The first public demonstration of Surround Video was the Connections title, showcased at the January 1995 Consumer Electronics Show and starring the popular historian James Burke. This technology presents new editorial opportunities to a variety of entertainment and educational uses. Adventure style games authored with photo-realistic backgrounds are one opportunity. Another is guided tours of major cities, museums, real estate listings, etc. The VDOLive ActiveX brings real-time audio and video right into Internet Explorer, without the need for a helper application is needed.
Video is downloaded progressively from a server.
The VideoPlay control allows for the playback of AVI, MPEG and QuickTime digital video. You simply drag out the VideoPlay control onto a form and set a few properties. VideoPlay stresses visual layout since you can see the video during design time. The power of the VideoPlay control is in the properties and methods which gives you all the power of MCI command without the hassle. This ActiveX Control provides highly flexible viewing for all kinds of scanned documents and is superior when it comes to displaying large format images such engineering drawings and large volumes of multi-page document images such as regulations and financial documents.