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Whats new in Ambulant 2.0?

April 26, 2017ambulant

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Whats new in Ambulant 2.0?

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Lots of things. The following items have been changed for the Ambulant 2.0.0 release: Full support for SMIL 3.0: inline text through smilText, variables and extended customization through SMIL State, pan and zoom to display partial images or video, transparency, many more. Windows CE support (specifically Windows Mobile 5) has been revived, and is now complete. Audio and video support have been enhanced. All platforms can now render through open source components (ffmpeg, sdl, live555), unifying available media types and access methods across platforms. All platforms support rtsp playback, http playback and all common media formats. Performance should also have increased significantly. Redraw has been optimized, especially on Windows. This should give much smoother presentations. The Firefox plugin (allowing playback of SMIL within web pages) has been revived and for the Mac a Safari plugin is also available. The Safari plugin can be extended in Python, allowing rich interaction betwee