SMIL is an XML language for Synchronised Multimedia Integration.
Put at its simplest, its a very basic HTML (really XHTML) with time codes built in. As with any good markup language, all you really need to write it is a text editor (although custom programs for the purpose do exist).
To demonstrate a little of what it can be used for, take a look at
http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/video/barrett/barrett_qt.smil
This URL must be entered into a SMIL player.
correction. The Quicktime SMIL player does not seem to work correctly when the SMIL documents are on line. I had tested largely from a local hard disk to save time. When on line, the first slide loads correctly, but the second and subsequent load as a black image. Unless I have missed something really obvious, I suspect there is a bug in the player. I might add most of the demos on line; eg http://www.empirenet.com/~joseram/universal/universal.html seem to invoke only static images. There are other players at the above site, and I expect they need to be tested! -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (0)20 7594 5774 (Office) +44 (0)20 7594 5804 (Fax) Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College, London, SW7 2AY, UK. http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)