You have already seen an overview of G2/SMIL technology, URls for all the tools you’ll need and a detailed G2/SMIL Tutorial if you have been following our series of articles on SMIL/G2, The first tutorial covered the SMIL language and RealPix and enabled you to get started creating your own SMIL presentations if you were able to follow through. We’ll cover Real Text, and show you how to use it along with RealPix in your SMIL presentations. In this tutorial. we consulted RealNetworks RealText Creation Guide To get started we used the Real
Timed Text refers to the presentation of text media in synchrony with other media, such as audio and video.Typical applications of timed text are the real time subtitling of foreign-language movies on the Web, captioning for people lacking audio devices or having hearing impairments, karaoke, scrolling news items or teleprompter applications.
Timed text for MPEG-4 movies and cellphone media is specified in MPEG-4 Part 17, and is also referred to by RFC 3839.
The W3C is developing a Timed Text (TT) specification that covers many aspects of timed
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is typically used for multimedia presentations that can integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type.
SMIL presentations are described by text files. You can create or edit a SMIL presentation using a text editor, and you can automatically generate a SMIL document using any script language that creates text files. A SMIL document specifies what media elements to present
If you've been following our series of articles on SMIL/G2, you've already seen an overview of G2/SMIL technology, URLs for all the tools you'll need, and a detailed G2/SMIL Tutorial. The first tutorial covered RealPix and the SMIL language, and if you were able to follow through, enabled you to get started creating your own SMIL presentations. In this tutorial, we'll cover RealText, and show you how to use it along with RealPix in your SMIL presentations.
To get started, we consulted RealNetworks RealText Creation Guide. For reference, we used the
This could be an excellent news article for WebAIM if not already one.
And if someone already posted on this topic, sorry. I must have missed it.
Oftent targetted to device dependent players, tools, and applications, I was
hoping that something would start cooking in the interoperable Captions
pathway. It is interesting how many of us may be gearing up against
browsers, authors, companies, tools and others to support guidelines,
standards, and accessibility - yet the accessibility community remains
closed up on a few key fronts with proprietary
The Timed-Text specification should covers all necessary aspects of timed text on the Web. Typical applications of timed text are the real time subtitling of foreign-language movies on the Web, captioning for people lacking audio devices or having hearing impairments, karaoke, scrolling news items or teleprompter applications.
The issue of developing an interoperable timed text format came up during the development of the SMIL 2.0 specification. Today, there are a number of incompatible formats for captioning, subtitling and other forms of timed text
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