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3.1) Introduction
3.2) Multimedia features we support
3.2.1) RealAudio
3.2.2) Truespeech Digital Audio
3.2.3) Macromedia`s Shockwave
3.2.4) VREAM
3.2.5) Fractal Viewer
3.2.6) Toolvox
3.2.7) VRML
3.2.8) Live 3D
3.2.9) MIDI
3.2.10) VIVOACTIVE
3.2.11) SIZZLER
3.2.12) RGB HexTriplet Color chart
3.2.13) Internet Phone
3.2.14) VDOLive
3.1) Introduction
Your pages work great, you have implemented some new HTML codes, such as
tables, frames or backgrounds. But know, as time goes by, you want to provide
some more fancy things to your customers or you want to make things easier for
you.
There are several fancy things you could implement and some useful programs
you could use. Some examples may be RealAudio that lets your visitors listen in
real time to music or your speech, a clickable map that is a graphical image where
visitors can click on some points, which are linked to other pages or a mail
program that sends you the input of a visitor who filled out a form at your site.
You have two options: Create your own scripts or download scripts from any site
and install them onto our server or ask us to create them for you. Our prices are
very attractive and reasonable and many clients found out that they could save
time and hassle by asking us to create scripts for them.
Our team of programmers, graphic designers, HTML authors and translators will
do every effort to make you satisfied. If you like to see some examples of our
work, you might have a look at some scripts we created for our customers. Check
also out our Webservice - Site
One example is a password script we created for Paradigm Communications.
When you purchase a novel there, you will be provided a password. With this
password you can go to the "checkout page" and insert the password, which will
provide a link to the novel you requested. Then you can download the novel. All
this is fully automatical !
Another script might be a simple guestbook.
You may start with small programs, such as "wusage" to count your accesses or
"cgiemail" to send you the content of a form that your customers filled in. Even a
guestbook might be something fancy that enhances your site.
Ask us for our VERY low prices to set up these scripts for you! Send mail to
support@mercator.net for rates.
3.2) Other tings to implement are multimedia and graphical
options that are supported by our server.
3.2.1) RealAudio
is a real time audio transmission/player system. A digital audio stream is
transmitted from the server over the internet to the destination and played
immediately, rather than being stored to disk first and then played.
Each audio clip requires two files: a metafile with extension .ram, and the digital
audio clip itself, with extension .ra. The .ram file holds one or more lines of
ASCII text, each of which references the .ra file to be played when the .ram file is
accessed by the browser.
Entries in .ram files have the form:
pnm://your-domain.com/rafiles/your-domain/name-of-clip.ra
Place your .ram and .ra files in the realaudio subdirectory under your web
directory. Contact support@mercator.net if you have not been supplied with the
realaudio subdirectory.
.ram files must be uploaded in ASCII mode while .ra files must be uploaded in
BINARY mode.
You may then access these files at realaudio/file.ram under your www directory.
3.2.2) TRUESPEECH DIGITAL AUDIO
The TrueSpeech Digital Audio Player for the Internet offers the highest-quality,
low-bandwidth (8.5 kbps) internet audio available today, with real-time, streaming
audio playback over the Internet, and the ability to store and listen to your favorite
sites directly from the Player without needing to first launch your browser
3.2.3) MACROMEDIA'S SHOCKWAVE
Macromedia's Shockwave delivers a rich, interactive multimedia experience.
SHOCKWAVE FOR FREEHAND BY MACROMEDIA
The Shockwave plug-in lets users interact with FreeHand art and graphics right in
a Netscape Navigator window. Use it to view compact vector graphics (panning
and zooming up to 25,600 percent); irregularly shaped hot objects that jump to
other Web pages; and high-resolution, 24-bit color images on a Web page
SHOCKWAVE FOR AUTHORWARE BY MACROMEDIA
Shockwave lets users interact with Authorware courses and pieces from within or
on top of a Netscape Navigator window. Animation, clickable buttons, links to
other Web pages, hybrid layout and delivery, and streaming PICS movies and
sound can be integrated.
SHOCKWAVE FOR DIRECTOR BY MACROMEDIA
Shockwave lets users interact with Director presentations right in a Netscape
Navigator window. Animation, clickable buttons, links to URLs, digital video
movies, sound, and more can be integrated within a presentation.
3.2.4) VREAM - Virtual Reality Authority Software
Vream is a leading provider of virtual reality software and services. Products
include WIRL, a state-of-the-art VRML web browser, and VRCreator, a drag and
drop creation tool for VRML 2.0, the new Internet standard for virtual reality on
the Web.
The company's core virtual reality technology serves as the basis for all of its
commercial software products,including VRCreator, WIRL, and any custom
applications built for Vream's clients by its services group.
Today, in over 50 countries around the world, Vream's users are utilizing
VREAM's market-leading virtual reality technology to develop innovative
VR-based applications in a wide array of markets and industries,including
entertainment, telecom, finance, medicine, architecture, pharmaceuticals, design
engineering,education, and network visualization among others.
With the WIRL VIRTUAL REALITY BROWSER BY VREAM plug-in you
can play virtual slot machines, fly helicopters, see cybergymnasts flip, throw
virtual TVs, watch business logos spin, visit exotic islands in cyberspace, and
more. WIRL fully supports VRML and adds support for object behaviors, logical
cause-and-effect relationships, multimedia capabilities, world authoring, and links
to Windows applications.
