Chapter18.Adding Video and Audio

Chapter 18. Adding Video and Audio

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Video on the Web

• Streaming versus Progressive Video

• Media Players

• Working with Video Clips

• Inserting Video in your Web Page

• Audio on the Web

• Linking to Audio Files

• Working with Streaming Audio

It's funny that we live in a world where cinemas and video rental stores are within miles of our homes. We log onto online video rental stores and even subscribe to video-on-demand services for our televisions. Yet with all of this at our fingertips, we're always amazed when we see a small, jerky, and grainy video on the web. Why is that? Because of the promise of high-quality digital video, available to us when we want it and whenever we want it. In the past few years, companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Real, Discreet, Macromedia, and Sorenson have made strides in delivering on that promise. With streaming technologies, better codecs (compression algorithms), and generally higher bandwidth in our homes, the promise of delivering small-sized, high-quality web video is slowly coming to fruition.

Dreamweaver offers unprecedented support for incorporating video and audio files into your web pages. Whether you're working with Windows Media, Real Media, QuickTime, Flash Video, MP3, or MIDI files, Dreamweaver will get you off and running quickly and effortlessly.

As you've done with the rest of the chapters in this book, you can work with the examples in this chapter by downloading the files from www.dreamweaverunleashed.com. You'll want to save the files for Chapter 18 in an easy-to-find location. I'll place mine in C:\Dorknozzle\Chapter18.