On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:59 pm, Rolf Dubitzky wrote: > Hi Jason, > > concerning support for effects, we need to modify VEML a bit. > if you check out the current HEAD of piave, you'll find a file > > examples/textmaster.veml > > This syntax can actually be parsed and rendered by the version in the > 03-DEVEL branch. > It was meant to test the text generator and also as an example for how the > syntax could look like. It is only a video effect (no audio) and only an > effect with one input, but it is probably straight forward to guess what > the whole thing would look like.
I'll take a look on the way to work tommorrow, so expect an answer on what I think tommorrow evening ;-) > I am much in favor of supporting SMIL to pave the road for the kino guys, > but we will still need VEML for a while. Agreed. > One point why I am in favor of doing this is, that this will help to > seperate the _renderer_ from the _player_ parts of piave. This is a good > thing since I eventually would like to drop as many of the player stuff as > possible. There are enough good players out there. I am not so sure... The main advantage with piave being renderer and player is that I assume there is nothing (other than hard drive and cpu speed ;-) ) from 'playing' an unrendered video, or at least, seeking through it on the timeline. Now, playing is not something that I expect - but seeking about an unrendered video is something that I think is very useful. Cheers, Jason -- Jason Wood Homepage : www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
