Mac

Windows

If you have problems during installation of any program, try copying its folder from the CD to your hard drive and running the setup program from there.

NET TOOB Stream
from Digital Bitcasting Corp. ©1998
(Win95 / NT4)

NET TOOB enables playback of MPEG-1, Video for Windows (AVI), QuickTime for Windows (MOV), QuickTime VR 'object' files, Autodesk Animations (FLC/FLI), WAV audio and MIDI audio. This same utility offers video screen saver capabilities, so users can create a personalised screen saver with any video they enjoy.

You can register NET TOOB at www.bitcasting.com/

You can create video hotspots within your animation or video that hyperlinks additional media, including text, sounds, pictures, URLs, other videos, and even executables, creating an interactive video component for your presentation or Web page.

Note that you need a relatively high powered system to run this software productively.

There is also a plug-in for Netscape that you can install.

Web link: www.visualshock.com/

You will find many different communities in Active Worlds, where you can opt to be an observer or an active member. This trial guest membership to the system has some limitations but gives you a full experience. The speed of movement through the virtual worlds is generally reasonably fast and you can set preferences for quality of graphics etc. — there is an enforced policy against abusive behaviour, though you can set options for ratings along the lines of movies which can protect you or involve you in a more permissive society.

Web link: www.activeworlds.com/

This unregistered shareware version will execute for one hour, after which you must restart the application.

But Webcam32 is a serious piece of software that gives you great opportunities for 'live' Web content. Webcam32 captures images (upon request) from your video capture device, converts them into a JPEG encoded form and sends them to the requester of the image over TCP/IP (the Internet or Intranet).

If used as a Web Server, Webcam32 need only be started and then HTTP requests submitted to Webcam32 will result in a formatted HTTP response containing the image being sent back to the browser.

Web link: www.kolban.com/webcam32/

Apple QuickTime
(Win3.x)

This is a set of audio and video client, server and production applications – see the EMU Live Web site for more information.

EMULive FSx Broadcast Server v3.2
– install...
(Server will run for a maximum of 10 minutes.)

EMULive PVx AV Broadcast Receiver for FSx Server v3.2
– install...
(Freeware — updated since last inclusion)

EMUWave Live Audio Encoder v2.4
– install...
(Application will run for a maximum of 10 minutes.)

EMULive PRO Video Producer v3.99b
– install...
(Application will run for a maximum of 10 minutes.)

EMUWave Receiver v3.2
– install...
(Freeware — updated since last inclusion)

Go to the RealNetworks Web site to download an appropriate version of their Basic Server 5 software if you need to enable your system to serve Real Audio.

There's a Java applet in the software\windows\multimed\real5 folder that allows you to control the appearance and function of the RealPlayer. You may need the RA Classes there too – copy the RAClasses.zip file to your browser's plugins folder and unzip it there.

GoldWave can be run directly from the CD (click the link above) or you can copy the goldwave folder from the software\windows\multimed folder on the CD to your hard disk and run goldwave.exe from there.

Mac OS

NOTE: The Mac programs on this CD are mostly in archived 'HQX' (BinHex) files – they can be extracted with several applications, including Stuffit (which is on the CD...). Clicking on the links below should set the process in motion.

Use MooVer to create computer animations and slide shows, or to convert batches of images or sounds into QuickTime movie format. Version 1.6 adds flexible scaling/cropping options and appearance manager support, and handles 8- and 16-bit mono/stereo sound files up to 44kbps in size.

RealPlayer 5