Re: Require syntax for Media marker "Clip-Begin" for SMIL 2.0/3.0

Jack Jansen <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:09:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.smil
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Your problem is implementation, not standardisation.

The construct you use is correct according to the SMIL 3.0 spec. But: I =
know of no SMIL players that actually implement the=20
clipBegin=3D"marker=3D#foo" functionality. In addition, the SMIL spec is =
vague (and intentionally so) as to what the external
representation of markers is.

Ambulant has some minimal support for markers, but (a) only for markers =
defined in SmilText files, and (b) only for used
in event-based timing.

Adding support to Ambulant for markers in the way you sketch shouldn't =
be too hard: the infrastructure is all in place.
But: we (the CWI ambulant team) don't have the time for this, and no =
compelling use case right now that will let us
make time. But if you have the developer capabilities yourself we are =
(as always) more than willing to help.

On 28 jun 2010, at 10:27, Datta321 wrote:

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>=20
> I am facing some problem while trying to read a "media" file with =
"markers"
> using Ambulant player. Please see the smil file below.
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> It so happens, that the 1st .mp4 file, namely "Gorill2.mp4" plays =
well, in
> Ambulant player 2.0.2 using clipBegin element with absolute time. =
However,
> the Ambulant player complains of "Cannot parse clipBegin" and "Cannot =
parse
> clipEnd" when it tries to read Movie2.flv, which is a .mp4 file with =
cue
> points "Begin" and "End" in a separate file, namely "movie2.txt", the
> contents of which are listed below the smil file.
> The movie2.flv is created unsing Flash 8 encoder.
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> Am I going wrong in somewhere ? Also, is there an alternative way of
> marking cue points to a .mp4 file, to be read from a SMIL file ?=20
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> <smil xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/ns/SMIL" version=3D"3.0"
> baseProfile=3D"Language">
> <body>
>    <par>   =20
>      <video src=3D"Gorill2.mp4" clipBegin=3D"npt=3D4s" =
clipEnd=3D"npt=3D8s"/>
> <!--
>   <video src=3D"Movie2.flv" clipBegin=3D"marker=3Dmovie2.txt#Begin"
> clipEnd=3D"marker=3Dmovie2.txt#End"/>	    	     -->
>    </par>
> </body>
> </smil>
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> =
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D
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> movie2.txt
> -----------
> Begin=3D34&End=3D24
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> =
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D
> --=20
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If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma =
Goldman