| Video on the net has evolved much quicker than anyone originally expected. Today you can get full screen, 30 frames per second, video at several sites. And yes now even HD quality or better. Here’s a few sites to get you started and the tools you’ll need along the way. | ||
| Watch Higher Quality YouTube Videos The Wired Wiki has a good article about just this. |
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| Video Sites: | Stage Six | Youtube |
| In2TV | Google Video | |
| Stickam | Live Video Mississippi Senate | |
| National Geographic | 60 Minutes on Yahoo News |
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| Video Players: | ||
| Plays most any video and/or audio file if you have the proper codecs(see below) installed. | ||
| This player keeps hangin in there despite being owned by AOL for sometime now. One time king of web video, lost popularity when taken over by AOL, obviously. | ||
| I remember when these guys brought audio to the net for the first time. It was Real Audio Player beta version .8 or something. You could download and install it. Only one audio clip on the whole net though, best I can ‘member, it was a 30 second clip of “Outer Limits”. It was literally, music to our ears. We listened and dreamed of things to come. | ||
| Plays many video files as well as audio, which it is best known for. I really think it’s not well suited for this job. | ||
| Web browsers need this to view all those fabulous moving pictures on the web. It is a must have for web surfing. | ||
| If you’ve somehow downloaded and managed to save one of those flash movies, use this player to view it. File extension .flv | ||
| Presently the most popular encoding scheme for high quality video compression. The codec pack will allow you to play Divx encoded movies in Windows Media PLayer. However the player is worth a look. | ||
| 800 million downloads, nuff said. Update your computer will many of the codecs in use today. The pack includes the Windows Media Player classic, which is invaluable for viewing older digital movies. | ||
| The world according to Apple and their movie player for the “.mov” file extension. Long time heavy weight in web video. | ||
| Plays all the file extensions that I’ve tried on it. More features than your standard players. I like. | ||


