Web Developer.com? Guide to Streaming Multimedia

Web Developer.com? Guide to Streaming Multimedia
ISBN-10
0471248223
ISBN-13
9780471248224
Category
Computers / Interactive & Multimedia
Pages
430
Language
English
Published
1998-04-23
Publisher
Wiley
Author
José Alvear

Description

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.

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