Introduction
What is SMIL?
- SMIL is an XML application developed by the World Wide Web Consortium that enables the authoring of interactive
multimedia presentations using a text editor.
It is used to create presentations that integrate streaming audio and
video with images, text, or other media types.
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SMIL names text, image, audio, and video multimedia components with URLs and
then schedules their presentation [TM01]. It is
also possible to associate hyperlinks with the components and specify
their layout on a screen [WG98].
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Typical SMIL presentations have the following characteristics [TM01]:
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They are composed of several media components of different types
that are accessible via URLs.
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The start and end times of different components are relative to events
in other components.
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Hyperlinks are embedded in the presentation that the user can follow.