The following resources are either free or available through the University
of Houston site licenses.
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Real Media Player |
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Windows Media Player |
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QuickTime Player |
At its simplest, QuickTime is software that allows Mac and Windows users
to play back audio and video on their computers. But taking a deeper
look, QuickTime is many things: a file format, an environment for media
authoring, and a suite of applications:
- QuickTime Player - for playing back audio and video files
- QuickTime Pro - for flexible multimedia authoring
- Browser plug-ins - for viewing media within a web page
- PictureViewer - for working with still images (Windows only;
Preview is available on Mac OS X)
- QuickTime Streaming Server - for delivering streaming media files
on the Internet in real time
- Darwin Streaming Server - for delivering streaming media with
Linux, Solaris, and Windows
- QuickTime Broadcaster - for delivering live events on the Internet
- MPEG-2 Playback Component - for playing back MPEG-2 content.
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Shockwave Player |
Shockwave Player is the web
standard for powerful multimedia playback. The Shockwave Player allows you
to view interactive web content like games, business presentations,
entertainment, and advertisements from your web browser. |
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Flash Player |
Macromedia Flash Player is the universal rich client for
delivering effective Macromedia Flash experiences across desktops and
devices. Flash lets designers and developers integrate video, text, audio,
and graphics into effective experiences that deliver superior results for
interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and rich Internet
applications. Flash is the world's most pervasive software platform,
reaching 97% of Internet-enabled desktops worldwide, as well as many popular
devices. |
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PowerPoint Viewer |
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Word Viewer |
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Acrobat Reader |
Adobe® Reader® 6.0 is free software
that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files on a
variety of hardware and operating system platforms. |
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Microsoft Producer |
Use Microsoft Producer 2003 for Microsoft Office PowerPoint
2003 to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then
preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing
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Impatica |
Impatica for PowerPoint is a Windows application that
converts PowerPoint files into a compressed format that is optimized for
streaming over the Internet. Impatica for PowerPoint supports most of the
features of PowerPoint, including text, graphics, transitions, animation
effects and narration. Prior to the first use of the product, get the
registration codes by contacting the Academic Technology Support Center,
713-743-1475,
webct@uh.edu. |
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Respondus |
Respondus is a Windows application that enhances the
functionality and usability of WebCT's quiz, survey, and self-test tools for
instructors and course designers. Obtain username, password and
installation instructions from the Academic Technology Support Center at
713-743-1475 or
webct@uh.edu. |
