Adding Flash Video
Mainstream Streaming Media
Technologies??”and the companies that create them??”come and go on the Internet. Over the past few
years, quite a few different streaming media solutions have presented themselves and then faded away,
leaving us with the current Big Three: RealMedia, QuickTime, and Windows Media. These three technologies
together represent almost the entire streaming media market??”outside of the already covered Flash
video??”and the vast majority of Internet users have at least one of the corresponding players; many have
two or even all three.
RealMedia
RealNetworks released the first streaming media system??”RealAudio??”in 1995. Over the years, RealAudio
has evolved into RealMedia and now supports video, images, text, Flash movies, and standard audio types
such as AIFF and MP3. All these media types can be combined into a single presentation using
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). The three primary software components of
RealMedia are:
n RealPlayer: This is the newest client software for viewing RealMedia content. RealPlayer is free
and offers a full set of basic RealMedia viewing features. RealPlayer Plus is an enhanced player
available for around $20 or bundled with a subscription service called SuperPass that costs about
$15 per month.
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