From: "John Bowskill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Playing SMIL files locally (CD-ROM)
Damon,
I have had this same problem. RealPlayerG2 on windows was fine (not on the
Mac). You could link to a .smi or .ram file. in Navigator and in IE. But
RealPlayer version 7 on Navigator downloads the .smi or .ram file to your
temp directory and then relatave links to files from the smi file fail to
work. An option is to use absolute file links but that is not much use when
different users have their CDROM drives mapped as different drive letters.
The only work-around I have found is to not use the browser at all. The user
has to use the player to open a menu page built with SMIL. Hyperlinks in the
SMIL file then send the player off to play other SMIL files that have return
links built into them.
if there is a better solution then I too would like to hear about it. By the
way, does anyone know the scheduled release date for RealPlayer v7 on the
Mac? I have asked Real but no answer yet. Currently, the license agreement
for distribution of players on CDROM's allows only for G2 on the Mac and v7
on Windows. I have found the beta v7 is far more stable than G2 for local
playback on the Mac.
John Bowskill
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Subject: Playing SMIL files locally (CD-ROM)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damon Betlow)
Subject: Playing SMIL files locally (CD-ROM)
Hi,
I need help desperately.
I can't seem to play a SMIL file from a cd-rom or locally in Netscape 4.7.
Works fine with IE 5.0.
I've tried linking directly to the SMIL file, using a .ram file to link to
the SMIL file with:
file://test.smi
and
file:test.smi
How do I do this? I need to burn ASAP.
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