[LAU] [LAD] Announcing: ecaedl.pl Edit Decision List Capable Audio Playing

[Niels Mayer]

What is the particular advantage of EDL, versus something more standard:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language ??

Mplayer (and thus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-Multimedia_Player ,
smplayer, and gnome-mplayer) supports SMIL although the support is
rudimentary. SMIL and other means of setting clips&playlists is
available in the flash-based 'jwplayer' http://www.longtailvideo.com
"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported" ( in action:
http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Macros/JWPlayerJSPL_Test and
http://nielsmayer.com/xwiki/bin/view/Exhibit/NPRpods3 (work in progress) ).

The other issue w/ doing it "in the player" is how well do the given
players handle a playlist. Most of them, even if accessing the same
media in different cue-locations, do not do a very good job with going
through "clips" with seamless transitions between the clips. However,
it's readily possible , with a bit of pre-buffering and pre-fetching
that allows seamless synchronized playback .... just a small matter of
programming... (i waste way too much time abusing my own software for
unintended purpose -- "internet sampler and looper"
--http://nielsmayer.com/ts-episode-timeline.png  )

Niels
http://nielsmayer.com