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Media Basic Media HOME Media Intro Sound Formats Video Formats Playing Sounds Playing Videos Windows Formats Object Element Object Intro Object QuickTime Object RealVideo References Tag Reference Media Player Ref MIME Reference

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Web Multimedia Tutorial

Multimedia Tutorial

In this Multimedia tutorial you will learn how to add multimedia (sound and video) to your web pages.

Introduction to Multimedia
This chapter describes what multimedia is and how multimedia can be handled by web browsers.

Sound Formats
This chapter describes the most common - or popular - sound formats.

Video Formats
This chapter describes the most common - or popular - video formats.

Browser Sounds
This chapter describes how to play sounds from a web page.

Browser Videos
This chapter describes how to play videos from a web page.

Windows Media Formats
This chapter describes the new Windows Media formats.

Object Intro
This chapter describes the object element.

Object QuickTime
This chapter describes how to play QuickTime movies with the object element.

Object RealMedia
This chapter describes how to play Real Audio and Real Video with the object element.

Tag Reference
The HTML multimedia tag reference.

Player Reference
The Windows Media Player reference.