- From: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>
- Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 10:12:57 -0700
- To: "John Aspinall" <john.aspinall@db.com>, www-smil@w3.org
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