<smil>
<head>
<meta name="title" content="WDVL Demo" />
<meta name="author" content="jrule@ruleweb.com" />
<meta name="copyright" content="©1998" />
<layout type="text/smil-basic-layout">
<region id="VideoChannel" title="VideoChannel" left="0" top="0" height="120" width="160" background-color="#888888" fit="fill"/>
<region id="PixChannel" title="PixChannel" left="160" top="0" height="120" width="160" background-color="#888888" fit="fill"/>
<region id="TextChannel" title="TextChannel" left="0" top="120" height="50" width="320" background-color="#888888" fit="fill"/>
</layout>
</head>
<body>
<par title="multiplexor">
<video src="wdvl.rm" id="Video" region="VideoChannel" title="Video"/>
<img src="wdvl.rp" id="Headline Pix" region="PixChannel" title="Headline Pix"/>
<text src="wdvl.rt" id="Ticker" region="TextChannel" title="Ticker"/>
</par>
</body>
</smil>
Real Pix Files
You may have been wondering what exactly a RealPix file is. We’ll don’t worry, its really a JPG file that has been specially encoded. The encoding is done using a program called JPEGTRAN, which is available for both Mac and PC. Let’s look at the RealPix file:
<imfl>
<head width="160" height="120" start="0" duration="20" timeformat="dd:hh:mm:ss.xyz" bitrate="12000" url="http://www.wdvl.com"/> <image handle="1" name="headline1.jpg"/>
<image handle="2" name="headline2.jpg"/>
<image handle="3" name="headline3.jpg"/> <wipe type="push" direction="right" start="1" duration="2" target="1"/>
<wipe type="push" direction="right" start="8" duration="2" target="2"/>
<wipe type="push" direction="left" start="13" duration="2" target="3"/>
</imfl>
Real Text
RealText is the easiest of the new media types from Real. The RT file that contains it can be created in any HTML editor. Below is the code for the wdvl.rt file that is used in our example. The file is contained in the <window> and </window>tags. The first decision to make is how the text should be presented. In this case it is presented in a teleprompter style. Other ways the text appears include Generic, ScrollingNews, TickerTape and Marquee. You can also choose the width and height, whether at link is underlined, the duration and whether text wraps at the end of a line.
<window type="teleprompter" height="50" width="320" underline_hyperlinks="false" duration="20" link="#FF8040" wordwrap="false" bgcolor="black">
<font face="Times" color="white" size="1">
<time begin="0"/><b>NEWS:</b> Headline 1
<time begin="8"/><br/><b>NEWS:</b> Headline 2
<time begin="13"/><br/><b>EARTH ALERT:</b> Headline 3
</font>
</window> 