Re: Can Smile files launch web pages?

At 05:30 PM 10/1/01 +0000, John Aspinall wrote:
>I want to synchronise a .rm presentation with some presentation slides.  I 
>have converted the video presentation into an .rm file and have a set of 
>.htm pages with a .jpg embedded in each.

You've got a couple of options here:

1.  Ditch the .htm, and have a SMIL file that references the .jpg files 
directly
<par>
   <video src="foo.rm"/>
   <seq>
     <img src="foo1.jpg" dur="65s"/>
     <img src="foo2.jpg" dur="75s"/>
     <img src="foo3.jpg" dur="60s"/>
     <img src="foo4.jpg" dur="55s"/>
   </seq>
</par>

2.  With SMIL 2.0, you can use SMIL to synchronize the audio/video with 
HTML pages in a unified presentation:

<par>
   <video src="foo.rm"/>
   <a href="foo1.html" accuate="onLoad" begin="0s"/>
   <a href="foo2.html" accuate="onLoad" begin="65s"/>
   <a href="foo3.html" accuate="onLoad" begin="140s"/>
   <a href="foo4.html" accuate="onLoad" begin="200s"/>
</par>

(see http://www.realnetworks.com for details on the RealOne player, which 
supports SMIL 2.0)

>I basically want the slides (.htm pages) to load into my browser at 
>certain appropraite time points so it is synchronised with my video 
>file.  Ive read that this cannot be done, does anyone know a way around this?
>
>Thanks....John
>
>"This version of RealPlayer (G2) can't reference JPEGs, GIFs, or HTML 
>files directly from the SMIL file, although that capability could be added 
>later using RealPlayer's plug-in architecture"

This is from some pretty old documentation.  RealPlayer 7 and beyond can 
support direct referencing of JPEGs and GIFs, and can use the indirect 
mechanism for HTML described above.

Rob

Received on Monday, 1 October 2001 13:12:26 UTC