Claude Almansi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "A Flash player with Smil support to meet GL 1.2, SC 1.2.5" > <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2007AprJun/0080.html>, > Wed, 2 May 2007 > > where he gives an accurate technical description of the player, an > example of which can be seen in > <http://www.webmultimediale.org/SC_1.2.5/> > > >From my non techie beta-tester's viewpoint: > > - Using a SMIL file (1) as a hub/cogwheel to synchronize the various > other involved files (video, audio, captioning text files) means that > you don't have to have a video editing software to insert the > subtitles in the video: they stay put in the lower part of the player. > (1) Re SMIL, see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language
That sounds like a very, very cool concept!!! I wonder though what it would take to get a multimedia player of this type which avoids the proprietary lock-in to Macromedia Flash? Greetings, Norbert. -- Norbert Bollow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://Norbert.ch President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG http://SIUG.ch _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@digitaldivide.net http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
