Video Guide

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 VideosThe Wired Wiki has a good article about just this.
Video Sites:
Stage Six

Youtube
 
In2TV		 Google Video
 

Stickam
Live
Video Mississippi Senate
 
National
Geographic
60 Minutes onYahoo News

Video Players:		  
   



Windows Media Player 11

 Plays most any video and/or audio file if you have the proper codecs(see
below) installed.
 
 

Real Player

 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.



WinAmp (yep does vids too)

 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.
 



Flash Player

 Web browsers need this to view all those fabulous moving pictures on the web. It is a must have for web surfing.


FLV Flash
Player

 If you’ve somehow downloaded and managed to save one of those flash movies, use this player to view it.  File extension .flv



Divx Player/Codec

 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.


XP Codec Pack

 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.


Apple Quick Time

 The world according to Apple and their movie player for the “.mov” file extension.  Long time heavy weight in web video.
   


VLC

 Plays all the file extensions that I’ve tried on it.
More features than your standard players.  I like.
   
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Posted by melt on May 29th, 2008

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