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Introduction

Welcome to RealSystem, the most sophisticated system for streaming multimedia files across a network. This manual will help you produce your multimedia presentation, whether you want to stream a video from your home page or create a multimedia extravaganza with video, audio, animation, still images, and text.

How to Use this Manual

This manual tells how to assemble a RealMedia presentation. Although it gives tips on producing great content, the more you know about producing audio, video, and graphics, the faster you'll put together a great streaming presentation. If you know the basics of HTML, you'll find it easy to pick up SMIL, the language used to assemble a RealMedia presentation.

Chapter 1: What's New in RealSystem G2?

If you're familiar with previous versions of RealSystem, this chapter will give you a quick update on the many aspects of streaming that have changed in RealSystem G2.

Chapter 2: Creating a RealMedia Presentation

This chapter walks you through the steps you take to put together a streaming multimedia presentation. It also explains how to target a bandwidth connection.

Chapter 3: Producing Audio

This chapter gives you pointers on capturing and digitizing high-quality audio. It then gives you the background you need to encode the audio source for streaming.

Chapter 4: Producing Video

Read this chapter to learn how to capture high-quality video and optimize it for RealMedia streaming.

Chapter 5: Producing Animation

Macromedia's Flash animation paired with a RealAudio soundtrack produces dazzling animated presentations. This chapter tells you how to create RealFlash content.

Chapter 6: Assembling a Presentation with SMIL

After you create your multimedia files, you write a simple file that pulls the presentation together. This chapter tells you how to write this file to specify when and how each part of your presentation plays.

Chapter 7: Playing a Presentation in a Web Page

To integrate your presentation seamlessly in your Web page instead of playing it back in RealPlayer, follow the instructions in this chapter.

Chapter 8: Inserting Ads in your Presentation

Using RealServer, you can insert ads into your streaming presentation. This chapter explains how to prepare your advertising media and set up ad rotation.

Chapter 9: Delivering Your Presentation

This chapter provides step-by-step instructions for moving your presentation files to RealServer and linking your Web page to them. It also tells how you can use a standard Web server for simple media streaming.

Chapter 10: Broadcasting Live

Refer to this chapter if you plan to broadcast an audio or video event live.

Chapter 11: Using RealMedia Logos

Look here for guidelines on using RealMedia logos on your Web pages.

Appendix A: File Type Reference

This appendix provides a simple reference for file types used in RealMedia streaming.

Conventions in this Manual

The following table explains the conventions used in this manual.

ConventionMeaning
variables Italicized text represents variables. Substitute values appropriate for your situation.
[options] Square brackets indicate optional values you may or may not need to use.
choice 1|choice 2 Vertical lines separate values you can choose between.
... Ellipses indicate nonessential information omitted from the example.

Additional RealSystem Resources

In addition to this manual, you may need the following RealNetworks resources, available at http://www.real.com:


Copyright © 1998 RealNetworks
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This file last updated on 05/20/98 at 16:51:51.
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