A total hands-on guide to quickly delivering live audio and video to a Web site, this book shows how to add streaming multimedia capacity to make the site more interactive than ever. It explains how streaming works, weighs the advantages and disadvantages of different streaming technologies, and helps Web developers choose and implement the right strategy and hardware/software for their sites.
Demo copies of RealPlayer and other popular multimedia plug-in programs that enable readers to practice editing and converting files.
* A gallery of best-in-class multimedia samples.
In the past few years, the whole concept of publishing has undergone an enormous transformation. Publishers are no longer limited to paper and ink. Electronic publications can now incorporate text,...
A guide to Web design and publishing with the Macromedia range of products including: Backstage Internet Studio, for advanced Web authoring; Authorware, for creating Web-based presentations; and Freehand Graphics Studio,...
This book combines a qualitative, conceptual understanding of hydrologic processes, an introduction to the quantitative representation of those processes and an understanding of approaches to hydrological measurements and the uncertainties...
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The only Apple-certified source for Final Cut Express 2 training. Apple's feature-rich DV editing software is designed for the complete beginner, the aspiring filmmaker, the educator and the experienced DV...
No other book on the market so comprehensively evaluates Apple's entire digital video (DV) software line'and the Mac's® role in the field of DV editing ? as this insightful new...
File Formats on the Internet: A Guide for PC Users
Make the Most of Today’s Leading Animation Package With release 4, max further establishes itself as today’s dominant modeling, animation, and rendering package. And with its fully revised and updated...
This brief introduction provides an overview of four popular multimedia applications PowerPoint, Macromedia Director, Macromedia Flash, and JavaScript. For each program, a chapter describes its capabilities, another outlines its operating...
It is widely recognized that there exists a large class of applications for which data modeling capabilities of relational systems are too limited. The current directions in database research and...