SMIL 2.0, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, has begun to establish itself as an important new approach for integrating multimedia into Web content. SMIL, which offers XML-based approaches for controlling the timing and presentation of multimedia elements, has begun to attract the support of many large software vendors and toolmakers, making it increasingly accessible for developers. In this article, Anne Zieger provides an overview of SMIL and describes several tools available to make SMIL coding simpler.
For developers outside the
Multimedia is pictures, sounds, music, animations and videos.
Modern web browsers have support for many multimedia formats.
What is Multimedia?
Multimedia is everything you can hear or see: texts, books, pictures, music, sounds, CDs, videos, DVDs, Records, Films, and more.
Multimedia comes in many different formats. On the Internet you will find many of these elements embedded in web pages, and today's web browsers have support for a number of multimedia formats.
In this tutorial you will learn about different multimedia formats and how to
SMIL known as Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is used for time based delivery of multimedia content over web. It is possible to mix different multimedia elements such as text, video, graphics, audio, and vector based animation and synchronizes them to a timeline for delivery. SMIL is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation.
Using SMIL a user can describe the behavior of the presentation, describe the layout of the presentation and associate the media objects in the presentation with hyperlinks. Basically SMIL is a XML document with
DEFINITION - SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), is a language that allows Web site creators to be able to easily define and synchronize multimedia elements (video, sound, still images) for Web presentation and interaction. On today's Web, although you can send moving and still images and sound to a Web user, each element is separate from the others and can't be coordinated with other elements without elaborate programming. SMIL (pronounced "smile") lets site creators send multiple movies, still images, and sound separately but
Background
You should have a working knowledge of HTML in order for this resource to be helpful to you. However, SMIL is very straightforward and easy to understand, so even without HTML experience the functionality, elegance, simplicity, and value of SMIL should be evident.
Purpose
My report provides information about SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language), a recently developed XML-based language used for the implementation of multimedia presentations. SMIL allows for the easy coordination and synchronization of
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