1. Multimedia

2. What is multimedia? Multimedia is everything you can hear or see: texts, books, pictures, music, sounds, CDs, videos, DVDs, Records, Films, and more.

3. Sound Format The MIDI Format: The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is a format for sending music information. The RealAudio Format: audio and video The AU Format: The AU format is supported by many different software systems over a large range of platforms. The AIFF Format: By Apple Wave: The WAVE (waveform) format is developed by IBM and Microsoft. It is supported by all computers running Windows, and by all the most popular web browsers. Sounds stored in the WAVE format have the extension.wav. The MP3 Format (MPEG):MP3 files are actually MPEG files. But the MPEG format was originally developed for video by the Moving Pictures Experts Group.

4. Video Format The AVI Format: The AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format was developed by Microsoft. The Windows Media Format:Videos stored in the Windows Media format have the extension.wmv. The MPEG Format: Videos stored in the MPEG format have the extension.mpg or.mpeg. The QuickTime Format: Videos stored in the QuickTime format have the extension.mov. The RealVideo Format: The RealVideo format was developed for the Internet by Real Media. The format allows streaming of video (on-line video, Internet TV) with low bandwidths. Videos stored in the RealVideo format have the extension.rm or.ram. The Shockwave (Flash) Format: Videos stored in the Shockwave format have the extension.swf.

5. Windows Format The ASX Format: ASX (Advanced Stream Redirector) files are not media files, but metafiles. Metafiles provides information about files. ASX files are plain text files used to describe multimedia content: Holiday 2001 WMA: Windows media audio WMV: Windows media video

6. Inline Sound/video: When sound/video is included in a web page, or as part of a web page, it is called inline sound/video. Using A Helper (Plug-In): Helper applications can be launched using the or the tag.

7. Using The Tag The purpose of the tag is to embed multimedia elements in web page. Using The Tag

8. Using A Hyperlink: Download Audio If a web page includes a hyperlink to a media file, most browsers will use a "helper application" to play the file. Play the Beatles

9. Displaying a Audio Displaying a Video

10. The Realvideo format

11. Adding QuickTime format

12. Add Flash File is supported by Internet explorer is supported by IE, netscape etc…