frame buffers pro and con

[Janina Sajka]

Just a note that's somewhat important:

SMIL is important to blind people. I say this because it is the basis of
digital talking books as defined by the international DAISY Consortium and
in the NISO process. DAISY is a consortium of libraries for the blind from
around the world. NISO is a standards organization in the U.S. which is
being used by the U.S. National Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Disabled (NLS) to define standards for digital talking books

Before I get asked -- DAISY and NISO are in sync 100 per cent as of this
summer. This means that NISO 3.0 and DAISY 3.0 will be precisely the same,
and are in wrap up mode now. They are 100 per cent based on SMIL 2.0,
which is a W3C specification and is now being voted on.

This means that we should be on the lookout for smile players that work
for us. It also means that we want smile players that can also display,
and synchronize, on screen text--which is part of what a digital talking
book is.

If you want to know more, follow the links in my signature below.
 On Fri,
15 Jun 2001, Geoff Shang wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>
> > neitther you nor I have complete X installations properly confikgured,
> > which may account for the segmentation fault on exit. Dave Mielke does
> > have a working X installation, and he is able to play this stream with a
> > normal exit. The stream is a .smi stream by the way.
>
> The smi bit doesn't mean much.  Smi is short for smil which is a multimedia
> syncronisation language.  It's what the smil document launches that
> matters.  If you hit U while this is playing, you'll hear all the different
> media types being processed.
>
> Geoff.
>
>
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