Continuous Media Markup Language (CMML) is to audio or video what

HTML The HyperText Markup Language or HTML is the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaSc ...

is to text. CMML is essentially a timed text

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. It allows file creators to structure a time-continuously sampled data file by dividing it into temporal sections (also called clips), and provides these clips with some additional information. This information is HTML-like and is essentially a textual representation of the audio or video file. CMML enables textual searches on these otherwise binary files. CMML is appropriate for use with all

Ogg Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation. The authors of the Ogg format state that it is unrestricted by software patents and is designed to provide for efficient streaming and manipulation of high-quality di ...

media formats, to provide subtitles and timed metadata. CMML is deprecated; Xiph.Org Foundation recommends us
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instead.

Example of CMML Content

Hidden Galaxies Related video on detection of galaxies

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References

External links

CMML Overview
* The origin of the CMML document, along with further documentation and standards can be found a

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