[ale] ALE CENTRAL MTG for Thursday, April 16, 2009

[Brian Pitts]

arxion wrote:
> All that's really needed to effectively deliver most presentation
> material is a sequence of static screen shots occasionally changing
> in sync to an audio track, just like the old "film strips" we used
> to get in school (the grey beards should know what I'm talking
> about [BEEP], but maybe not the younger folks. [BEEP]).  Delivering
> something like this would be an extremely low bandwidth issue,
> and having static screens or slides instead of a video stream would
> allow for the data to be delivered in their full, fully readable
> resolution.
> 
> If anybody knows of anything that works like this AND can deliver
> the end result "Film Strip" through a web browser or other fully
> cross platform software mechanism, then please share! (Or maybe
> this isn't such a great approach, so nobody else has pursued it?
> maybe it's too simple and obvious?)

Is this something SMIL can do? My quick reading through the two links
below suggests "yes".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language
http://www.w3schools.com/smil/

All the best,
Brian Pitts