On Fri, 12 May 2006 06:48:47 +0200, Adrian Miles 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> smil does not let you add links on parts of video, only the entire video.

That depends a lot on how creative you get with it. :o)
If you use the <a> element on the video layer, then you can only make the 
entire video into a link. You can add text layers which include links, but 
text in Quicktime SMIL is notoriously fickle (best use native Quicktime in 
that case). But you can work with images-as-links in Quicktime SMIL which 
works reasonably well. You can then use transparent or semi-tranparent 
images to act as time-based hotspots in the video.

But really native Quicktime files are much more robust. SMIL is good 
because it's easier to automate (since it's XML) and because it's free 
(it's good if you can't/won't pay for eZedia). The observant reader will 
notice that I use SMIL on my blog from time to time - that's because of 
the automation. :o)

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