- From: geoff freed <geoff_freed@wgbh.org>
- Date: 20 Dec 1999 13:56:02 -0500
- To: "webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net" <webmaster@dors.sailorsite.net>, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- CC: "'Web Accessibility Initiative'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Hi, Bruce: I am curious to know what CAR file you used as a source, as there are a couple available. Also, there is at least one kludge built into the CAR.SMI file: the textregion contains a negative number: <region id="textregion" top="135" left="-37" height="120" width="250"/> </layout> which is necessary due to a bug in the G2 Player's ability to center text properly. This will definitely screw up a validation report. Can you send me the report? Thanks. FYI, the text file used for the captions is a RealText file, which is proprietary to RealNetworks. That will also not validate properly. Geoff Freed WGBH/NCAM On Monday, December 20, 1999, Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org> wrote: >Bruce, > >you should (as I recall the spec - this is really a SMIL question) have a >type attribute in the video element. And you may find that isn't enough for >Realplayer either - i believe it uses another scheme for addressig streaming >documents, although I don't really know. > >Charles McCN > >On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Bruce Bailey wrote: > > The W3C validator DOES validate SMIL ascii/text files. I am anxious about > how good a job it is doing. I guess it should be great, since SMIL is a > W3C spec. I guess I don't quite understand why the CSS validator is > separate from the main validation service, but SMIL is not. Does it really > test against the SMIL subset DTD specifications, or merely make sure that a > file follows "general" XML specifications? I was most disappointed to > discover that the SMIL files from NCAM for the publicly available "Car" and > "Elevator" do not validate as they are written. > > My most immediately pressing SMIL problem is this: > Can a .smi (ascii/text) file reference (binary/media) files that are > located on a different server? > > I have tried using a BASE REF statement in the HEAD sections which seems to > be ignored. > I have tried an explicit SRC statement like: > <video src="http://38.201.92.250/ramgen/channels/able/car/carsilent.rm" > region="videoregion"/> > But that just gets me an error message, "RealPlayer cannot play this type > of document". > Removing the http:// (and a few other permutations I tried) results in > other equally non-helpful error messages. > > This question may belong in another group, but I need to know so I can > experiment with live captions. > > Bruce Bailey > > > On Monday, December 20, 1999 2:41 AM, Charles McCathieNevile > [SMTP:charles@w3.org] wrote: > > SMIL doesn't provide for timing inside media objects - you can do that by > > breaking them into pieces and using explicit timing (that's what would be > > good to do). The W3C validator should now validate SMIL documents (well, > XML > > in general in theory, and SMIL is XML). > > >-- >Charles McCathieNevile mailto:charles@w3.org phone: +61 409 134 136 >W3C Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI >21 Mitchell Street, Footscray, VIC 3011, Australia (I've >moved!) > > >
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