Chapter 18. Adding Video and Audio

IN THIS CHAPTER

Video on the Web

Streaming versus Progressive Video

Media Players

Working with Video Clips

• Inserting Video in your Web Page

Audio on the Web

Linking to Audio Files

• Working with Streaming Audio

It's funny that we live in a world where cinemas and video rental stores are within miles of our homes. We log onto online video rental stores and even subscribe to video-on-demand services for our televisions. Yet with all of this at our fingertips, we're always amazed when we see a small, jerky, and grainy video on the web. Why is that? Because of the promise of high-quality digital video, available to us when we want it and whenever we want it. In the past few years, companies such as ...

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