[Advocacy] Xiph Media + SMIL + SMILtext

[Jose Ramirez]

Hello Folks,

There hasn't been much discussion about SMIL and Xiph media. I'd like to 
say that the W3C Synchronized Multimedia (SYMM) Working Group has 
started SMIL 3.0 and so far it has included a text media 'SMILtext'. 
Which is a subset of W3C's 'Timed Text'. It will probably take a while 
before all the dust is settled and there
are working implementations. The thing to consider is for the first time 
it will be possible to create multimedia content with all the parts 
being non-proprietary
Vorbis/Flac audio, Theora/Dirac video, jpeg/gif images, SMILtext and SMIL

I equate that first presentation with the first webpage, it will be 
unencumbered multimedia to do what you want with it, there could be new 
amazons and googles, you never know.

A little background, here is an overview of  the SMIL 3.0 Working Draft:
http://www.multimedia4everyone.com/smil30/index.htm

An example of a  Vorbis + SMIL  presentation, it needs the xiph plugin 
for RealPlayer:
http://www.multimedia4everyone.com/mia_chia/mia_chia.zip
https://helixcommunity.org/projects/xiph/

Cheers, and Thanks to those who contributed,
Jose Ramirez

"Free your Media, Xiph it."
I'd like to see that on a t-shirt :)