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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.