3.2.5) FRACTAL VIEWER BY ITERATED SYSTEMS
Fractal Viewer enables the inline use of fractal images on the Web. Iterated's
Fractal Image Format provides a means of representing digitized photographs and
other bitmap images in a highly compressed and resolution-independent form.
This plug-in offers Web authors many options for presenting true-color images.
For example, a single fractal file on a Web server can be viewed as a full-screen
picture or as a thumbnail representation. Image maps are supported in both NCSA
and CERN formats. Users can zoom, stretch,flip, and rotate images, and set
preferences that specify how much detail of an image should be received by
default.
3.2.6) TOOLVOX BY VOXWARE
Toolvox by Voxware adds high-quality speech audio to your Web pages. With
ToolVox, it's as easy as embedding a graphic: Your existing HTTP server can
stream audio. ToolVox delivers 53:1 compression ratios -more than three times
smaller than first-generation real-time Internet voice products.
3.2.7) VRML (virtual reality modeling language)
Web pages are just that: pages -- two-dimensional text and graphics. VRML is
about changing all that. To quote the VRML Repository, "VRML is a standard
language for describing interactive three-dimensional scenes delivered across the
internet." They use "describing" in the technical sense: if you point a VRML
browser (or a Web browser with a VRML plug-in or helper) at a file containing
VRML "descriptions" of a scene, it'll render that scene for you in 3D and let you
move around in it and examine it from all sides and angles. More in a minute
about where you can get one of those browsers so you can try this for yourself.
VRML allows for the creation of virtual worlds with limited interactive behavior.
These worlds can contain objects which have hyperlinks to other worlds, HTML
documents or other valid MIME types. When the user selects an object with a
hyperlink, the appropriate MIME viewer is launched. When the user selects a link
to a VRML document from within a correctly configured WWW browser, a
VRML viewer is launched. Thus VRML viewers are the perfect companion
applications to standard WWW browsers for navigating and visualizing the Web.
3.2.8) LIVE3D BY NETSCAPE
This high-performance 3D VRML platform lets you fly through VRML worlds on
the Web and run interactive,multiuser VRML applications written in Java.
Netscape Live3D features 3D text, background images, texture animation,
morphing, viewpoints, collision detection, gravity, and RealAudio streaming
sound. Download Live3D and view the VRML worlds available at many Web
sites.
Live3D extends Navigator 3.0 into the 3D realm. With this VRML (Virtual
Reality Modeling Language) viewer, you can experience a rich new world of 3D
spaces and interact with text, images, animation, sound, music, and even video. Its
many groundbreaking new features include:
High-performance VRML viewing - Live3D lets you access distributed 3D spaces
rendered at maximum speed with adaptive rendering, background
processing,hardware acceleration, and GZIP data compression.
Animation - Live3D worlds can be full of objects with rich, lifelike behaviors.
Navigation - Live3D makes it easy to navigate in 3D space by letting you walk,
fly, or point. Selectable camera viewpoints, collision detection, and optional
gravity add flexibility and realism to navigation.
Multimedia - Live3D offers full integration with LiveMedia for streaming audio
and video in 3D space.
3D Applications - Soon, you will be able to run 3D applications written for the
Live3D platform. Examples include multiuser 3D games, chat environments,
geographical information systems, authoring environments, interactive
advertisements, online presentations, and database visualizations.
3.2.9) MIDI
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface and has been the rage among
electronic musicians throughout its six year existence. It is a powerful tool for
composers and teachers alike. It allows musicians to be more creative on stage and
in the studio. It allows composers to write music that no human could ever
perform. But it is NOT a tangible object, a thing to be had. MIDI is a
communications protocol that allows electronic musical instruments to interact
with each other.
CRESCENDO
Quite simply, Crescendo is a Web music player. It's web-downloadable software
for Netscape and Microsoft browsers that lets you listen to MIDI music as you
browse a web site. Over one thousand sites already have it...and hundreds more are
being added each month.
3.2.10) VIVOACTIVE
VivoActive is the simplest,fastest way to get video clips on your Web page. Video
for Windows AVI files are compressed up to 250:1, and the resulting VIV files
can be viewed with the VivoActive Player as they download. VivoActive videos
are transmitted using HTTP, so anyone who can view your Web pages can see
your video.
3.2.11) SIZZLER
Sizzler allows simultaneous viewing and interaction with Web pages while
streaming animation is delivered over the Web. Now you don't have to wait for an
animation to download completely before viewing it.
3.2.12) RGB HEX TRIPLET COLOR CHART
RGB Hex triplet Color Chart is the easy way to pick colors for your site.
3.2.13) VOCALTEC INTERNET PHONE
The VocalTec Internet Phone lets you make calls to Internet Phone users from
within a Web browser. Standard hypertext links to Internet Phone users or topics
can be added to Web pages. When you choose such a link in a Web browser, the
Web browser automatically runs Internet Phone, which starts a call to the user.
You can create your own custom Internet Phone phone-books, and even add direct
Internet Phone links to your Home Page!
VocalTec software enables audio,video, data, text and collaborative
communications between personal computers and other devices over the Internet.
The company is a leader in developing innovative, open standards products that
bridge the Internet and the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN)
and drive the convergence of computing and telephone technologies.
3.2.14) VDOLIVE
VDOLive features real time video.
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