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Last updated 2/20/2008

To test the following multimedia web players, follow the main links. The players can be downloaded from the source website beside each item.

All links will open a new browser window.

Test Pages

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Test for Adobe Acrobat Reader

Bentley's 3D Project Proposal
Click this link to view a PDF with an embedded 3D illustration--a feature of this latest version.

Website for the FREE Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1

Tests for Flash Player:

Tour de France 2006
This is just too cool.

Keck Interferometer Virtual Tour
Also includes QuickTime player embedded on the page.

Toyota's Japan Home Page

National Geographic's Virtual Kelp Dive
Click the "launch deepworker" link.
Note: Does not require the latest player.

Macromedia's website for the free Flash Player 9

Test for Macromedia Shockwave Player

Pearson Prentice Hall's Paintball Catapult
Click to design and test your own paintball catapult.

Macromedia's website for the free Shockwave Player 10.2
For alternate Macromedia web players, see: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/

Test for QuickTime Player 7

QuickTime Movie Previews

Apple's website for the free QuickTime Player 7.3
Be sure to "Download the free player" for your OS, and uncheck the items under "Sign up" if you don't want them.

Test for RealPlayer

The Razor's Edge video
Click this link to launch a streaming video (sequence of photographs with audio) in RealPlayer.

Website for the free RealPlayer 11
(The link to "Get RealPlayer - Free " is on the right hand side of the screen under the heading "Basic Player.")

Test for Windows Media Player

MSNBC Video Headlines
Click "Watch the Headlines" to launch video screen; starts with a commercial.

Windows Media Player Test (Broadband)
Windows Media Player Test (Narrowband)

Microsoft's website for the free
Windows Media Player 11

Remember to download the version appropriate for your operating system.

See also the free Flip4Mac WMV Player
Allows Mac users to play Windows Media files (.wma and .wmv) in QuickTime Player.

 

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