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Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)
A WWW Bibliography

HyperText Markup Language @ W3C

W3C - World Wide Web Consortium

Home Page
http://www.w3.org

HyperText Markup Language

Home Page
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/

HyperText Markup Language Activity Statement

Description of the current state of play regarding developments in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), covering SMIL, HTML, XHTML, XML, Stylesheets (CSS), SVG Graghics and MathML.
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Activity.html

HTML 4.01 Specification

W3C Recommendation 24 December 1999
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/

XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language

"A Reformulation of HTML 4 in XML 1.0 W3C Recommendation 26 January 2000"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/

SMIL @ W3C

W3 Synchronized Multimedia

Home Page, includes developments, tools, players, links and history.
http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) Boston Specification

Current Version: W3C Working Draft 22 June 2000
http://www.w3.org/TR/smil-boston/

Accessibility Features of SMIL

"This document summarizes the accessibility features of the Synchronized Multimedia Language (SMIL), version 1.0"
http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/NOTE-SMIL-access-19990920/

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language Document Object Model

"This specification defines the Document Object Model (DOM) specification for synchronized multimedia functionality."
http://www.w3.org/TR/smil-boston-dom/

W3C Issues First Public Draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)

Press release: 6 November, 1997 -- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today announced the first public working draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL; pronounced "smile").
http://www.w3.org/Press/SMIL

The World Wide Web Consortium Issues SMIL 1.0 as a W3C Recommendation

Press release: 15 June, 1998 -- "Leading the Web to its full potential, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today released the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL; pronounced "smile") specification as a W3C Recommendation, representing cross-industry agreement on a wide range of features for putting multimedia presentations on the Web."
http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/SMIL-REC
Also: Testimonials at http://www.w3.org/Press/1998/SMIL-REC-test

World Wide Web Consortium Issues First Working Draft of SMIL Boston

Press release: 3 August 1999 -- "Leading the Web to its full potential, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) today releases the first public working draft of Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile"), known as SMIL Boston."
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-smil/1999JulSep/0037.html

Microsoft

Closed Captions for Web Multimedia

Microsoft® Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) simplifies captioning for developers, educators, and multimedia producers and designers who will now find it easier to make their work more universally accessible.
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/sami/default.htm

Spice Up Your Web Pages with HTML+TIME by Debbie Newman, Microsoft Corporation May 2000

This article provides an introduction to HTML+TIME in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/behaviors/htmltime.asp

Internet Explorer 5.5 with SMIL-Boston support

From: Pablo Fernicola <pablofe@microsoft.com>

To: "'www-smil@w3.org'" <www-smil@w3.org>

Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:36:00 -0800

Subject: Beta of Internet Explorer 5.5 with SMIL-Boston support is available

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-smil/1999OctDec/0013.html

Demos/Tutorials

The SMIL Tutorial

A tutorial to demonstrate SMIL capabilities using the Java-based SMIL Player nammed SOJA by HELIO . Includes introduction to SMIL and step by step guide.
http://www.helio.org/products/smil/tutorial/chapter1/index.html

The WebDeveloper.com Tutorial: RealSystem G2 & SMIL By Scott Clark

"In this tutorial, we're going to focus on creating presentations with SMIL and RealPix."
http://www.webdeveloper.com/advhtml/advhtml_tutorial_G2SMIL.html

The WebDeveloper.com Tutorial: Realtext and SMIL By Scott Clark

"In this tutorial, we'll cover RealText, and show you how to use it along with RealPix in your SMIL presentations."
http://www.webdeveloper.com/advhtml/advhtml_tutorial_G2_RealText.html

Learn SMIL with a SMIL

A tutorial plus examples and comparisons by 1999 Jose Ramirez.
http://www.empirenet.com/~joseram/

WebDeveloper.com ® Tutorial: SMIL Tools To Get the Job Done By Scott Clark

"Here are the tools you need to put a SMIL on your visitor's faces. By now you've got a pretty good understanding of SMIL, what it can do, and how it is created."
http://www.webdeveloper.com/advhtml/advhtml_tutorial_SMIL_tools.html

Webreview.com - RealSlideshow Plus Simplifies Streaming Media

"RealSlideshow Plus is SMIL-compliant—sort of. The "engine" file seems up to spec, but the audio and image files are both proprietary. In theory you could play a Slideshow Plus on a generic SMIL player, but you wouldn't be able to see any images or hear any audio. Is this an issue? Hard to tell, considering that the RealAudio G2 Player is everywhere."
http://webreview.com/pub/1999/10/08/feature/index2.html

