FLASH: Slideshows: SMIL v. Flash

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Flashers,


I have a client for whom we will be taking several live presentations, (some 

with slides, some with PowerPoint presentations) to the web either via simple 

SMIL presentations or Flash. The client is requesting nothing more than still 

graphics, an audio stream (voice-over of the presentation), an indexing links 

to about 6 different points in each lecture. 


The client has had another contractor do some trials in SMIL - it seemed 

there were some cross platform issues with the indexing, but I haven't had 

the opportunity to see what kind of browser sniffing they were doing, etc. 


I Like SMIL, I like Flash. The beauty of SMIL in this case is that some of 

the presentations could be automagically converted via RealSlideshow. While 

production time is a small issue, the greater issue is quality of final 

product.


Given that the lengths of these shows would be about 20 minutes, do you think 

streaming the audio from Flash may be a better, and safer cross platform 

option for slideshows than SMIL?


Thoughts appreciated,

Stace


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