Why is Adobe Flash the best technology for Web audio and video?

  • Pervasive: larger installed base than Real Audio, Quicktime, or Windows Media
  • Transparent: just click to play immediately
  • Non-disruptive: no need to download software or switch between pages
  • Compatible: uses standard .mp3 audio files
  • Coming in late 2007, new versions of Flash will also play the next generation of H.264 video and AAC audio—DVD quality on your web page!

Demonstration

Click the blue buttons to play a high-bandwidth stereo version at 128 Kbps. (Intended for users with broadband connections; even higher data rates could be used for better quality sound).

Click the green buttons to play a low-bandwidth version at 32 Kbps. (Intended for users with a dial-up analog modem connections.)

Troubleshooting

Back to Alta Publishing

Track 1
Peter Phippen - Shadows of Dawn
Dawning [low G# Anasazi]
Track 2
Richard Saggio - Hollow Bone
Still Small Voice [low D]
Track 3
Jeff Ball - The Shape of Light
Drawing in Embers [low C]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Track 4
Richard Saggio - The Thunder of Silence
Consciousness Unfolding