VLC and smil

[Guest]

hello,

vlc will support smil in near futur or not?
maybe it can't be? why?
Smil is very important for accessibility of video media on the web and i don't want to have to watch a video with wmp or realplayer to see the subtitle

goetsu

[dionoea]

it doesn't support it yet and supporting it would need loads of code. Feel free to submit a patch

[gborzi]

hello
just wondering if VLC offers or will offer a simple alternative to SMIL, such as scripting.
With scripting I mean to encode some information in the stream to drive events on the client, such as pushing html pages in a browser at the right time and the like.
This is crucial for use in elearning for sincronisation between a master stream and other streams or animations images etc.
I looked in the help and forum but I have I was not able to find the answer.

Thank you for any hint

[The DJ]

Not in the forseable future. it would be highly platform depandent and therefore difficult to implement, and worse, it would be a security nightmare...

[gborzi]

I get your point about the security issues.
Maybe a subset of the SMIL should work.

[gborzi]

Sorry if I bump this topic: hope this is fair for netiquette.
after posting I carried over some research and tried the Ambulant Player, http://www.ambulantplayer.org, which is a SMIL 2.0 player, open source.

Instead of adding SMIL capabilities to VLC, that's probably a nonsense, maybe it should be more "simple" to add streaming capabilites to Ambulant, for example adding VLC as a plugin for the Ambulant Player.

Do you think this:
- is possible from a license point of view (Ambulant is released on a modified GPL) ?
- is technically viable ?
- does make sense ?

Thank you again

Giovanni

[The DJ]

I think it is VERY difficult to do that. Streaming is extremly complex.

[luettmatten]

Sorry for bumping this topic again: hope this is fair for netiquette.

What's about VLC + Ambulant or anyway Ambulant + VLC without Streaming. Its less complicated. Hey a multi codec player with SMIL (and maybe + SVG + ECMA-Script) is a real alternativ to proprietary Flash. VLC (or Ambulant) could be a leader in this technologie. I know there is a need for.

Hoping for respons

Thank you and best regards from Germany
Matti

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

I would love to backup this idea, but I don't know if anyone is working on that.

Moreover, SMIL is very very complex, and it would take a lot of time to implement it. However, we would welcome some code on that.