Let's all go to the movies
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Until now, viewing movies and animations on the web has been a tortuous and slow process involving configuration of helper applications, choosing between a wide range of incompatible file formats, and interminable waits for huge files to download. So, web movies have remained to some extent the province of net-obsessives, and they don’t yet play much of a part in the average biologist’s day-to-day use of the internet. The impending arrival of version 3.0 of Netscape’s Navigator should help bring movies to a wider audience. For the first time — thanks to an agreement between Apple and Netscape — both Windows and Macintosh Netscape browsers will be able automatically to play a common movie format, known as Quicktime. No extra helper applications are necessary, and movies can be embedded into HTML web pages as easily as static image GIFs. The other major standard for viewing movies on the web is MPEG, but MPEG files suffer the disadvantage of being so tightly compressed that they can only be effectively decompressed and played back on an extremely fast computer, or with a dedicated accelerator board. MPEG files are not supported by Netscape 3.0 directly, and they still require helper software. Beta-test versions of Netscape 3.0 are already available for downloading from Netscape’s site, but if you prefer not to use unreleased software, there are also several ‘plugins’ available which will play embedded Quicktime movies on Windows PCs and Macintoshes. Several plugins claim to play all the major movie formats; moreover, ‘streaming’ — the ability to watch a movie while it is still downloading — is becoming the norm. All of this means that so long as you have a reasonably fast internet connection, downloading and viewing movies is really quite a reasonable prospect.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996