Introduction to SMIL
SMIL's most vocal proponent is currently Real Networks who have built the SMIL functionality into their Real G2 Player software. The Real player is still currently in beta, though a late 1998 release is expected. The current version of the beta is stable enough to work with. Real has tailored the SMIL language to it's popular media types Real Audio and Real Video. In addition, they have added some new media types Real Pix (graphics), Real Text and Real Flash. All these media types are tied together through SMIL and all are streamed for playback in the

