Audio and Video help

To enjoy these Internet tour's to their fullest, you will need a Web browser that supports forms. As for hardware, you will want 16-bit video (a video card that can display thousands of colors) or better, and sound support. All of our videos are in the Quicktime format. Links to Windows and Mac viewers are provided below. There are also some au and wav audio as well as RealAudio files available.

RealAudio: The client for most platform's can be found at this location.

Download and installation instructions (for Windows):
Using File Manager or Program Manager, find the file you downloaded (it's where your Web browser saved it) and launch the file. This will begin the RealAudio Setup process. Then read the RealAudio Help & FAQ for the RealAudio Player 2.0 or 3.0 release notes.

Download and installation instructions (for Macintosh):
Click on the link above to begin downloading. Your Web browser should launch a helper application to convert the downloaded file into an executable application. Simply double-click on the application to install RealAudio. Then read the RealAudio Help & FAQ for the RealAudio Player 2.0 or 3.0 release notes.

Download and installation instructions (for UNIX):
Click on the link above to begin downloading. Once you've successfully completed the download, you will be ready to install the software. To do this, you must decompress and untar the file:
Type zcat | tar xvf - (filename will differ according to platform)
Example: zcat v2002b_irix.tar.Z | tar xvf -
Then read the RealAudio Help & FAQ for the RealAudio Player 2.0 release notes.

Adobe Acrobat reader: If you do not have a reader that can access Adobe Acrobat files, you may download the software free from Adobe.

Macintosh

• Software

  • Suggested browsers: Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer

  • QuickTime: QuickTime is the format we are using to playback all of our videos and also the audio files.

    Apple has released version 2.5 of QuickTime, the QuickTime Player and the QuickTime Plug-in. You can download it here. Just scroll down the directory list until you find QuickTime 2.5 (have your client set to load to disk before selecting this link).

  • JPEG Viewers: JPEG View (have your client set to load to disk before selecting this link), and it is postcard ware, so send a postcard to the author if you use it.

Windows

• Software

  • Suggested browsers: Netscape Navigator, Microsoft Explorer

  • Apple just recently made the newest version of QuickTime for Windows, 2.1.2 as well as the Player application and Plug-in , available. This is available for download here.

  • JPEG Viewers: Lview is a very good freeware viewer for GIFs and JPEGs. (Have your client set to load to disk befor selecting this link.)

  Troubleshooting

  • When I click on a link to a QuickTime movie, the player starts but hangs the machine before playing the movie.
    This seems to happen mostly with Apple's player. Read the readme file that came with the software. It will explain that you can edit the [Video] setting to Optimize=Driver to enhance compatibility. The readme file has other suggestions.

UNIX

• Software

  • Browsers: Two popular browsers are NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator.
  • QuickTime: Yes, there is a QuickTime viewer for UNIX. It is xanim, and it is good. It plays lots of other animation formats too.
  • JPEG Viewer: xv views JPEGs and most other graphics formats known to man.