Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (fwd)

[phil cash cash]

Hi Mia, everybody,

I offered a short SMIL workshop to an unsuspecting and patient group of 
tribal folks at the Great Basin Languages conference earlier this fall. 
  The workshop generously failed because it was all about coding, but in 
principle ;-) one could code a movie (.mov, .rm) using only a plain 
text editor, a few media files (.jpeg, .wav, .bmp) and some 
imagination.
the goal here was to allow the student to use a SMIL template as a 
reusable "learning object" and create a set of movies linking various 
media files.  After this experience, I am back to the drawing board, 
but I am piecing together a tutorial that I may/will post to my webpage 
someday and have people test out.

later,
Phil Cash Cash

On Dec 26, 2005, at 11:04 PM, Mia Kalish wrote:

> This is curious, because right now, streaming audio is a proprietary 
> format,
> and not many people have readers. It also has the ugly behavior of 
> loading
> after all the rest of the action has already happened.
>
> I think it's okay to have a language where you can specify 
> simultaneity, but
> making it happen with streaming audio may be a whole 'nother kettle of 
> fish.
>
>
> Mia
>
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> 14 December 2005
> Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
> http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4549
>
> The World Wide Web Consortium has released "Synchronized Multimedia
> Integration Language (SMIL 2.1)" as a W3C Recommendation.
>
> With SMIL (pronounced "smile"), authors create multimedia presentations
> and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and
> text. Version 2.1 features include a new Mobile Profile and an Extended
> Mobile Profile with enhanced timing, layout and animation capabilities.
> "Today, W3C makes good on the promise of first class multimedia
> presentations for the mobile Web," said Chris Lilley (W3C).
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/REC-SMIL2-20051213/
> http://www.w3.org/2005/12/smil-pressrelease.html.en
> http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/
>