SMIL

SMIL

Abstract:

This seminar provides an introduction to a language SMIL
(Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language).The World Wide Web
Consortium’s (W3C) SMIL format for encoding multimedia presentations for
delivery over the web is a little known but widely used standard.The seminar
discusses the features and benefits of SMIL language over other formats.
This seminar also focusses on some of the SMIL’s basic concepts and
structure .

The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL,
pronounced "smile") enables simple authoring of interactive audiovisual
presentations. SMIL is typically used for multimedia presentations which
integrate streaming audio and video with images, text or any other media
type. It is created specifically to solve the problems of coordinating the display
of variety of media on the websites.

Hence, In the first phase of the Web, the W3C gave us HTML,
which allows one to express an idea like a magazine and newspaper can with
text, images. Now with W3C's SMIL we can synchronize the text, images,
audio and video in a document and make it viewable around the world. This is
an evolution in communication, a simple to use, yet as powerful medium.

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