Operation Manual

Images, Animation, and Multimedia 285
Adding sound and video
WebPlus lets you augment your web pages with sound and video files in a
variety of standard formats, including both non-streaming and streaming
media. In addition, WebPlus lets you include third-party videos already hosted
on www.youtube.com.
Sound
• There are actually two sound playback options—background sound,
where a sound loads and plays automatically when a specific page is
first displayed in the visitor's web browser, and linked sound,
triggered by a mouse click (for example, on an icon or hyperlinked
object). The supported audio formats are AIFF, AU, MIDI (.mid,
.midi), MP3, RealAudio (.ra, .ram), and WAV.
Video
• Linked video works like linked sound. Supported video formats are
AVI, QuickTime (.mov, .qt), MPEG (.mpg, .mpeg, .mpe, .mpv), and
RealVideo (.ram, .rv). (Non-streaming files must download in entirety
to a user's computer before they begin playing; streaming files require
a special player that buffers incoming data and can start playing before
the whole clip has arrived.)
• YouTube videos which are already published on the Internet can be
included on your web page. Videos themselves are not embedded in
your site; instead, just the unique YouTube video ID is embedded in
your page as you place the YouTube video on your page—a link is
created from your web page back to www.youtube.com. This lets you
add media content to your pages while avoiding uploading large
videos as part of your site.