Using audio/video on your web site?
September 3rd, 2008
What type of information is important to understand before using audio/video on your web site?
It is important to know that all the technologies that have successfully managed video and audio over the internet use packet streaming. All video-streaming systems perform buffering. And, the four companies dictating what can be done with video are, Microsoft, Apple, Macromedia (purchased by Adobe) and RealNetworks.
One web site that contains audio/video:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/ “Breaking News, Weather, Business, Health, Entertainment, Sports, Politics, Travel, Science, Technology, Local, US & World News – msnbc.com”
This is a 24-hour news channel featuring stories and video from NBC News, and The New York Times, Newsweek and the Washington Post. When watching video http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/26523861#26523861 you are able to select your next video even as you are watching another video. The videos will also continuously play through the video catalogue.
The benefit of audio/video and its use for information for the clients and the users? The original concept of this website and company was to have video on the web related to the stories on cable t.v. This continues to be the concept and with new technologies (silverlight) the clarity and capabilities are increasing. This company succeeds due to the audio/video content and the clients and users expect quality a/v content.
Reference:>
http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Computer_Science/2005/digital_audio_formats.asp
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=388273&seqNum=2
http://www.real.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Msnbc
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