Chapter Twenty-Three: How Web Browsers Do Multimedia

Table
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Contents:

Course Syllabus
Course Assignments and Due Dates
Tips and Tricks
Part One: Understanding The Internet

Chapter One: Definitions
Chapter Two: How the Internet is Changing the World

Part Two: Getting On The Internet

Chapter Three: Getting Connected
Chapter Four: Surfing the Net

Part Three: Communicating Over The Internet

Chapter Five: Internet Etiquette (Netiquette)
Chapter Six: Electronic Mail
Chapter Seven: Listserv
Chapter Eight: Usenet Newsgroups
Chapter Nine: Communicating in Real Time
Chapter Ten: Telnet

Part Four: Finding Things On The Internet

Chapter Eleven: Searching for Information
Chapter Twelve: Commonly Found Internet File Types
Chapter Thirteen: Downloading From the Internet
Chapter Fourteen: Bibliographic Style for Citing Internet Resources

Part Five: Creating Web Pages

Chapter Fifteen: Web Page Creation Strategies
Chapter Sixteen: Web Page Design
Chapter Seventeen: How HTML Works
Chapter Eighteen: Creating Your Web Page Resume
Chapter Nineteen: Putting Images on Web Pages
Chapter Twenty: Using Tables for Advanced Web Page Layout
Chapter Twenty-one: Making a Local Web and a Home Page
Chapter Twenty-two: Publishing Files on the World Wide Web

Part Six: Using Multimedia On The Internet

Chapter Twenty-three: How Web Browsers Do Multimedia
Chapter Twenty-four: Waveform Audio Recording

Part Seven: Planning For The Future Of The Internet

Chapter Twenty-five: Societal Issues
Chapter Twenty-six: Emerging Technology
Chapter Twenty-seven: How to Keep Up

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After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Define what it means to publish a file on the World Wide Web.

Understand how Web browsers use helper apps, plug-ins, and add-ins to do multimedia.

Explain the difference between a helper app, plug-in, and add-in.

Configure your Web browser to use helper apps.

Download and install multimedia plug-ins and add-ins.

Use multimedia Web pages containing sound and video.

Find hot multimedia Web sites.

Adding Sound and Movie Files to Your Web Site
To hear audio clips on your computer, you will need a sound card, speakers/headphones, and audio software. To view videos on your computer, you will need enough memory (bare bones minimum of 8 mb RAM), a Macintosh or Windows-based operating system, and video viewing software. You will also need to have the appropriate browser plugins installed and configured.
When the web browser encounters a sound, image or video file, it passes this data to other programs, called helper applications, to run or display the file. Most of these helper applications are shareware or freeware available from various archive sites found on the Internet. Once they have been downloaded and installed on your computer, you will need to configure them within your browser.

Common Audio File Types

.AU .AU is the file format common to most Sun UNIX workstations. This will work on all types of computers.

.WAV Microsoft Windows audio format, may not work on all computers. Requires at least Netscape 3.0 to work.

.AIFF Macintosh audio file format, supported by Netscape 3.0 and above.

.RAM
.RM Real Audio audio and video format which supports streaming and live webcasts.

Common Video File Types
.MPEG
.MPG Video format similar to JPEG/JPG image format. Hardware intensive--needs 16 mb RAM.

.AVI Microsoft video for Windows file format.

.QT Quicktime video format for Macintosh.

.MOV Quicktime video format for Windows.

Online Resources:

Sounds of the Cornell Chimes
View Quicktime Movie of Fred Hofstetter
Netscape Helper Applications
Netscape Browser Plug-ins
DOWNLOAD.COM -- ActiveX
Macromedia Shockwave
Welcome to LiveUpdate - home of the Crescendo player
Configuring your Netscape Navigator
CNET News.com - Microsoft plugs IE security hole
Internet Literacy - Chapter 23: Exercises

Assignment to turn in for credit:
Create a new web page which includes a movie file. Publish this page to your web site and email your URL to the instructor.
Submit your URL

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