Most are from
Microsoft, and all are Windows-only.
The Windows Media home page is located at www.windowsmedia.com and includes sample
content.
Working with Video Clips
If you have short video clips you??™d like to put on the Web, you may not need the industrial strength??”or
the hassle and expense??”of a streaming media solution. Short video clips can be included in a Web page
just by linking to them or embedding them.
Depending on the viewer??™s software setup, video clips either download completely and then start playing
right away; or start playing as soon as enough of the video has arrived to make uninterrupted playback possible,
as shown in Figure 26-8.
Video clips come in a few common formats, described in Table 26-1. In addition to the video format itself,
what codec (encoder/decoder) a particular video clip uses is also important. A codec provides video compression,
and it is required for decompression at playback time. Many codecs are included with Windows
and with QuickTime, so codecs are not usually a problem unless you??™re authoring for platforms other than
Windows and Macintosh.
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FIGURE 26-8
QuickTime Player starts playing video clips when it has downloaded enough to ensure that playback is uninterrupted.
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