Video on the Web
It may be hard for folks not involved in the technology of computers and the
Internet to understand why the high-tech Web doesn??™t always include something as
low tech as video. After all, television has been around forever, right? The difficulties
arise from the fundamental difference between the two media: Television and
radio signals are analog, and computers are pure digital. Sure, you can convert an
analog signal to a digital one??”but that??™s just the beginning of the solution.
The amount of information stored on a regular (analog) VHS cassette is truly
remarkable. Moving that amount of information about in the ones and zeros of
821
IN THIS CHAPTER
Creating video for the Web
Dreamweaver Technique: Adding
Flash Video
Including video clips in your
Web pages
Inserting QuickTime Player
movies
Using streaming video
Adding Video to
Your Web Page
the digital world is a formidable task. For example, storing the digital video stream from any digital video
camcorder uses up storage space at the rate of about 1GB every five minutes, and that video is already compressed.
Large file sizes also translate into enormous bandwidth problems when you are transmitting video
over the Web.
To resolve this issue of mega-sized files, industry professionals and manufacturers have developed various
strategies, or architectures, for the creation, storage, and playback of digital media.
Pages:
1393
1394
1395
1396
1397
1398
1399
1400
1401
1402
1403
1404
1405
1406
1407
1408
1409
1410
1411
1412
1413
1414
1415
1416
1417