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Re: Playing SMIL files?

Subject: Re: Playing SMIL files?
From: Francesco Schiavon <email@hidden>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 20:01:37 -0800

On 11/21/00 13:27 Emil Sit wrote:

>I was just playing with the Darwin PR 3 and trying to see if it
>would serve SMIL files. I placed a simple SMIL file (e.g.
>"<smil><body><video src="sample.mov"/></body></smil>") in
>/usr/local/movies, along with sample.mov. Then I tried to load
>it up in QuickTime for Windows (latest update), and I get
>back "415 Unsupported Media Type".
>
>Does DSS support SMIL? How should it be served?

In general you don't want to stream SMIL, but with SMIL you may want to 
call an RTSP stream in your presentation.  The SMIL would be downloaded 
through HTTP, and then the client would request the RTSP when ever the 
SMIL tell it to.

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francesco schiavon

vancouver film school - new media
multimedia.edu
vfs.com

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