Before you begin, decide which format
you will use for your content. There are two options available at TTU. You
need to choose the one that will work for you.
| This system: |
Streams media
in these formats: |
| Windows Media
Services |
MS Media |
| Apple’s Darwin
Streaming Server |
Quicktime |
For an account, email Lauren Neal
(lneal@tntech.edu) with your name, department,
phone, and specify which of the streaming server products listed above that
you want to use.
Your content, audio, multimedia,
etc., will reside on the streaming server in your account. You will provide
links to this content from your current web site(s), such as from your web pages
on TTUweb, Iweb, or iLearn.
Although you can place your internet
media content on your web site, it will not be streamed unless it is on one
of the servers listed above.
Linking your content to your
web page
Windows Media Example
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Welcome
to Windows Media Services
Play list of three clips.
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<a
href="Welcome.asx">Welcome
to Windows Media Services</a>
Welcome.asx
refers to a Windows Media Metafile on your web site, see below. The code in the file
then calls the Windows Media player and the 3 clips form a play list which
opens in the Windows Media player in both IE 5.5 and Netscape 4.78
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| The
contents of the plain text file Welcome.asx is shown which resides on your web site.
The three Windows media files (.asf - Advanced Streaming Format) are
welcome1.asf, welcome2.asf, and welcome3.asf
<ASX Version = "3.0"
>
<ABSTRACT>Learn about some of the new Windows Media features.</ABSTRACT>
<Title>Welcome to Windows Media Services</Title>
<AUTHOR>Windows Media Team</AUTHOR>
<COPYRIGHT>1999, Microsoft Corporation</COPYRIGHT>
<moreinfo href="http://www.microsoft.com/" />
<Entry>
<Title>Introduction</Title>
<AUTHOR>Windows Media Team</AUTHOR>
<Copyright>1999, Microsoft Corporation</Copyright>
<Ref href = "mms://stream.tntech.edu/welcome1.asf" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<Title>Windows Media Services Features</Title>
<AUTHOR>Windows Media Team</AUTHOR>
<Copyright>1999, Microsoft Corporation</Copyright>
<Ref href = "mms://stream.tntech.edu/welcome2.asf" />
</Entry>
<Entry>
<Title>Closing</Title>
<AUTHOR>Windows Media Team</AUTHOR>
<Copyright>1999, Microsoft Corporation</Copyright>
<Ref href = "mms://stream.tntech.edu/welcome3.asf" />
</Entry>
</ASX>
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QuickTime Example
1
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Remember
that your QuickTime movie must be "hinted" in order
for it to be played on the streaming server. |
| Apple
Sample Surfing Movie |
<a
href="dssmovie300.mov">Apple
Sample Surfing Movie</a>
Opens in the browser window
in both IE and Netscape. Use browser Back button to get back.
This format assumes user has browser plug-in.
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| The
contents of the plain text file dssmovie300.mov which resides on your web
site are:
rtsptext rtsp://streamqt.tntech.edu/sample_300kbit.mov
The href above refers
to this file with the extension .mov which is nevertheless a plain text
file. This command causes the actual movie, named
sample_300kbit.mov,
to play in the browser window.
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QuickTime Example
2
| Example with
link running a short movie clip and a call to download plug-in if needed.
This calls the QuickTime player which runs outside the browser window. |
| Plain text file
named radioref2.mov has the following line of code:
rtsptext rtsp://streamqt.tntech.edu/gmarconi/20thcent/historyqt.mov
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| Sample code for
G. Marconi's web page on the Iweb, running a clip called shortclip.mov constantly
in the browser as a link to the reference file (see code above) which causes
the movie historyqt.mov to play in the QuickTime player outside of the browser.
Recent versions of Internet Explorer read the object and parameter
code. Netscape reads the embed tag code.
<p>Click the movie clip
below to launch the History of Radio movie
in the QuickTime Player</p>
<object CLASSID="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B"
CODEBASE="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab"
width="165" height="30">
<param name="src" value="shortclip.mov">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
<param name="controller" value="false">
<param name="loop" value="palindrome">
<param name="href" value="http://iweb.tntech.edu/gmarconi/radioref2.mov">
<param name="target" value="QuickTimePlayer">
<embed src=".shortclip.mov" target="QuickTimePlayer"
width="165" height="30"
type="video/quicktime" href="http://iweb.tntech.edu/gmarconi/radioref2.mov"
pluginspage="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/"
controller="false" autoplay="true" loop="palindrome"></embed>
</object>
</body>
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The Institute for
Technological Scholarship:
http://www.tntech.edu/institute/
Email:
institute@tntech.edu
Windows
Media: http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/
QuickTime
Tutorials:
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/tutorials.html
Mimio
boardCast
http://www.mimio.com/products/boardcast/index.php
Examples of
electronic media at Musarium:
http://www.musarium.com/
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by: Academic Computing Support
Last updated:
June 04, 2008
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