On Wednesday 10 September 2003 00:08, Jason Wood wrote: > > One point why I am in favor of doing this is, that this will help to > > seperate the _renderer_ from the _player_ parts of piave. This is a good > > thing since I eventually would like to drop as many of the player stuff > > as possible. There are enough good players out there. > > I am not so sure... The main advantage with piave being renderer and player > is that I assume there is nothing (other than hard drive and cpu speed ;-) > ) from 'playing' an unrendered video, or at least, seeking through it on > the timeline. Now, playing is not something that I expect - but seeking > about an unrendered video is something that I think is very useful.
I think the idea is, that you have a SMIL player which is supporting XML namespaces, in particular the PIAVE namespace. If you ask this player to display a certain position in a SMIL file the player will render it. If this involves calls to piave to render certain effects, the player will do so. This is probably far down the road, and I am not even sure it's possible. Cheers, Rolf -- contacts: www.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/~dubitzky
