Funny, I was looking at SMIL a bit a few days ago, because this N95 supports it, and I hadnt realised that its used in Multimedia message stuff on mobiles.
Seems like Real Player is better for SMIL than quicktime, in that it supports version 2. I havent paid much attention to Real Player for years because I dont take it seriously on the desktop anymore, but on this N95 its providing the mpeg4 and h264 playback. Hmmm, this stuff is depressingly underevolved, same as SVG. And again SVG seems healthiest on the mobile, where SVG-Tiny is actually being used for real world stuff. So Id really like to use this stuff, but Im depressed by the state of the tools. Flash being used to render SMIL, filling the gap whilst waiting for better support in browsers etc, does sound like a nice option. A full implementation sounds like a lot of work but something that could provide a few different things, would be a good start. Bugs, clickable URL's, and fancy related videos at the end, all sound like useful things to start with, although Im personally not quite sure how sought-after the youtube stuff is, whether theres a need to compete with it, maybe there is. I guess its something that 'networks' of net video might be interested in, if you embed your video in your blog and at the end it gives links to other shows on that 'netowrk' and stuff like that? Cheers Steve Elbows -- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, sull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > regarding vpip, smil, rss and hyperlinks.... > that recipe was tried last year on a prototype site i had tossed up for > experimenting. > > http://vlogwall.com/vodcasts > > doesnt work great though. > > I have been trying to get Jeroen to have his flash player understand SMIL in > addition to RSS and XSPF. > that would be splendicious ;) > > sull > > On 4/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > I'm still hoping vPIP from Enric keeps evolving... there should be a > > way to make put a "wrapper" such as SMIL around pretty much any video > > file... or use flash to wrap flash... so you can pass vPIP info.. > > like a url... or even more advanced... specify and RSS feed when you > > call vPIP, and have vpip display the last three posts from that RSS > > feed (maybe even their thumbnails) and link directly to them. > > > > Ultimately if I understand the larger issues with this discussion we > > need some sort of distributed and transparent means for independant > > videobloggers to compete with youtube's recommendation engine. Which > > is to say when a video ends some sort of dynamicly generated screen > > should come up recommending like videos or other videos from your > > videoblog. I think vPIP could do this. > > > > -Mike > > mmeiser.com/blog > > mefeedia.com > > > > > > On 4/7/07, Kath O'Donnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <aliak77%40gmail.com>> wrote: > > > Hi Nick, sorry to hear you're having problems with the tutorials. the > > one > > > posted in the link below is a bit disjointed as I haven't uploaded the > > > images to go with them so it's harder to follow. maybe the word doc in > > the > > > zip file might be better as it has examples (this & an rtf version are > > > attached to the post/link below). these are for quicktime. basically > > it's > > > creating a text file/text track using the correct codes and reinserting > > it > > > back into the qt movie. once u've done it a couple of times it's pretty > > > straightforward but is fiddly the first couple of times as it's not a > > > one-step action. so using the other software mentioned in this thread is > > > probably a more straightforward method. I found Andreas' linkubator very > > > good also. (& for smil examples). but if u do perservere with the > > tutorial & > > > have problems let me know and I'll see if I can help out (others here > > would > > > be able to also) > > > > > > http://www.aliak.com/files/hyperlinks-doc.zip > > > > > > cheers > > > kath > > > > > > > > > On 4/4/07, Nick Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <cunas4%40hotmail.com>> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks I will try to reach Andreas... > > > > > > > > I tried working on these tutorials last night: > > > > > > > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/hreftracks.html > > > > > > > > http://www.aliak.com/node/2439 > > > > > > > > and I couldn't get it to work.. Maybe, I'm just not that skilled yet. > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > http://www.aliak.com > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
