Design of a Dynamic SMIL player

Author

Pihkala, Kari ; Vuorimaa, Petri

Author_Institution

Telecommun. Software & Multimedia Lab., Helsinki Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

189

Abstract

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) 2.0 has a support for user interactions with its declarative event timing and temporal hyperlinking model. However, complex Web applications require more control over multimedia presentations. This is achieved with a support for a scripting language. The result is Dynamic SMIL, a combination of SMIL and a scripting language. We present the design and implementation of a player for Dynamic SMIL. It consists of a SMIL 2.0 player and a facility to run scripts with the help of XML Events. The SMIL player is also integrated into an XML browser, X-Smiles, thus enabling playing SMIL with XForms, XSL FO, SVG, and XHTML.

Keywords

Internet; hypermedia markup languages; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; online front-ends; Dynamic SMIL player; SMIL 2.0; Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language; W3C; WWW; World Wide Web Consortium; X-Smiles browser; XHTML; XML Events; declarative event timing; multimedia; scripting language; temporal hyperlinking; user interactions; Application software; Java; Laboratories; Personal digital assistants; Telecommunication control; Timing; Transformer cores; Web sites; World Wide Web; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2002. ICME '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7304-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2002.1035545

Filename

1035545