Playing SMIL files with QuickTime player - problem with REPEAT attribute

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Playing SMIL files with QuickTime player - problem with REPEAT attribute

I am having some difficulty having media repeat from a SMIL file using the repeat attribute. The file repeats fine when using RealPlayer, but won't repeat using QuickTime player. Does QuickTime support the repeat attribute? Or am I stuck using RealPlayer (which I really don't want to use). I have also tried using Ambulent player with no luck.

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Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Feb 19, 2007 11:30 AM

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Answer 1

Feb 19, 2007 12:09 PM in response to vincevetere

Use looping. it's in the menu under View.

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Answer 2

Feb 19, 2007 12:57 PM in response to vincevetere

I don't know enough about SMIL to know whether the "repeat" tag is a feature of SMIL 1 or version 2.
QuickTime only supports version 1 features.
I use Real Player for all of my SMIL files for this reason.

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Feb 19, 2007 4:53 PM in response to David M Brewer

Unfortunately, this won't allow control of individual media elements within the smil file. This will only loop the entire movie once all elements have played to the end.

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Feb 19, 2007 4:55 PM in response to QuickTimeKirk

Thanks for the resonse. I think that unfortunately QuickTime may only support smil 1.0. Any reference I have found on the web only refers to QuickTime 4.1 supporting only 1.0. I can't find any info on more recent versions of QuickTime. And I really don't want to use Real if I can avoid it at all.

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Feb 19, 2007 5:18 PM in response to vincevetere

Yeah.
Really old data about SMIL and QuickTime.
Apple is moving (somewhere) but I couldn't point to any direction.
This is the reason I've "turned off" SMIL in QuickTime Player and use Real for playback of those files I do come across.

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