Adobe started using SMIL a bit a few years ago with their Adobe Media Player. Was good to see it being used in a big project. It usually is behind the scenes on phones (MMS) and some television programming systems.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/mediaplayer/articles/amp_cdk_pt08.html Moving forward, html5 and CSS will suffice. Sull On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Joly MacFie <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Whatever happened to SMIL? :) > > > On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:06 PM, elbowsofdeath > <[email protected]<steve%40dvmachine.com>> > wrote: > > > Just trying to extract the interesting topic of multimedia from the video > > format discussion. > > > > I dont really know whee to start, Ive always been interested in it, > > although as mentioned previously I get a bit lost when I actually try to > > flesh out some vague ideas into something more solid and useful. > > > > We've seen some, albeit fairly limited, attempts from the big video > > services to add stuff to video, in terms of being able to insert links or > > annotation to certain objects shown within a video. But even discounting > the > > tech limitations, Im left not quite sure how useful this stuff usually > is, > > is it worth the effort? Sometimes it really feels like its getting in the > > way, maybe a lot of the time I really just want to consume video in > linear > > fashion and keep interactivity and communication for another part of the > > site. > > > > Looking ahead I wonder how much video might get mixed in with online > gaming > > & 3D. I know that some years ago some people experimented with video in > > Second Life but it seemed a bit like that stuff ended up as a bit of a > fad? > > > > Are all the various ways that people can share different media on the web > > providing a good foundation and all we need is a nicer way of presenting > and > > interacting with this stuff? I still daydream about better ways to mix > > microblogging, photos, video & music & conversations together on the web, > > but actual concrete ideas about how to do this seem to evade me. > > > > Cheers > > > > Steve > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast > WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com > http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com > Secretary - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [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/
