RealOne Player supports SMIL 2.0, which adds many new features to SMIL 1.0. RealOne Player is backwards-compatible with SMIL 1.0, so it can play any existing SMIL presentation. RealPlayer G2, RealPlayer 7, and RealPlayer 8 cannot play SMIL 2.0 presentations. These versions of RealPlayer autoupdate to RealOne Player before playing a SMIL 2.0 file. See Chapter 8 for basic SMIL 2.0 information.

Event-Based Activation - SMIL V2.0 addition

Early work on SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) began back in December 1995, and the SMIL recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil) came out on June 15, 1998. The standard was backed by big companies such as RealNetworks, Apple, Lucent/Bell Labs, Philips, Digital Equipment Corp., and Alcatel.

The SMIL Boston profile describes the SMIL modules that are included and details how this modules are integrated. It contains support for all of the major SMIL Boston features including animation, content control, layout, linking, media object, meta-information, structure, timing and transition effects. It is designed for Web clients that support direct SMIL Boston markup such as standalone multimedia players.

Transitions Example ("style-like")

The XHTML+SMIL profile defines a set of XHTML abstract modules that support a subset of the SMIL 2.0 specification. It includes functionality from SMIL 2.0 modules providing support for animation, content control, media objects, timing and synchronization, and transition effects. The profile also integrates SMIL 2.0 features directly with XHTML and CSS, describing how SMIL can be used to manipulate XHTML and CSS features.

There are a number of technologies evolving that will enhance the ability to efficiently stream geographic visualizations across the Web. The large size of spatial data can easily produce the World Wide Wait for clients receiving information from Internet Map Servers and other online geographic and cartographic activities. In this short discussion, we highlight the concept of streaming, provide a general overview of SMIL, MPEG-4, and RichMedia 3D standards, and present an example of the use of streaming in online planning research.

Below is an example of three timelines running in parallel, yet at different speeds.

Bill Cosby delivers the commencement address at Ohio State University in 2001. These captions are text-based, but are delivered as open captions in that the SMIL file specifies that they will always be displayed.

Click on Prefetch Element in SMIL code to view Tutorial (if the text does not appear, stop and restart).

Animation Example

Overview of SMIL [ppt]

This collection of videos focuses on the exchange of scientific and public health information on global emerging infectious disease issues. The presentations offer video and synchronized powerpoint slides and captions.

Did you know that you can embed events into your streaming video content which will "throw" URLs into your viewers' browser?

This paper describes how the web standards Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are used in teaching at the Vienna University of Technology. SMIL and SVG are used in courses on multimedia authoring.

These are the collected Last call comments on SMIL Animation that were sent to the SMIL mailing list (www-smil@w3.org), and responses to those comments.

In the last chapter we looked at scripting programming paradigms for multimedia. In this chapter we will study Tagging.

This example describes a SMIL 2.0 presentation taken from the Token2000 project, showing the use of semantic annotations embedded in a SMIL document.

This section defines the SMIL Layout Module, which is divided into three levels of increasing functionality. Each level builds on the functionality of the lower levels, and higher levels require lower levels as a prerequisite.

This module introduces new attributes for advanced manipulation of time behavior, such as controlling the speed or rate of time for an element.