[libcmml-dev] new libcmml released

[Silvia.Pfeiffer at csiro.au]

libcmml 0.9.0 Release
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libcmml is a C library that provides a complete programming
interface including functions, data structures, and sloppy or
strict error handling to parse a XML file in CMML. CMML is the
Continuous Media Markup Language defined as part of the Continuous
Media Web project (see http://www.annodex.net/software/libcmml).

This release is available as a source tarball at
http://www.annodex.net/software/libcmml/download/libcmml-0.9.0.tar.gz

New in this release:

	* supports CMML 2.1, which includes
          - link tags in the head tag
          - class and title tags for most major elements
          - basetime as a replacement for timebase (which is deprecated)

        * new API function: cmml_time_new_secs

        * new command line tool: cmml-timeshift

About libcmml
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	* API documentation, with comprehensive examples

	* Developed and tested on GNU/Linux, Darwin/MacOSX and Win32. May
	work on other Unix-like systems via GNU autoconf. For Win32: nmake
	Makefiles, Visual Studio .NET 2003 solution files and Visual C++ 6.0
	workspace files are provided in the source distribution.

	* A simple, callback based open/read/close or open/write/close
	interface to CMML files.


Tools
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The libcmml source distribution comprises the C library libcmml
and the following command-line tools:

    * cmml-validate, which takes as input a CMML file and tests it

    * cmml-fix, which fixes a sloppily written input CMML and creates
      a valid one if possible

    * cmml-fortune, which creates a valid CMML file with random content

    * cmml-timeshift, which reads a CMML files and creates another one
      where all the clip tags are delayed by a time offset in seconds

Full documentation of the libcmml API, customization and installation,
and reading and writing examples can be read online at:

    http://www.annodex.net/software/libcmml/html/


Features
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This version of libcmml supports CMML 2.0.
It has the following features:

 * html-like markup language for audio, video, and other
   time-continuous data files (call them "media files")
 * provides markup to structure an input media file into clips by
   identification of time intervals
 * URI hyperlinking to clips is possible
 * provides structured annotations (meta tags) and unstructed
   annotations (free text) both for the complete media file and each
   clips
 * URI hyperlinks from clips to other Web resources possible
 * URI hyperlinks from clips to representative images (keyframes)
   possible
 * internationalisation (i18n) support for markup
 * multi-track composition directions for media files from several
   input media files possible
 * several tracks of annotations (multi-track annotations) possible
 * arbitrarily high temporal resolution for annotation and media
   tracks
 * non-zero timbase association with media files possible
 * wall-clock time association with media files possible


License
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libcmml is Free Software, available under a BSD style license.

More information is available online at the libannodex homepage:

    http://www.annodex.net/software/libcmml/

enjoy :)

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Silvia Pfeiffer
Research Scientist, Continuous Media Web, CSIRO Australia
http://www.annodex.net/   http://www.ict.csiro.au/cmweb/