Multimedia in web design

EN6482 Week 8 Tutorial

Embed or link the media?

Click here to view or download video

A standard video for the internet? Microsoft: Windows media (.wmv) Apple: Quicktime movies (.mov) Realplayer: Real media (.rm, .ra, .rv) Mpeg: towards a standard Adobe: Flash video (.flv) - the emerging

standard, used by players like Youtube

So there are different video file types, so what? …so sharing video between computer

users who use different operating systems (Windows, Macintosh, Linux) and different media players can get tricky

For example, if your video is in Quicktime format you won’t be able to play it using Windows Media Player

Adoption by internet users

Today, Adobe can claim that the Flash Player is on 97.3% of all of the internet-enabled computers in use today. Microsoft’s Windows Media Player is on 83% of computers, QuickTime is on about 66%, and Real is hovering at 56%.

Green, 2006, retrieved from http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_rise_of_flash_video_part_1/

A basic process

So what do I need to know?

Linking to the mediaRequires a knowledge of html, or how to

create hyperlinks with a html editor Embedding the media

Using Youtube (basic)Using Dreamweaver (intermediate)

Flash video, Quicktime, Windows Media

Some useful resources

Video editing Video Spin - a free video editor for Windows that can output directly

to .flv http://videospin.com/

Flash video encoding (both shareware) For Windows: Riva

http://www.rivavx.com/index.php?encoder&L=3 For Mac: VisualHub

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/On embedding media using Dreamweaver:

The Rise of Flash Video Part 2 by Tom Green http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_rise_of_flash_video_part_2/