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Mozilla launches video accessibility drive

10-13-2008 01:00 PM
Video and audio support will soon be built directly into Firefox, by way of the free Vorbis and Theora codecs, and Mozilla is using the opportunity to advance multimedia accessibility for hearing-impaired and seeing-impaired users. Although HTML 5 does not officially include Ogg Vorbis and Theora as baseline codecs for the new VIDEO and AUDIO tags, Mozilla has adopted them for its own implementation. Researcher Silvia Pfeiffer is leading a Mozilla Foundation-funded effort to integrate support for closed captioning and other multimedia accessibility features into the Ogg formats and their implementation in Firefox.

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SDL::Video(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SDL::Video(3)

NAME

       SDL::Video - a SDL perl extension

SYNOPSIS

	 $video = new SDL::Video ( -name => 'pr0n.mpg' );

DESCRIPTION

       "SDL::Video" adds support for MPEG video to your SDL Perl application.  Videos are objects bound to surfaces, whose playback is controled
       through the object's interface.

   METHODS
       o   "SDL::Video::error()" returns any error messages associated with playback

       o   "SDL::Video::audio(bool)" enables or disables audio playback, (on by default)

       o   "SDL::Video::video(bool)" enables or disable video playback, (on by default)

       o   "SDL::Video::loop(bool)" enables or disable playback looping (off by default)

       o   "SDL::Video::volume(int)" set the volume as per the mixer volume

       o   "SDL::Video:display(surface)" binds the clip to a display surface

       o   "SDL::Video::scale([x,y]|[surface]|int)" scales the clip by either x,y factors, scales to the image dimensions, or a single scalar.

       o   "SDL::Video::play()" plays the video clip, call "SDL::Video::display()" before playing

       o   "SDL::Video::pause()" pauses video playback

       o   "SDL::Video::stop()" stops video playback

       o   "SDL::Video::rewind()" resets the clip to the beginning

       o   "SDL::Video::seek(offset)" seeks to a particular byte offset

       o   "SDL::Video::skip(time)" skips to a particular time

       o   "SDL::Video::region(rect)" takes a SDL::Rect and defines the display area

       o   "SDL::Video::frame(int)" renders a specific frame to the screen

       o   "SDL::Video::info()" returns a new "SDL::MPEG" object reflecting the current status

       o   "SDL::Video::status()" returns either SMPEG_PLAYING or SMPEG_STOPPED or SMPEG_ERROR

AUTHOR

       David J. Goehrig

SEE ALSO

       perl(1) SDL::Surface(3) SDL::MPEG(3)

perl v5.12.1							    2010-07-05							     SDL::Video(3)

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