Multimedia Applications based on SMIL


Dr. Philipp Hoschka
W3C/INRIA/MIT

March 2001, Hanover

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SMIL History

Synchronized Multimedia WG

  1. CWI
  2. Ericsson
  3. IBM
  4. Intel
  5. Macromedia
  6. Microsoft
  7. NIST
  8. Nokia
  9. Oratrix
  10. Philips
  11. Panasonic
  12. RealNetworks

Scenario: TV News Broadcast

Two scenes in a TV Newscast

Split into Components

One scene of TV newscast split into components

Component Synchronization

Synchronisation Schedule of TVNews presentation components

SMIL Sequential Composition

Seqence of two audio objects

<seq>
  <audio src="http://www.example.com/joe-audio"/>
  <audio src="http://www2.example.com/tim-audio"/>
</seq>

SMIL Parallel Composition

Video and text in parallel

<par>
  <video src="../joe-video"/>
  <text src="../joe-text"/>
</par> 

Layout

<layout>
  <region id="foo" top="50" left="50 />
</layout>
...
<video region="foo" src="joe-video" />
...

Links/Interactivity

Content Adaptation

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