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Streaming Slideshows on the World Wide Web

Imagine that it's a quiet Friday evening. There's nothing worth watching on TV, and you don't want to brave the cold weather to trudge to the video store. You fire up your trusty PC/TV and log onto the Internet. With a few clicks of your remote control you surf to the Videomaker Web site to watch a contest-winning video. Your screen flashes to black and the movie begins--with a picture so clear and sound so crisp it's like watching a DVD. "Who needs television?" you think aloud. In fact, you are so inspired by the quality of the video that you decide to put your latest creation on the Web for the world to see. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Sure. But right now Internet video is anything but smooth. Streaming video jerks along at 10-15 frames per second with a pixelized picture smaller than a soda cracker. "They call this video?" you scoff.

Does the current state of streaming video have you down? Hang in there, video enthusiast, because someday soon you will be able to transmit full-screen, full-motion video via the Internet. With all the Internet info-pipeline expansions that are coming, the situation will dramatically improve, but what about now?

There is another option. There is a way to get satisfactory playback from Internet streaming video, right now. The answer is to create productions in the sequential still f…

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Roger Wyatt | December 1999

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