On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:06:34 +0200, John C. Turnbull
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it possible to include video content in an SVG?
Yes, in principle. And the markup is as (un)complicated as
...
<video x="50%" y="150" xlink:href="7train.ogg" type="application/ogg"/>
...
(There's more in the SVG 1.2 spec)
> If so, what actually plays the video? Perhaps it could
> link in with Windows Media Player or the
> appropriate media player on the target platform somehow?
That's the hard bit. Right now, there is no particular format mandated, so
you depend on guessing what the platform has. You can get an Opera build
[1] for desktop platforms (linux, mac, windows 95+) that implements
Ogg/Theora natively and there are documented demos so you can see how to
use it.
Mozilla have announced support for Ogg/Theora in the next version of
Firefox. That would be nice - having a single, patent-free baseline format
would help interoperability a lot. (I don't know if you've noticed, but
Windows media player isn't available on all platforms ;) ).
But at the moment, you just play lotto, guessing what decoders are going
to be available :( Effectively, that makes it hard to use in a situation
where you are relying on the video. (For accessibility reasons you
shouldn't anyway. On the plus side things like animation make SVG a great
choice for improving video accessibility).
If you think this sucks, please lobby your local video standards guy to
push for a real improvement in the situation (e.g. Ogg/Theora was removed
from HTML 5 because Nokia said they wouldn't implement it...)
cheers
Chaals
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