John Dowdell wrote:
Jakub Kahovec wrote:
  
Do you think is it worthy of consideration to start developing an Flash 
open source SMIL player or has already exist any or is SMIL too 
complicated or have you got an experience with another projects and 
specs for multimedia presentations ?
    

Claus Wahlers has done some prototype work on a SWF-based SMIL renderer:
http://wahlers.com.br/claus/blog/display-svg-in-97-of-all-web-browsers/
  
It's quite nice and interesting concept, unfortunately its originally written for Flash 6. So I think it would need to be completely rewritten  in order  to
get better performance and also for better future compatibility
There was conversation back towards 1998 of rendering SMIL instructions 
in Shockwave, but not many people found it worth the time investment to 
produce it... here's a Google cached record of one such discussion:
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:oaS4LQviMuwJ:listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe%3FA2%3Dind9804b%26L%3Ddirect-l%26F%3D%26S%3D%26P%3D43848+dowdell+smil+director&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=8&client=firefox-a

Do you have an idea of who would find it advantageous to structure their 
presentations in SMIL? Working backwards from the user-scenario might be 
a way to actually move things forward.
  
I think it would nice to have a kind of standard specification for creating multimedia presentations, as people can then share them, collaborate on them and use them very easily. It's especially convenient for e-learning purposes. I personally know a lot of e-tutors who are usually struggling with compatibility, usability and sustainability of multimedia presentations and also with a manner how to present them as to many people as possible and as easy as possible. So if there is a standard, widely spread, used and supported  it would make all these people's life much easier.

Jakub

jd




  


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