The only special software required to
see these movies is the free and ubiquitous Flash player from Adobe.
Industry reports say that 80 to 90% of the computers in use today already have
Flash running.*
Otherwise, this is an impressive way to spread your
message.
*Exceptions: some hyper-secure sites, and
some computers with protection which will require an added click to override
the protection.
Here is a sample
page that demonstrates the capability of displaying multiple movies
simultaneously. This approach gives you 100% branding, and does not
use YouTube or other such mega-site. This design uses a popular method of
delivering movies, Flash, so they will play on Mac or Windows, and on multiple
browsers. I have successfully tested this to work with PC's using Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4, and
Microsoft IE6 and IE7.
The static graphics here are a mish-mash, only because
various techniques are being demonstrated.
This MR angio video clip, "4D_TRACKS,"
is used by permission of Philips Medical Systems. It demonstrates an arterio-venous
malformation.
Image data can be
converted into 3D objects that are accurate reproductions of the patient's
anatomy.
The size and
proportion of the movies
are easily changeable.
Building movies into web sites this way is a
manual process done in the HTML code, and it is certainly practical for a
limited number of movies.
Accomplishing this demo involved using Riva to convert avi and mpeg files into
flash video (flv) at 320x240 25 fps, then getting a SWF Flash player named FlowPlayer to play the
embedded flv files. It was all done in HTML within Front Page. No use of Flash itself,
or Dreamweaver, or any other web-building software.