“Webmasters now have the flexibility to add a wider range of compelling multimedia content to their Web pages and have confidence that it can best be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.”įor the Internet, highlights of ActiveMovie include these features:

Said John Ludwig, vice president of Internet platforms, multimedia division, at Microsoft. “By including ActiveMovie in Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft is providing a single solution to make it easy for users to view movies and hear audio content present on the Internet,” Users can download the Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 beta 2 version with a beta release of ActiveMovie from the Microsoft Internet Explorer Web site free of charge. Technology for accelerating video playback. Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 is the first browser for the World Wide Web to provide built-in playback support for MPEG video and audio, and the first to take advantage of Microsoft’s DirectX

With ActiveMovie runtime components built into Microsoft Internet Explorer, consumers will have an easy and quick way to download and play video and audio in all major formats on the Internet. ™ API, the next-generation digital video and audio technology for the desktop and the Internet, will be included as part of Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 3.0.

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