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Fundamentals of Website Development - Course Resources

Last night I had the privilege of giving a guest lecture on streaming video in Dave Heitmeyer's Harvard course, Fundamentals of Web Development.  As a follow-up, here are some further information and references on topics that came up in the class.

• Streaming media metafiles
• RealVideo RAM
• WindowsMedia ASX
• Quicktime QTL
• SMIL
• An old article from WebTechniques magazine in 1998, but still a good illustration of what's possible)  [code example and download site]  [original article]
• More recent SMIL 2.0 documentation from RealNetworks
• The "Chess Playing" SMIL demos I showed in class (from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Article on embedded event triggers in media files - Again, an old one.  Security changes in browsers have made some of these examples not work right anymore without some tweaking.  But the basic embedding technique is still valid for simple things like loading a new URL into another frame. .  
• Real's documentation on event triggers: [pdf file] - look for the section called DEFINING EVENTS AND IMAGE MAPS
• Captioning with SMIL or RealText
• Info on the full-featured, metafile-aware Flash Video Player 3.6
• Detailed and complete codec and encoding tool testing from streamingmedia.com - costs a few hundred bucks but well worth it if you need to be able to get top performance from your video encoding
• Free Akamai best practices gujides:  (BTW, I wrote these.  Akamai requests your contact info to download. they only ask once and you get unlimited, perpetual access to all the whitepapers.)
• Best Practices for Producing On-Demand Video for the Web - detailed info on formats, codecs, encoding practices, including what all the settings mean and how to select them]
• Best Practices for Podcasting - which codecs support which devices, and how do I produce and deliver podcasts

Anything I forgot..?  Leave me a comment and I'll update this as needed...