Hi, Jon- I feel the very same way. We need a standardized way to deliver audio and video, that's clear. There are some detractors of SVG that complain about audio and video being in SVG, but it needs to happen somewhere (and after all, it's really just extending the hosted SMIL).
I think that we should actually mandate some open video format, such as Ogg Theora: http://www.theora.org/theorafaq.html Regards- -Doug Jon Ferraiolo wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > You asked, so I will answer. My opinion on audio and video is that I hope > the browser vendors see the multimedia light and implement the SMIL timing > and animation modules. They have to implement most of it anyway for SVG > 1.1, so why not have a bit of foresight and: > > * implement the few extra bits needed for future support for what is needed > for SVG-t 1.2 > * implement the timing and animation engines as separate modules from SVG > so that it can be used on HTML also (similar to HTML+TIME in IE5.5) > * support SVG-t 1.2's audio and video tags in conjuntion with SVG content > * support audio and video content in conjunction with HTML's object tag > > The tricky part is inclusion of industry-standard codecs, some of which > require paying licensing fees, which is hard for freely downloadable > software. To get around this issue, the browser vendors should hook into > existing audio/video player software (QuickTime, WMP, even maybe Flash) via > the HTML object tag which they control from their built-in SMIL engine. > > I think this is an important issue for that part of the industry that wants > to create standards-compliant content and not rely on proprietary formats > and single-vendor runtimes. Multimedia is hitting the mainstream (driven in > part by all of those young people uploading bad videos for the world to > see). We need a standards-based approach to playing that content in > conjunction with rich user interfaces. > > Jon > > > Jon Ferraiolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Web Architect, Emerging Technologies > IBM, Menlo Park, CA > Mobile: +1-650-464-7817 > > Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > > Jon, > > among other significant outstanding bugs that mozilla/firefox is > being really slow to resolve is the issue of audio or sound. > > Aywk adobe had sound support from the start as does flash. in fact > many authors use flash solely to provide audio on webpages. > > I just wondered whether you had considered this issue and whether you > felt it had relevance. > > cheers > > Jonathan Chetwynd ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
