RealText is the new text format developed by Real Networks. Rule will discuss other media types such as RealPix, RealVideo and RealAudio in later articles. Its ironic that one of the most innovative new uses of text on the web comes from the company that popularized video delivery over the Internet. When it comes to bandwidth, text is cheap compared to video or graphics.
Text is the original medium of the Internet and is an integral part of all web pages.
RealText is a new format for displaying and controlling text in the Real G2 Player. RealText is a well written spec making it easy to further illustrate video and graphics with synchronized text. Creating a presentation with SMIL for delivery over 28.8 modems is an ambitious undertaking. Even using RealPix , graphics take up large parts of multimedia presentation. In cases like this with very limited bandwidth RealText can be invaluable in providing additional information while adding only minor overhead to the bandwidth.