Developer.com: Tech Workshop: Working with SMIL

A short tutorial by John Maxwell Hobbs. "Just how easy is easy? We'll begin with a simple slide show of my trip to the Great Wall of China (example 1). This was done in just 16 lines."
http://developer.earthweb.com/journal/techworkshop/092498_smil1.html

How to Create a Simple Digital Story by Derrick Story

"Even the simplest digital story can move and persuade if done properly. Organization and execution are the keys to success. Chances are you have many of the tools right now that you need to create a simple, but effective digital story."
http://webreview.com/pub/1999/09/24/feature/index3.html and Part Two

SMIL at work by Jeff Rule, March 1999

The SMIL Primer, "This article provides an overview of SMIL." http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/03/12/feature/index.html

The RealSystem Production Guide

"RealSystem gives you the power to stream compelling multimedia presentations over a network. It includes RealServer, the most advanced streaming media server available, along with RealPlayer and RealPlayer Plus, the world's most popular desktop applications for playing streaming media clips. This manual will help you produce your multimedia presentation, whether a simple video on your home page or a multimedia extravaganza."
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/realpgd.htm
This guide includes:
Chapter 6: Assembling a Presentation with SMIL
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smil.htm
SMIL Quick Reference
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smilref.htm
Chapter 7: Extending SMIL
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/production8/htmfiles/smilext.htm

Other Multimedia Projects

Projet Opéra

"This project is interested in electronic documents, such as technical documentation, hypertext, and multimedia. It studies document models that take into account logical structures, graphical presentation and multimedia contents. It also develops editing techniques based on these models. The long-term goal is to design and build an editing environment for developing and maintaining large, complex multimedia documentation."
http://www.inrialpes.fr/opera/

Captioning and Audio Description on the Web

NCAM (CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media) has developed methods to provide captioning and audio descriptions for Web-based multimedia through the use of QuickTime, SMIL and SAMI.
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/captionedmovies.html

SMIL Web Sites and Lists of SMIL Resources

JustSMIL

Part of the Streaming Media World site, JustSMIL is probably one of the most comprehensive sites currently offering a good selection of tutorials, reviews, links and a gallery.
http://smw.internet.com/smil/

Haznet's Fallout Shelter

A 'web designers' site, with a small list of SMIL links under the Fall Out section. Each link is rated with the excellent Geiger Meter.
http://www.hudziak.com/haznet/

The CWI SMIL Page

A page of SMIL links produced by CWI which is the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. Site in english.
http://www.cwi.nl/SMIL/

goSMIL

A Yahoo type directory of Streaming Media related resources provided by PlayStream.
http://www.gosmil.com/

SMIL

A site aiming to provide "information on a variety of aspects related to SMIL" by the Computational Mathematics Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science at Concordia University in Montreal.
http://indy.cs.concordia.ca/smil/

WebDeveloper.com

WebDeveloper.com's SMIL Links and Resources By Scott Clark.
http://www.webdeveloper.com/advhtml/advhtml_smil_links.html

XML.com

XML's Resource Guide section for SMIL. Includes "SMIL specifications, white papers, tools, and software."
http://www.xml.com/pub/Guide/SMIL

Jeff Rule's Dynamic HTML and SMIL Site

Part of Jeff's site with access to some of the articles he has writen for WebReview.com and WDVL.com.
http://www.ruleweb.com/dhtml/smil.html

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL)

Includes background and links.
http://www.inrialpes.fr/opera/people/Nabil.Layaida/smil/smil.html

Yahoo!

Yahoo's directory listing for SMIL: Computers and Internet>Information and Documentation>Data Formats>SMIL
http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Information_and_Documentation/Data_Formats/SMIL/

Open Directory

Open Directory's directory listing for SMIL: Computers: Data Formats: Markup Languages: SMIL
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Data_Formats/Markup_Languages/SMIL/

LookSmart

Directory Listing for SMIL: Computing - Computer Science - Programming - Internet & Scripting - SMIL
http://www.looksmart.com/eus1/eus317831/eus317876/eus53906/eus65717/eus278683/r?l&

SMIL Mail Lists

www-smil@w3.org Mail Archives

The official W3C SMIL mailing list.
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-smil/

SMIL Articles

Moving to the beat by Lloyd Rutledge, 1999

The Web used to stand still. SMIL gives the Web a sense of timing and adaptation.
http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1999/10/058/default.shtml

The moving picture by Jan Ozer, October 1999

The Dark Side vs. the Real World or the Real Outer Limits.
http://www.emediapro.net/EM1999/picture10.html

Toward Synchronized Multimedia on the Web by Philipp Hoschka, Spring 1997

http://www.w3j.com/6/s2.hoschka.html

Introduction to SMIL by Jeff Rule, December 1998

"The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is a recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that allows for the creation of time-based multimedia delivery over the web. Based on XML, it allows developers to mix many types of media, text, video, graphics, audio and vector based animation together and to synchronize them to a timeline."
http://wdvl.internet.com/Authoring/Languages/XML/SMIL/Intro/. Also other Jeff Rule articles dealing with RealVideo, RealText, RealPix and RealAudio.

