HOW can I pay the audio and video parts of a World Wide Web document on the Internet. I have an old SoundBlaster version 2.0 card and an ET4000 super VGA card. Also, how can I save the pictures in a Web document? I can save the document, but the pictures seem to be missing when I retrieve it. ZARINO TONG Hong Kong There is no definitive answer to your first question. Whether or not you can play audio-visual files depends on whether your Web browser is configured to launch the appropriate viewer or player for the type of file you are downloading. Most browsers can be configured to launch a viewing application for multimedia files.
How you configure this depends on which browser you use. Your SoundBlaster system should have the software that will play sound files off the Internet. If you have a video card such as a VideoBlaster, it will probably come with software that will allow you to view video files off the Net. However, you still have to configure your Web browser to launch this software when it needs it.
If you are using the Netscape Web browser, go to Options from the main menu bar and select Preferences. Click on the down arrow next to the first drop-down menu box and choose Helper Applications. In there you will find a list of file types from which you can take your pick.
For example, if you want to play AVI files, select AVI, or MPEG for MPEG files, and so on. Then in the Actions box on the same screen, you have to tell Netscape what to do with the file. If you select Save, the file will be saved to disk for you to use later. If you select Launch Application, you will need to provide Netscape with the full path of the application you wish to launch. It will then do so and you can play your sound of video files.
Standalone pictures you can access through Web documents tend to be in formats such as .GIF or JPEG files and can be saved as such - unless, of course, they are 'in-line' images.
An in-line image is one that is built into the document itself and cannot be separated from it in the way of standalone images that Web links point to. When you save an HTML document, it will not save the in-line image but just a pointer to the image.