How to publish your moive clips to homepage
It is a good idea to publish some moives to enrich the content of your project. In view of this, our server allow our user to publish moive clips to your account with the following method. However, when you publish your moives, don't forget to miminize your file size. Otherwise, remote users connecting with modem (28.8Kps or 56K Kps) will suffering from the unacceptable resultslow .
Solution (1): Store your moive file in AVI, MPEG or Quicktime format
The most popular moive format in the Internet world is the AVI, MPEG and Quicktime formats. Movie with these file format can be viewed by remote users with Microsoft Media Player and Apple QuickTime Player. These two player programs are free and very popular in the Internet. So, don't worry that your user has any difficulities in accessing these player programs. With this solution, it is necessary to download the whole moive file to the visitor's machine before he/she can view it. The overhead downloading time is long but the moive can be played smoothly.
Solution(2): Steaming your movie file as Real format
Our web server is has installed the Real Basic Server (http://www.real.com) with provide the steaming technology. In such case, the moive file can be viewed by the user while the moive file is still downloading or before the completion of the download. To make use of this technology, you can refer to the following procedure:
Step 1: Encode your original moive files into Real format (*.rm).
Step 2: Transfer your file to your account in binary mode and save under the directory ~/public_html.
Step 3: Edit the RAM file with the following content and save it as <your moive filename>.ram
rtsp://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~<your
username>/<your moive filename>.rm
pnm://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/~<your
username>/<your moive filename>.rm
Step 4: Create a hyperlink in your homepage to point to the RAM file.
Then, your user can view the moive by using the RealPlayer or RealPlayer G2 program.