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Support for Other Media

  We have used images and text media in previous presentations but other media can be introduced within SMIL.

Given the non-standard support for SMIL media support depends on the player implementation. The table below sum-up what can be seen and the corresponding tag:


Media SMIL Tag RealPlayer G2 GRiNS Soja
GIF img OK OK OK
JPEG img OK OK OK
Wav audio OK OK -
.au Audio audio OK OK OK
.auz Audio Zipped audio - - OK
MP3 audio OK - -
Plain text text OK OK OK
Real text textstream OK - -
Real movie video OK - -
AVI video OK OK -
MPEG video OK OK -
MOV video OK - -


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Dave Marshall
10/4/2001