[theora] Theora in SVG+JavaScript?

[S. A. Allen]

Hi,

So far, the only metadata that has been able to be embedded in SVG are  
image formats - PNG, JPG, and GIF (although I stay away from GIF like the  
plague). Other image formats like WMF or TIFF can be embedded but output  
would be at the mercy of the SVG viewer. I've tried many methods to get  
some audio working in SVG but no go so far. The only way--as far as I  
know--to get anything video-like in SVG is to use a series of PNG/JPG  
images and display them in sequence - it's just a shame that audio  
wouldn't be there.

Most open-source browsers are able to read SVG with ease, and Opera  
aswell. Internet Explorer has limited ability to read SVG, although that  
is with IE7. There is an Adobe SVG plugin available to overcome this, but  
Adobe will be dropping support for this in Janurary 2008 -
http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/

On a side note, if embedding a video in SVG is possible, being an XML  
based file format allows only ASCII characters, which means a binary file  
to would need to be converted to Base64 encoding, and that would make the  
file around 4 times its normal size. The only way around this is to find a  
standard way of compressing the file such as "filename.svg.gz" or  
"filename.sgv.zip" or... I'm sure you get the idea.

I've been using SVG for some time now and the only way for things to  
advance in SVG is to make an open-source SVG plugin that supports Theora,  
but I'd try as much as possible to stick with W3C standards which, at the  
moment, only outputs text, vector shapes and raster images.

-Sam


On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 07:03:34 +1000, Rayne Van-Dunem  
<raynenamibia at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I was just reading on Adobe
> Flash<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash>and the components
> which make it up: SWF, ActionScript, and FLV.
>
>> From what I've read, SVG is competing with SWF as the format of vector
> graphics in web design, while ActionScript is an ECMAScript like  
> JavaScript.
> Hence, SVG + Javascript can provide an interactive, animated, open,
> non-proprietary web design paradigm.
>
> However, FLV, in the way that it is usually applied, doesn't have an
> equivalent. It is a video container format that is technically playable  
> on
> its own, but is usually (that is, in the case of Youtube), embedded in an
> SWF+ActionScript file, which is then embedded in an HTML page.
>
> So I've read about Flumotion's Cortado, which embeds Theora streams into  
> web
> pages via a Java applet.
>
> However, would it be possible for Theora to be embedded into  
> SVG+JavaScript,
> then embedded into a web page?
>
> I know that Microsoft is doing the same with their WPF/E thing  
> (Expression
> vector format+JScript .NET+WMV), so I'm just wondering if the same could  
> be
> done with Theora.
>
> Thanks.



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