Steve Holzner, another big name in the computing world has written a very informative article that covers many different ways to use XML. This is only one of them:
"XML at Work: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") has been around for quite some time. It's a W3C standard that you can find more about at http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/#SMIL.
SMIL attempts to fix a problem with modern "multimedia" browsers. Usually, such browsers can handle only one aspect of multimedia
My wife is a tenderfoot in the Web development arena. Imagine how surprised I was when, after just earning her certificate in Web design, she sprung this revelation on me: "HTML is going to be replaced by SMIL." I thought, "Who do you think you're talking to, sister?"
I reckon I was most put off because I wasn't sure I knew exactly what SMIL was.
Structured Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is to multimedia developers what HTML is to linked-content developers. I remember reading about SMIL a few years back, but I recall thinking that it
SMIL (pronounced as "smile") – Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is an XML application defined by World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). SMIL 2.0 [1] has just been released as the W3C recommendation on 7th August 2001. The main design goal as stated by W3C is to define an XML-based language that allows you to write interactive multimedia presentations as well as allowing you to reuse the SMIL syntax and semantics in other XML-based languages such as XHTML. SMIL is an XML-based and vendor neutral markup language that allows you to build
Video can be stored in many different formats.
The AVI Format
The AVI (Audio Video Interleave) format was developed by Microsoft.
The AVI format is supported by all computers running Windows, and by all the most popular web browsers. It is a very common format on the Internet, but not always possible to play on non-Windows computers.
Videos stored in the AVI format have the extension .avi.
The Windows Media Format
The Windows Media format is developed by Microsoft.
Windows Media is a common format on the Internet, but Windows Media
When Microsoft rejects a proposed technology standard, it's usually a death knell. But with a recently adopted W3C standard for streaming audio and video files online, Microsoft is snubbing a standard that a majority of multimedia Web developers plan to adopt.
In mid-June, the W3C announced the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) -- a technology built in the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) that enables time-coded synchronization of audio and video clips online -- as a recognized standard.
But shortly before its adoption, Microsoft
Streaming media heavyweight RealNetworks Inc. revealed its support for SMIL Boston, the latest draft of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) standard.
RealNetworks' support means that users of the more than 1 million RealSystem G2 authoring tools and more than 50,000 free RealSystem G2 servers will be able to tap into the benefits of the new draft standard. The World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) SMIL Boston draft standard will enable developers to deliver systems with television-programming-like features as well as the interactivity
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