Larry Bouthillier's SMIL Layouts Tutorial

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The following code and examples accompany the article Layouts in SMIL that appeared on streamingmedia.com on March 30, 2001.

• Listing One Example - SMIL presentation that alternately uses two overlapping regions to display images. Demonstrates region transparency, among other things. smil souce code

 
• Listing Two Example - Embeds the presentation from Listing One in a web page whole, still using RealPlayer and SMIL to control the layout.

 
• Listing Four Example - Embeds a similar presentation in a web page, but uses RealPlayer's ability support for HTML regions to control layout.

 
• Full downloadable source and media in a zip file. Unzip this into a clean directory, and open any of the example files in your browser. All examples should run fine locally with no RealServer needed.