Making Sites SMIL by Steve McCannell, May 5 2000

http://webreview.com/pub/2000/05/05/features/index01.html

Are You Smiling About SMIL?

Poll Results, May 2000
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/2000/05/05/poll/results.html

SMIL's New Strategy: Modularity by David Sims, Derrick Story, October 1999

"We at Web Review have always been interested in SMIL, partly because it's one of those technologies (like Flash and Animated GIFs) that bridges several of the areas we cover: design, programming, and standards. This week, Kim Brown offers a review of some of the features in the latest working draft of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, SMIL Boston."
http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/10/08/feature/index.html

The Future of SMIL by Kim Brown, October 1999

"The W3C (World Wide Web consortium) sports the following motto: "Release early, release often." It's a sage maxim to follow when changing the development course of a Web standard. The most recent release of SMIL (SMIL Boston) by the W3C Working Group demonstrates why getting a preliminary model out early is so important." http://webreview.com/pub/1999/10/08/feature/index3.html

SMIL - a standard for multimedia (at last!) by Mahesh Shantaram, September 1999

"A very simple language to integrate text, graphics, audio, and video into an online, interactive presentation."
http://www.ciol.com/content/technology/techbytes/99091402.asp

Captioning and Audio Description on the Web

"NCAM has been experimenting with ways to provide captioning and audio descriptions for Web-based multimedia through the use of QuickTime, SMIL and SAMI."
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/captionedmovies.html

Group Makes Strides in Improving Web Access for the Disabled by Brian Hannon, September 1998

XML and Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language are being used to help improve the Web for people with disabilities.
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/bp/news/webnews4.html

Making CD-ROM's Multimedia for all users by Tom Wlodkowski, June 1999

"Advances in computer technology have brought most people as close as a mouse click to a wealth of information. It is no longer necessary to flip through volumes upon volumes of an encyclopedia to access a map of Africa, or to search for information about Babe Ruth."
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/bp/news/cdromnews1.html

An Interview with the W3C's SMIL Guy, Phillip Hoschkaby by D.C. Denison January 9, 1998

"On Nov. 6 1997, the W3C released the first public draft of the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile"), a specification that promises to make it a lot easier for developers to create multimedia content for the Web. Philipp Hoschka is the chair of the W3C Synchronized Multimedia Working Group and the editor of the draft."
http://webreview.com/98/01/09/feature/interview.html

Toward Synchronized Multimedia on the Web by Philipp Hoschka. World Wide Web Journal, Spring 1997

"Web technology is limited today when it comes to creating continuous multimedia presentations. For these applications, content authors need to express things like "five minutes into the presentation, show image X and keep it on the screen for ten seconds." More generally, there must be a way to describe the synchronization between the different media (audio, video, text, and images) that make up a continuous multimedia presentation."
http://www.w3j.com/6/s2.hoschka.html

Synchronizing the Web: Choreographing multimedia makes developers SMIL by Kim Brown January 9, 1997

"In the movie Broadcast News there's a scene where Joan Cusack races through a television station carrying a crucial piece of videotape that needs to be cued up and played at the exact moment newscaster William Hurt begins reporting about the footage. Vaulting over filing cabinet drawers, blowing past coworkers, she sprints for the video player and....TOUCHDOWN! Television viewers tuned into the broadcast get what they expect to see: A seamless, synchronized presentation of audio and video."
http://webreview.com/98/01/09/feature/smil.html

STANDARDS: Time-Based Multimedia Technology Nears Approved Status By Nate Zelnick, Internet World April 13, 1998

"The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced last week that it has moved a technology for building multimedia applications into the final stage before becoming a standard, making it likely that the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL, pronounced "smile") will be a recommendation before summer."
http://www.internetworld.com/print/1998/04/13/news/19980413-multimedia.html

Intraware: Tools: Research: Library: Intraware: Position Paper: SMIL Observed by Esteban Kolsky

"Esteban Kolsky's take on SMIL: what it is, why it is, and where it's going -- not to mention who is going to support it and who says they'll support it but have developed their own standard for multimedia that they will push... (hint -- does this sound like ActiveX revisited?). Also included are examples of SMIL code and links to related information."
http://www.intraware.com/ms/itwr/pospr/SMIL.html

Two Web Video Captioning Technologies From About.com's Deafness/Hard of Hearing section by Jamie Berke.

