Streaming Audio and Video and Creating splash pages

Assignment due on Friday: Come to class on Friday,
March 11, with a short description of the larger goal
and focus of your next website. (40 points)

2.. Converting CD audio files into "wave" or "mp3" files

2. Software for editing and creating sound files

3. . Sound recording using a microphone with Windows
Media Encoder

Testing sound file
Record sounds from a microphone or CD
using Windows Media Encoder
When you are recording sounds, make sure you
configure the "Device options" to the source
you want to record from.
You can record from "aux", "CD player",
"line-in", or "microphone".
You can make short recordings right off of
a CD in your computer by selecting the
"microphone" as your record source.

30 second "Let it Be" sound Bite

10 second "Let it Be" sound Bite

60 second "Ryan Cox" Piano

60 second "Ryan Cox" Piano

20 second "Jazz" sound Bite
When you are recording music here, you are actually recording music off of your microphone. So try to reduce feedback if you want the sound file to be clear on the web.
Record simple voice recordings at lower
resolution than complex musical recording.

3. Example of code to add background sound to a
webpage on opening that page:

This webpage with automatic background sound
on opening
<bgsound src="jazz.wma" loop="1" >
Put this code near the top of the Body tag <body>
See the code for this on this webpage (View source)
Be careful adding background music when the
page first opens. It can be annoying to hear
this music every time you open the page.

3. The Place of Audio files in websites.

4. Putting video files on a webpage

2. Streaming Video Players for the Web

5. Quick Time Movies on the Web

6. Using Dreamweaver to Insert Movies and Sound
files onto a webpage (See class handouts for
information about settings).

In Dreamweaver, select "Insert" and select
"Media" and then select "plug-in."
Remember to set the parameters for your
movie by clicking the "parameters" and
then selecting how you want your movie to
run.
In some cases, you will need to select the
name of the plug-in that the computer will
need to run the movie. For example,
the plug-in for Quick Time movies is
"Quick Time".
See the handout for a list of parameters to
set for running video on a webpage

Autostart=false
controller=true
width=180
height=140
Loop=false
pluginspage="http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/
bat_forever/Batman.mov"
Dark Blue Trailer
Link to Spider Man 2 Movie Trailer
Star Wars III Trailer : finding the ".mov" URL in order to link the trailer to your webapge.

--Actual Star Wars Trailer
Examples of Movie Trailers added to a webpage

1. Matrix Reloaded

2. Starsky and Hutch

3. Alien vs. Predator

4. Spider Man 2
Look at the source code of any of my trailer
pages and look at the source code for a movie
trailer on quicktime to understand what parts
of the quicktime movie trailer source code I
needed to copy to have the trailer load in
my own website.
The secret to this trick is to make sure you copy the URL for the quicktime movie, which should always end with ".mov" and then paste this URL into the code of your own webpage.
See wmovies.htm for example of Running Movies

6. Splash pages

Incubus.com
This is a complex site that uses mouseovers and
rollovers to play movies, sound, and animated gif files.
They used Flash to create and run this site.
This site is just too complicated to used javascript
and simple mouseover tricks. It used Flash to
make all these features work seamlessly together.