FAST TRACK GUIDE TO WEB PROGRAMMING

INTERESTING & INFORMATIVE SITES!

Chapter 12:

Multimedia

• RealNetworks
  (Information on G2, streaming audio and video authoring, SMIL and more)
  www.real.com
• Home of the Crescendo player
  (All about streaming MIDI and integrating G2 with Forte)
  www.liveupdate.com
• W3C Audio, Video and Synchronized Multimedia
  (All about multimedia on the web, including links to a great tutorial on SMIL)
  www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
• DSP Group Inc.’s True Speech Digital Speech Technology
  (Low bandwidth streaming speech delivery)
  www.truespeech.com
• Welcome to Club VDO
  (Videophone, Videoconferencing, Videomail and more streaming video)
  www.vdolive.com
• Vivo Software Inc. Home Page
  (VideoNow is another product that creates streaming media for PC and Mac)
  www.vivo.com
• Vosaic Corp. Home Page
  (Streaming media with an accent towards business and multicasting)
  www.vosaic.com
• Xing Technology Corporation
  (Streaming MPEG, oriented towards high bandwidth delivery technology)
  www.xingtech.com
• Microsoft Media Services
  (Streaming media for NT servers)
  www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/mediaserv

VRML

• Home of the VRML Consortium
  (Links to anything and everything about VRML)
  www.vrml.org
• San Diego State University VRML Repository
  (Another site with links to anything and everything about VRML)
  www.sdsc.edu/vrml_repository/repository.html
• Cosmo Software
  (Makers of the Cosmo VRML player VRML viewer, tons of data on VRML)
  www.cosmosoftware.com
• Verbal Imagery
  (This site belongs to Andrea Ames, a VRML guru I met at Web ’98)
  www.verbal-imagery.com
• 3D web entertainment
  (Streaming VRML may be on line by our publication time!)
  www.blitcom.net

Internet

• Next Generation Internet (NGI) Initiative
  (The NGI home page)
  www.ngi.gov
• Yahoo Next Generation Internet site
  (Yahoo’s tribute to cutting edge developments in Internet connectivity)
  smithsonian.yahoo.com/nextgeneration.html
• NGI Implementation Plan
  (National Coordination Office for Computing, Information and Communications)
  www.ccic.gov/implementation
• The Internet 2 Project
  (Find out all about I2 at The UCAID I2 home page)
  www.internet2.edu
• The Abilene Project
  (Find out all about Abilene at The UCAID Abilene home page)
  www.ucaid.edu/abilene
• MCI and NSF’s very high speed Backbone Network Service
  (Find out all about it from the MCI vBNS website)
  www.vbns.net

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ISBN 0471324264
400 pages
March, 1999

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