Ian,
SMIL
A while ago I came across SMIL, an acronym for Synchronized Multimedia
Integration Language (and pronounced "smile"), I don't know what state it's
in, the main runners were Real Networks but there is a W3C Working Draft
from 1999 at
http://www.w3.org/1999/08/smil-pressrelease
At the time, the demo's I saw did the synching of text and audio/video that
you are looking for. Real Networks have a guide to creating presentations at
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smil.htm#46
604
There is a quick ref at
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smilref.htm
#997503
I think it means running your own own Real server but I don't think thats
too difficult
HTML+Time
I think this may only be suported by Internet Explorer?
Microsoft have extensive help/reference/examples at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dntime/html
/htmltime.asp
>From W3.org http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-HTMLplusTIME
Timed Interactive Multimedia Extensions (TIME)
A set of extensions are described to add additional timing, interaction and
media delivery capabilities to HTML. These are modeled closely along the
lines of SMIL, and attempt to reuse terminology wherever feasible. The
timing and interaction support augment current script support for timers and
DHTML.
Using the timing extensions, any HTML element can be set to appear at a
given time, to last for a specified duration, and to repeat (i.e. loop).
Simple timing is supported with a very simple syntax, but more complex
timing constructs can also be described. Interactive timing is supported.
The first section of this document describes how the timing support is
designed, and how script writers use the timing extensions.
In order to easily integrate time-based media (movies, audio and animation
content), a set of new media tags are introduced (again, based upon the SMIL
1.0 specification), and the associated integration with the timing model is
documented.
Additional tags are described to support fine-grained control of
synchronization and media-loading behavior. Also, the notion of temporal
hyperlinks presented in SMIL is generalized to apply to HTML in general.
Hope this helps?
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Subject: sound clips/text
Hampshire Museums Service is hoping to use short text sound clips (max 30
secs)on our website. We need to ensure accessibility, so need accompanying
text. Has anyone experience of using software that will play sound files
which can synchronised to scrolling text?
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