- From: Andrew Kirkpatrick <andrew_kirkpatrick@wgbh.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:15:16 -0400
- To: "'Patrick Lauke'" <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk>, <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> One thing that still annoys me is that, although QT > understands SMIL just fine, the player does not associate > itself automatically with the .sml and .smil extensions, > meaning that users with QT need to explicitly open the > player, then force it to open the SMIL file...rather convoluted. This is up to the Windows user to set on their machine, and yes, it is a pain. The best way around this is to create a ref movie using a free app called MakeRefMovie (http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/quicktimeintro/tools/). This creates a QT .mov that has sole purpose -- to tell the QT player to open another file (in this case, a SMIL file). Works every time. > Another way to do it would be to embed a QT object in a web > page and forcing the file to be displayed via Quicktime that > way. (unless this has changed now, haven't looked at the > issue in the last few months, admittedly). Even doing this doesn't necessarily guarantee that Real won't try to commandeer the playback of the file. There is a qtsrc attribute that can be used, but this will make the pages invalid XHTML. AWK
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