Audio and Video Tips

Audio

Audio for the Web Charlie Morris, from Web Developer's Virtual Library, explains using audio on the Web. Topics include MIDI for the masses, streaming audio, and how to include sound on a Web page.

Mastering Audio for the Internet From Streaming Media World, John Townley walks you through the do's and don'ts of audio mastering for the Web.

MP3: The Nuts and Bolts Nate Manchester will help catch you up to speed with the MP3 revolution going on these days. Learn about players and rippers and get hip again.

Project Cool's Audio Zone Project Cool's Audio Zone takes you from a basic introduction to audio, through detailed how-to tutorials and advanced techniques. It also includes Sound Clips You Can Use -- royalty-free sounds in a variety of formats that you can download and use immediately in your own site.

Streaming Media 101 Learn everything you need to know to get your Web site fully equipped with audio (and video) that streams. From CNET's Web Building section.

Beatnik Streaming audio plugin and compostion tools. Creates and delivers high quality interactive music and sound on Web pages with compressed, watermarked audio. Web authors have unparallelled control, from simple tracks to complex interactive musical experiences.

Crescendo Software wavetable synthesizer, allowing streaming MIDI to be synchronized with RealAudio, video, text and animation.

Koan Home page for the Koan Music System. Provides both composition tools and players/mixers for multiple media types. Free plug-ins available for IE and NN.

Liquid Audio Another high-compression, high-quality streaming audio format. Free player and plugins available.

RealAudio One of the defacto standards of Internet audio, RealAudio allows real-time streaming of both audio & video over the Web. Both free and commercial versions of players and encoders are available.

Shockwave Not just for audio, the Shockwave plugin from Macromedia allows users to receive a variety of streaming media information.

ShoutCast Streaming MP3 audio - players, servers, news and more.

TrueSpeech Hi-quality, lo-bandwidth web audio player/encoder. Available for Mac and Windows.

'Wimpy' Streaming Media Tools Adding multimedia to a Web site can make it more attractive and appealing to your visitors but the process can be difficult, even if you know what you're doing. Fortunately, there are other options, such as Wimpy, which is easy to install and use.

XingTech Xing creates MP3 tools for Mac and PC platforms - Codecs, players, encoders, servers and more.

Harmony Central Midi Forum A valuable collection of MIDI resources and tutorials. Contains essential material for both beginners and advanced users. Provides a forum and documentation. Harmony Central also features a multi-platform software collection.

Internet Underground Music Archive Thousands of lesser-known bands and artists from all categories of music make their music available here for listening and purchase.

Listen.com Huge guide to online music, they only point to files that we believe are available with the permission of the legal copyright holder.

MP3.com Extensive collection of MP3 news, guides, articles, chat, and of course, music. Multi-platform software and plug in archives.

Napster One of the most famous MP3 pages around, you can search through millions of MP3's.

Scour Scour is your entertainment portal. You can find music, films, and videos in a wide variety of file formats, plus online radio stations and audio and video tools.

Shareware Music Machine Massive site of sound and music software for all major computer platforms. Includes news and reviews, updated daily.

Sonic Spot Large PC-focused audio software site, with reviews, links and more.

Adobe Software Makers of some of the most popular video editing software around, including Premiere, LiveMotion and more.

RealVideo Progressive networks, makers of RealAudio now streams video with their new RealVideo product. Uses the RealVideo server but can work without a server (HTTP). Combines the mathematically-based fractal video compression (Clear Video) licensed from Iterated Systems with RealAudio's renowned audio quality.

QuickTime Contains the latest QuickTime information and software from Apple, Includes news and updates, developer's information, resources, samples and an open forum. The QuickTime plug-in lets you experience QuickTime animation, music, MIDI, audio, video, and VR panoramas and objects directly in a Web page.

Shockwave & Flash Not exactly video (but close enough), Macromedia's interactive multimedia formats are some of the most popular on the Internet. Webmasters can make interactive games, and presentations, even entire applications with these powerful products. Source code and SDKs for the Flash Player and Flash File Format are now availabe for free download to developers.

SiteCam A full-featured webcam program for putting live images and time-lapse movies on the internet. MacOS platforms only.

Terran Interactive Makers of Movie Cleaner Pro, designed to dynamically compress, clean up and optimize your movies dramatically for the Web. Supports multiple media formats, runs on Windows and Mac platforms.

WindowsMedia Microsoft's WindowsMedia Player and information about the Windows Media File Format. Streaming Audio and Video, Media News, downloads and more.

'Wimpy' Streaming Media Tools Adding multimedia to a Web site can make it more attractive and appealing to your visitors but the process can be difficult, even if you know what you're doing. Fortunately, there are other options, such as Wimpy, which is easy to install and use. By Lee Underwood. February 6, 2006

CU-SeeMe Desktop videoconferencing software for real time person-to-person or group conferencing. Runs on both Windows and Macintosh platforms, offering full-color video, audio, chat window, and white board communications. By White Pine Software.

DMOZ.org - Computer/Digital Video Computer and Digital Video links from the Open Directory project.

MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group A working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of international standards for compression, decompression, processing, and coded representation of moving pictures, audio and their combination.

MPEG Pointers and Resources A complete, comprehensive and up-to-date index of MPEG resources on the Web.

MPEG FAQ 4.1 Not recently updated, but still filled with useful information for hardcore developers.

QuickTime/MPEG FAQs Quicktime and MPEG resources and downloadable FAQs.

Streaming Media World Resources, links, reviews, tutorials, hardware info and more about streaming video, from another of the internet.com family of sites.

The Web Cam Cookbook Sam's Web Cam Cookbook is a tutorial and reference for Web cam beginners or sophisticates. Covers a wide range of topics from the practical (software and hardware reviews, tutorials, videoconferencing) to the esoteric (Webcasting on a bike).