda)
• Bird Clock/Cell Phone/

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Advantages/Disadvantages of MM?

• Interesting
• Fun
• Improve user interface with audio feedbackmake
  the interface more responsive

• Slow
• Costly
• Frivolous
• Value gained is too small
• Plug-Ins

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Why have MM on a Web Site?

• Make the site more exiting. Give the user an
  experience not a book.
• Instructional/demonstration purposes.
• Entertainment purposes.
• When sound or a picture communicates an idea
  better.

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Sound Formats
Another Description
P. 422 of your text
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Plug Ins/Players

• RM Player
• Windows Player
• Sony
• Flash
• Real Producer lets you compress sound and video,
  and export it as rm to use on the Web.

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Streaming
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Sound Trades

• Quality vs. File Size (Compression!!!!!!)
• Plug-In vs. Works
• User Control vs. Use hostage

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Sound that Plays Onload

• Netscape
• use an embed tag
• autostart"true"
• IE
• bgsound tag in the header
• Both?
• library

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Sound that the User Controls

• Inline Sound
• To show player
• On a Link
• Homer

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Applications

• House Tour

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Your Sound Online

• Recorder..
• Save as Wav

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Video Examples

• Seeds of Peace
• Computer Ethics

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Video Formats Players

• Quicktime (mov)
• Real Media (rm)
• .avi

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Video

• or tags
• autostarttrue looptrue width160
  height120
• width120 height160
• As linkhreffile

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Flash

• use embed also flash player

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Other topics

• Streaming
• Compression