Thank you for using RealOne Player! This guide explains RealOne Player clip types, such as RealVideo and RealText, and covers the use of the SMIL 2.0 standard, along with the RealNetworks extensions to SMIL 2.0. Although RealOne Player currently supports most SMIL 2.0 features, some additional features will be added later, and will be made available automatically through RealOne Player's autoupdate feature. The following sections describe known issues with content production in this release of RealOne Player.
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Tip: See Chapter 1 for summaries of new SMIL 2.0 features, as well as for information about additional changes to this guide from Release 8. |
The following sections note significant additions to this guide following its initial publication.
The following sections of this guide have been updated. Most of these features require version 2 of RealOne Player:
<param/>
tags to modify characteristics of plain text files and inline text clips within a SMIL presentation. See "Changing Text Characteristics".<area/>
tag can now include both an href
value to open an external link, and an activateEvent
value to trigger a SMIL element. For example, a SMIL hyperlink can both play a video in the media playback pane and open an HTML page in the related info pane. For more on <area/>
see "Using the <area/> Tag". The section "Defining a Mouse Event" covers activateEvent
.showvideocontrolsoverlay
Ram file parameter. For more information, see "Controlling How a Presentation Initially Displays".You may find discrepancies between the instructions in this guide and RealOne Player performance. Known issues include the following:
<area/>
tag's nohref
attribute, described in "Leaving Out a URL Reference for Hot Spots", does not function.The following aspects of RealOne Player functionality have not yet been documented, and in most cases are not fully functional:
min
and max
timing attributes. The section "Setting Minimum and Maximum Times" is a placeholder for this information.skip-content
attribute.<metadata>
tag.There are two issues currently associated with using Netscape Navigator 6:
.rpm
file cannot contain spaces or even escape codes for spaces (%20
). This causes Navigator 6 to search for a missing plug-in.samples
folder. You can also use Navigator 4.7 or Microsoft Internet Explorer (version 5.5 or later recommended) to browse the guide.![]() |
Note: This linking problem affects only local, relative URLs to clips played in RealOne Player. It does not affect streamed presentations in which the viewer launches the presentation from a Web page rendered in Navigator 6. |
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For More Information: The section "How to Download This Guide to Your Computer" explains how to get a local copy of the HTML guide that includes sample files. |
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