RealMedia plug-in options

You add RealMedia audio and video clips to your Web page using the RealMedia plug-in. The Real tab offers the following options:

Autostart

Select Autostart to play the audio or video as soon as the viewer opens the page.

No Labels

Select No Labels to suppress display of information such as title, author, and copyright for the multimedia clip.

Controls

Choose the controls provided with your multimedia clip from the Controls pop-up menu.

Note: You must have one RealMedia icon for each control--for example, if you want to provide both Play and Pause buttons for your multimedia clip, you must add a RealMedia icon and assign Play Button from the Controls pop-up menu, and then add a second RealMedia icon and assign Pause Button from the Controls pop-up. For more information on creating RealMedia for your Web site, consult the Adobe GoLive SMIL User Guide included as a PDF document on the GoLive application CD.

• Image Window to provide a context menu that allows the viewer to control playback in the playback area using controls such as Play and Stop. This context menu provides a choice of controls to let the viewer control the playback directly in the playback area. (Image Window is available only for videos and animations.)
• Control Panel (or Default) to display the default RealMedia Player control panel, which contains Play, Pause, Stop, Fast Forward, and Rewind buttons, Position and Volume sliders, and a Mute button that appears when the speaker is selected.
• Play Button to display a Play/Pause button.
• Play Only Button to display a Play button.
• Mute Control to display a Mute button.
• Mute Volume to display a mute button and volume slider.
• Position Slider to display a clip position slider.
• Clip Information to display an information field for information about the RealMedia clip.
• Home Control to display the RealMedia logo.
• Info Volume to display presentation information as well as a volume slider and a mute button.
• Info Panel to display the presentation information panel.
• Status Bar to display informational messages, the network congestion LED, and the position field, which indicates the current place in the presentation timeline along with total clip length.
• Status Field to display the message text area of the status bar. If no status field or status bar is embedded, error messages display in the browser's status bar.
• Position Field to display the clip's current place in the presentation timeline and the total clip length.

Console

Select an option from the Console pop-up menu to group multiple controls. For example, you can place different controls, such as a Play button, a Rewind button, and a Volume slider, in different HTML table cells spread over the page. You can then tie these controls together by assigning the same Console name to each of them. You assign a user-specified name in the Console text box, or you can choose a predefined name from the Console pop-up.

• Default to assign no Console name.
• _master to link the control to all other controls or groups of controls.
• _unique to avoid linking the control to any other control.

Controls that have no Console attribute assigned will be grouped together.