- From: Dave Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:33:19 -0800
- To: Erik Hodge <ehodge@real.com>, Johnb@screen.subtitling.com, public-tt@w3.org
At 16:23 -0800 2/13/03, Erik Hodge wrote: >At 12:47 PM 2/13/2003 -0800, Dave Singer wrote: > >>However, it seems that if we use XML it might be possible to >>construct a document which uses both the SMIL and timed text >>namespaces, and which combines the timed text element definitions >>and the SMIL layup in one XML document. This would have other >>advantages too (it's already a pain the number of >>loads/stream-opens one has to do with SMIL, and it ought to be >>possible to embed the text in the SMIL to avoid yet more for small >>text captions etc.). >>-- >>David Singer >>Apple Computer/QuickTime > >It is possible to embed media using a "data URL". Our SMIL 2.0 >implementation handles these. The format is (roughly): > > src="data:[mime type],[data represented as syntactically-valid URI]". > >and is more precisely defined here: ftp://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2397.txt > >Example: > <ref dur="10s" region="r1" src="data:text/plain,This%20is%20some%20text."/> > >I've seen this used for (small) images, RealText, and plain text, to >avoid the client-server overhead you mentioned. yes, you're right. we do that too. -- David Singer Apple Computer/QuickTime
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