Hello All,
How feasible would it be to make these video's play in a SVG framework
that uses SVG text for subtitles? Translating those subtitle files would
be really straightforward. Unfortunately, using SMIL is not really an
option for the timing as that isn't supported by MS, so we'd have to
create some js framework for that or maybe Fake smile if that would do the
trick. Doing it in js would still be fairly simple by taking the text and
start and end times from a txt file, but doing more complicated stuff
would be more work in js.
I am not sure if you can overlay SVG content on top of video content as
that would be really neat, but it would be quite nice if it would be used
as an SVG showcase as well. I've seen demo's with animated video content,
so my gut feeling says it should be possible. Using that we could use the
Icon symbols as well being displayed when something is being selected,
follow the mouse pointer in a zoomed area with <use> in a clip and other
sexy stuff, to create some really state of the art tutorials.
The problem would probably be hosting this kind of stuff. There are about
400 Million web users here in China that cannot have a peek at Youtube
without VPN and I am not sure if
Inkscape.org would be up to hosting it if
just 0.001% of those would take a peek at a lazy day, just after lunch. I
wonder though if there is some outfit around that would be interested in
hosting this kind of thing as sponsors.
Apart from that, making such a showcase would also be useful for people
interested in authoring SVG itself and for showing the advantage of using
Inkscape for that.
I could make a proof of concept for that, but considering the amount of
time involved, I'd first like to know what your thoughts are on this idea.
Cheers,
Jelle Mulder