"Companies, individuals, and organizations that put video on the web have absolutely no excuse for not making their videos accessible to the deaf and hard of hearing. Both Microsoft and Real Networks have developed captioning technologies for use with digital video. "
http://deafness.about.com/health/deafness/library/weekly/aa083198.htm

SMIL Software

RealNetworks

Home of the Real Player streaming media player , SMIL compliant.
http://www.realnetworks.com/

Real Slideshow Plus - SMIL Authoring tool

RealNetworks says; "Simply drag and drop your digital images onto the interface, crop and crunch images, add voice and text narration for each image, add some background music and press "Generate." Then press "Play" to view your creation."
http://www.realnetworks.com/products/slideshowplus/info.html?src=prdctmn_072600b

Also for RealNetworks:

DevZone - The informational resource for web developers and designers
http://www.realnetworks.com/devzone/index.html

SMIL Presentation Wizard User's Guide
http://service.real.com/help/library/guides/smilwiz/smilwiz.htm

QuickTime

Apple's multimedia player and developers tool.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/
Developers information.
http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/
Information on Quicktime and SMIL
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/authoring/qtsmil.html

SMIL at HELIO

HELIO is a French non-profit organization. SOJA is their Java-Based SMIL Player. SOJA stands for SMIL Output in Java Applets. It is able to render SMIL presentations into web pages using HTTP and simple medias.
http://www.helio.org/products/smil/

GRiNS Authoring Software

The GRiNS family of multimedia presentation authoring software offers a full range of tools to build compelling presentations using SMIL, the technology for multimedia on the Internet.
You can use GRiNS to create streaming multimedia presentations containing audio, video, text and images for the over 70,000,000 RealSystem G2 players. Or, you can use GRiNS to make "pure" SMIL presentations containing a wide range of media from interactive HTML to complex animations.
http://www.oratrix.com/GRiNS/

Fluition by Confluent Technologies

"Fluition is a software tool for the layout and sequencing of streaming multimedia presentations. Fluition was designed to be easy to use but offer all of the power and flexibility that SMIL offers. Fluition eliminates the need for manually writing code and allows full multimedia layout and sequencing capabilities in a visual environment. Fluition can make use of a wide range of media file formats making it possible to create very sophisticated productions limited only by the producer's imagination."
http://smilsoftware.com/

SMIL Composer from Sausage Software

"The new SMIL Composer SuperTool allows you to easily create synchronised multimedia content for RealSystem G2. With its easy point and click WYSIWYG layout interface no knowledge of SMIL code (an implementation of XML) is required. You can easily add available media types, arrange their layout and sequence how they are played in your composition. Then it is a one button press to view your SMIL Code or preview your composition in your RealSystem G2 Player."
http://www.sausage.com/supertoolz/toolz/stsmil.html

Media Access Generator (MAGpie)

"Developers of Web- and CD-ROM-based multimedia need an authoring tool for making their materials accessible to persons with disabilities. The CPB/WGBH National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) has developed such a tool, the Media Access Generator (MAGpie). Using MAGpie, authors can add captions to three multimedia formats: Apple's QuickTime, the World Wide Web Consortium's Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) and Microsoft's Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange (SAMI) format. MAGpie can also integrate audio descriptions into SMIL presentations."
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/ncam/webaccess/magindex.html

Dreamweaver Extensions by AHEAD

W3C SMIL 1.0 DTD - this browser profile can be downloaded for Macromedia's Dreamweaver to check your SMIL against the standard.
http://www.thought.co.uk/extensions/browserprofiles.html

Video 123 from WebKapture, Inc.

Streaming Video editor, can output SMIL format
http://www.webkapture.com/video123/home.php3

ExtendMedia’s T.A.G. Composer 2.0

A streaming media tool, SMIL output.
http://tagsoftware.com/

Experimental SMIL syntax validator

Check your SMIL code.
http://www.cwi.nl/~media/symm/validator/

Examples

Info and Comms @ MMU

A guided tour of the Departement of Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University. Created as an SMIL example for the Syncronisation project.
View the Demonstration at http://ww.mmu.ac.uk/h-ss/cerlim/projects/synchro/demo.html - Needs Realplayer http://www.real.com

From Real, three examples on the Realslideshow Plus page, plus their own demonstarations.

http://www.realnetworks.com/products/slideshowplus/info.html?src=prdctmn_072600b

From Electric Ladyland, using the Fluition authoring tool.

http://www.electricleisureland.com/cgi-bin/elland.cgi