Find Sound & Video

Library Sources

Audiovisual Media online at the WVU Libraries
Includes streaming commercial videos, WVU Libraries MediaSite Audio/Video Streaming, Patrick Ward Gainer's Child Ballads of West Virginia, and the Benedum Lectures.

Library Database

Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains over 50 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. PLEASE VIEW IN MOZILLA FIREFOX!

Media Services Collections at the WVU Libraries:

New Items
DVD
VHS
Feature films
Foreign films
Documentary films
Musicals
West Virginia
Horror films
Detective films
American drama
Drama 20th century
Use the MountainLynx catalog to conduct a search for films owned by the Libraries.
Slides to show you how to find materials in the Media Services Collection
Slides to show you how to retrieve only videos or only in a certain language

Web Sources

AllTheWeb
To find video files, use the "Video" tab. Choose the "Audio" tab to find MP3 and other sound files.

AltaVista Audio Search
Indexes all digital file formats such as MP3 music files.

AltaVista Video Search
Indexes all digital video formats such as MPG, MOV, and AVI.

Google Video
Search thousands of videos, TV shows, movies, and more

Lycos Search for Multimedia
The Lycos multimedia search service. Lets you find pictures from licensed collections and from across the web. Also provides options to search for audio & MP3 files, as well as video clips.

MIDI Explorer (MIDI sound files only)
Allows you to search for MIDI files.

Singing Fish
Indexes multimedia formats including Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, and MP3s. Searchable by keyword, duration, format, and category.

SpeechBot
Lets you search through the audio files of popular US radio programs. Enter a subject, and you'll be shown matching programs and be taken to the exact points in the shows where the subject is being discussed.

You Tube
Searchable user built site with accounts, groups, and categories.