This tutorial will do take us through the entire process of the multimedia-izing Web. We will start with a basics, showing how to pack the toolbox so that we can experience everything. Then we will move on to the capturing, preparing, and then publishing the multimedia using a RealNetwork's RealMedia. We will conclude with a look at the stream like how to stream the media files using a RealServer.

Multimedia was a big buzz of the year 1992, and every corporation, the magazine, and the local store had the CD-ROM or the "enhanced CD" in the development. When a Web hit the big in the year 1996, the newbies used to the personal computers environment naturally expected the certain level of sound and the vision from the new kid on a high-tech block. Unfortunately, thanks to the bandwidth restrictions, it was just not possible to display the full-motion video with a stereo sound over a Web.