On Tuesday, October 14, 2003, at 08:47 PM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
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> On Tuesday, Oct 14, 2003, at 18:37 Europe/Rome, Andrew Savory wrote:
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>> On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
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>>> that would rock. don't know if there is a SMIL player for linux,
>>> though.
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>> Realplayer8 will (just about) do it. We'd already decided here that
>> we'd
>> re-record David's presentation (with all powerpoint effects and a
>> steinway ;-) and use it as an exemplar of fun with SMIL ...
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> sounds good. question: does "helix code" include support for SMIL?
Don't know.
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>> but I guess if
>> all of us were hacking on all the presentations, it shouldn't take too
>> long....
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> Hmmmm, does anybody know if quicktime can *save* SMIL? [it can read
> it, AFAIK]
If you open a '***.smil' in QuickTime Player, you can 'Save As ...' a
composite '***.mov' (which optionally includes all it's parts in one
file). You /may/ need QuickTimePro to do this. I don't believe this is
reversible.
Side Note:
Unfortunately RealPlayer SMIL and Quicktime SMIL use different
extensions (and associated namespaces) and are therefore incompatible
<grrr!>.
Geeks appear to hate having RealPlayer installed, QuickTime is not
available for Linux.
So maybe the SMIL idea was not that great :)
regards Jeremy
PS. I have sample QT SMILs I made for my students if you want something
to play with.
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