Packaging Movies For Distribution; Shockwave Browser Compatibility - MACROMEDIA DIRECTOR MX-USING DIRECTOR MX Use Manual

When you finish authoring your Macromedia Director MX movie, you have a choice of several
ways to prepare it for distribution. You can distribute a movie in the Shockwave format that plays
in a browser or as a stand-alone projector. Stand-alone projectors can contain the software
necessary to play the movie, or they can use an installed Shockwave player to play the movie
independently of a browser. You can also export a movie as a digital video.
You can use several Director features to prepare movies for distribution. These features include
determining Publish settings and deciding which Xtra extensions to include or download. You
can also preview your movie in a browser and batch-process movie files to compress them and
protect them from being edited.

Shockwave browser compatibility

Shockwave works with Netscape Navigator as a plug-in, with Microsoft Internet Explorer for
Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP as an ActiveX control, and with Microsoft Internet Explorer
for Mac OS as a plug-in. Shockwave can play Director movies in the following browsers:
Browser
Netscape Navigator
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Microsoft Internet Explorer
America Online
When it first encounters an HTML page that references Shockwave, Internet Explorer for
Windows asks the user for permission to download the Shockwave ActiveX control if it is not
already installed. If the user approves, it downloads and installs the control.

Packaging Movies for Distribution

Version
4.0 or later
4.0 or later
4.5 or later
5.1 or later
4.0 or later
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Platform
Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT4.0 or later, Mac OS
8.6 - 9.x
Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT4.0 or later
Mac OS 8.6 - 9.x
Mac OS 10.1 or later
Windows 95/98/2000/XP/NT4.0 or later, Mac OS
8.6 - 9.x
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