I'd place my bet on SVG for the near future...iPhone anyone? On 4/10/07, Steve Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 <videoblogging%40yahoogroups.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] > > > > >
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