The Use of SMIL: Multimedia Research Currently Applied on a Global Scale

This paper describes the current use of the multimedia standard SMIL. SMIL features that relate to active areas of multimedia research are discussed. SMIL current implementation in existing browsers is described. Examples from the Web of SMIL applications representing different types of multimedia are presented. These discussions together provide an overview of how SMIL currently addresses the needs of multimedia distributed on the Web

Authoring SMIL documents by direct manipulations during presentation

Abstract- This paper presents Smily an authoring environment to write Smil documents. The main feature of Smily is to strongly integrate the presentation view, in which the document is executed, to the editing process. In this view objects can be selected to perform a wide set of editing actions from attributes setting to direct spatial or temporal editions. This way to edit a multimedia document is close to the well-known WYSIWYG paradigm used by usual word-processors. Moreover in order to help the author to specify the temporal organisation of documents, Smily provides her/him with an execution report displayed through a timeline view. This view also contains information which helps the author to understand why such execution occurs.