Video Clips

Common Video Formats

There was a time when showing video on the Net was more 'dreamin' than 'streamin'. Lately, we are seeing better bandwidth and more refined tools for digital content creation and delivery over the Web. The main event seems to be shaping up as a three-way match between Real G2, Microsoft Media Player and Apple's QuickTime. Let's get the lowdown:

Quicktime   |   AVI   |   RealVideo

CyberTech Media Group does a great job of comparing the three. Check it out.

Finding Video Clips

Here is a list of some of the more common places you can go to find video clips:

Open Video Project

YouTube

Altavista - A popular general search engine with multimedia.

HotBot - A popular general search engine with multimedia.

American Memory Collection

The Internet Archive: Movies Collection

Yahoo Multimedia Section (a listing of multimedia sites registered on Yahoo with various video clips)

Yahoo Movie Trailers Section (a listing of multimedia sites registered on Yahoo with various movies trailers and clips)