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Windows Media Development

Multimedia in Education - An Overview

The use of technology in education is at its peak. Now, instructors can distribute their content to students anywhere and anytime. The emergence of media-content creation tools has provoked a revolution in the way classes are taught these days. Classroom lectures accompanied with multimedia content can greatly benefit students in understanding the concepts and even in preparing for an exam.

This website will guide you in encoding multimedia content to serve your audience. This website focuses on encoding audio-video media presentations to stream over the Internet using the Windows Media Player. View demo: Creating Web Folders in Windows 2000

Windows Media Player

Using Windows Media Encoder

This section of the website contains step by step instructions on how to encode multimedia content that is playable in Windows Media Player (like the one shown above) and created using Windows Media Encoder (screen shot below). The Windows Media Encoder and Player are part of the faculty desktops so you don't have to go through long download hassles. See: Launching Windows Media Encoder?

Windows Media Encoder

Now, that you have an overview of the Windows Media Encoder, move on to Developing Content section.

Please select your version of Windows Media: