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The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced
"smile")
enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual presentations. SMIL is
typically used for "rich media"/multimedia presentations which integrate
streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media type. SMIL
is an
easy-to-learn HTML-like language, and many SMIL presentations are written
using
a simple text-editor.
For a more detailed description of the goals of the SMIL language, see the W3C
Activity Statement on Synchronized
Multimedia; a regularly updated report to W3C members that is also
available to
the public.
The public is invited to send comments and information requests about
SMIL
to the public mailing list www-smil@w3.org
(public
archives).
The SYMM WG is closed since 01 April 2012.
You may find related topics in the following Working Groups:
Following the closure of the SYMM WG, the current Synchronized Multimedia
Home page is not maintained anymore. If you encounter broken links, these
are
du change of URI by the publisher without convinient forward to the new
URI.
- The SYMM WG is closed since 01
April 2012.
-
01 December 2008: The SYMM Working Group has
published the SMIL
3.0 Recommendation.
- 01 December 2008: The SMIL 3.0 compliant AMBULANT
2.0 was released. AMBULANT supports all of the new functionality
in SMIL 3. (Demos are included.)
- 01 December 2008: The CWI AMBULANT group has
published a set of browser-based authoring and rendering tools for
smilText and SMIL 3.0 PanZoom functionality. Please see: the
AMBULANT technology demonstrators page.
- 28 November 2008: Springer-Verlag has published the
book SMIL 3.0: Interactive
Multimedia for the Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books.
The book was written by Dick Bulterman (co-chair of the W3C SYMM Working
Group) and Lloyd Rutledge.
- 10 January 2008: The SYMM Working Group has published
the Timesheets
1.0, an XML timing language that makes SMIL 3.0 element and
attribute timing control available to a wide range of other XML
languages.
Past news ...
- Latest SMIL 3 version: (The latest version of the SMIL 3.x
specification,whatever its maturity). http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL3/
- Latest SMIL 2 version: (The latest version of the SMIL 2.x
specification,whatever its maturity). http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL2/
- Latest SMIL Recommendation: (The most mature SMIL Recommendation
(whatever the major revision number). http://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL/
SMIL 3.0
SMIL 2.1
SMIL 2.0
SMIL 1.0
SMIL in MMS
The following media formats (registered and non-registered mime types)
are
supported in the following implementations (to be updated)
- AMBULANT player
- GRiNS for SMIL-2.0
- X-SMILES
- QuickTime
- Realplayer
Tutorials
The public is invited to send comments and information requests about
SMIL
to the public mailing list www-smil@w3.org
(public archives).
The
list is open to everyone. To subscribe, try quick
subscribe. If
that does not work, send a mail with "Subject: subscribe" to www-smil-request@w3.org.
If you have problems subscribing/unsubscribing, see more
info on W3C mailing list
administration.
- The SMIL 3.0 compliant AMBULANT
2.0 supports all of the new functionality in SMIL 3. The AMBULANT
SMIL 3.0 player is available for Linux, OS X, Windows desktop, Windows
TabletPC and Windows PocketPC implementations.
- AMBULANT player from CWI, with
full support for SMIL
2.1. The Player supports the SMIL 2.1 Mobile, Extended Mobile and
Language profiles. The AMBULANT SMIL 2.1 player is available for Linux,
OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC
implementations.
- RealNetworks' SMIL implementation RealPlayer
v11, project in the Helix
open-source community . See Quick
Start guide to download and build the code.
- AMBULANT player from CWI, with
full support for SMIL
2.0 [Second Edition]. The Player supports the SMIL 2.0 Language
and Basic profiles. The AMBULANT SMIL 2.0 player is available for Linux,
OS X, Windows desktop, Windows TabletPC and Windows PocketPC
implementations.
- GRiNS for SMIL-2.0
by Oratrix provides a SMIL 2.0 player which supports SMIL 2.0 syntax and
semantics.
- RealNetworks' SMIL implementation is now public under the datatypes
project in the Helix
open-source community. See Quick
Start guide to download and build the code.
- SMIL Player by
InterObject. The player supports SMIL 2.0 Basic Profile.The player
runs on PC with Windows NT/2000/XP and handheld devices with Pocket PC,
such as Compaq iPAQ. Refer to product
specifications
- Internet
Explorer 6.0 by Microsoft includes implementation of XHTML+SMIL
Profile Working Draft
- Internet
Explorer 5.5 by Microsoft supports many of the SMIL 2.0 draft
modules including Timing and Synchronization, BasicAnimation,
SplineAnimation, BasicMedia, MediaClipping, and BasicContentControl. See
an introductory article about SMIL 2.0 support (called HTML+TIME
2.0) in IE 5.5.
- NetFront
v3.0 is a micro browser for PDA/mobile phone/information
appliances. It claims to support HTML 4.01/XHTML 1.0/ SMIL Basic/SVG
Tiny.
- Pocket SMIL,
it is written in C++.
- RubiC is developed by Roxia
Co.,Ltd. It includes an authoring tool and player, and fully supports
SMIL 2.0 specification. "RubiC" is also available for mobile handset for
mobile internet MMS(Multimedia Messaging Service)
- List of MMS
Simulators
- Tao's announced Qi
browser supports SMIL, HTML 4.01 CSS, and XML (including XML
Parser, DTD and Schema validation).
- Microsoft's
Windows Media Services ; Server-side Playlist : A server-side
playlist script based on the SMIL 2.0 syntax.
- Authoring and rendering tools for smilText and SMIL 3.0 PanZoom
functionality: the
AMBULANT technology demonstrators page.
- Ezer by SMIL Media
- Fluition by
Confluent Technologies
- Grins by Oratrix
- GoLive6
by Adobe
- Hi-Caption,
a captioning tool by Hisoftware
- HomeSite
by Allaire
- JM-Mobile Editor for mobiles
using SMIL and J2ME technologies.
- Kino: a non-linear DV editor for
GNU/Linux. It features integration with IEEE-1394 for capture.
- LimSee2 is an
open source SMIL authoring tool, with support for SMIL 1.0 and SMIL 2.0.
- MAGpie , a
captioning tool by WGBH
- MovieBoard,
for e-learning (Japanese only)
- MMS
Simulators list
- Perly SMIL , a SMIL
1.0 Perl module
- ppt2smil
tool is a PowerPoint macro that convert a PowerPoint presentation to a
streaming SMIL presentation with audio and/or video.
- RealSlideshow
Basic by RealNetworks
- SMIL Composer SuperToolz
by HotSausage
- Smibase, a server-installed software
suite
- SMIL Editor
V2.0, by DoCoMo.
- SMILGen by RealNetworks, a
SMIL (and XML) authoring tool designed to ease the process of XML.
- SMIL Scenario
Creator by KDDI
- SMIRK
presentation authoring tool for the production of accessible slide shows
outputting to SMIL 2.0, SMIL 1.0, XHTML + SMIL, HTML 4.01.
- SMOX Pad and SMOX Editor, for
advanced SMIL and HTML+Time development.
- SMG for a PDA, a BREW,
a Phone and a PC by Smilmedia
- TAG Editor 2.0 - G2 release
by Digital Renaissance ???
- Tagfree
2000 SMIL Editor
- Toolkit for
MPEG-4 from IBM, creates MPEG-4 binary from content created in
XMT-O (based on the SMIL 2.0 syntax and semantics).
- TransTool
- open source transcription tool
- VeonStudio by Veon
- Validator: SMIL
1.0, SMIL 2.0, SMIL 2.0 Basic and XHTML+SMIL by CWI.
- 3TMAN allows to
easily author the complex multimedia projects and then can export the
multimedia projects to the Html+time and/or SMIL formats
Thierry Michel (tmichel@w3.org),
W3C activity lead for the W3C
Multimedia Activity
$Date: 2016/10/06 08:02:16 $ by $Author tmichel $
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