( SMIL, pronounced "smile"). The SMIL language is an easy-to-learn HTML-like language. Thus, SMIL presentations can be written using a text-editor. A SMIL presentation can be composed of streaming audio, streaming video, images, text or any other media type.
a markup language under development by the W3C that will allow Web developers to separate the content of multimedia into distinct files and transmission streams such as, text, images, audio, and video. They can then be sent to the users' computer separately, and then reassembled and displayed as intended.
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is a markup language developed by the Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C). It can be used to synchrronize captions and audio descriptions with online video. SMIL is supported by the greatest number of media players, including RealOne and recent versions of QuickTime. Windows Media Player does not support SMIL.
The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL) is written as an XML application and is currently a W3C recommendation. Simply put, it enables authors to specify what should be presented; therefore, enabling them to control the precise time that a sentence is spoken and make it coincide with the display of an image appearing on the screen. The SMIL language has been designed for ease of access for authoring simple presentations with a text editor. The key to success for HTML was that attractive hypertext content could be created without requiring a sophisticated authoring tool. The SMIL language achieves the same goal for synchronized hypermedia. www.w3.org/AudioVideo
An XML-based language being developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that would enable Web developers to divide content into separate streams (audio, video, text, and images), send them to a client computer, and then have them displayed as a single stream. This separation reduces the time required for transmission over the Internet. TCP See definition for: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
SMIL (pronounced or "smile"), the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, is a W3C Recommended XML markup language for describing multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, and media embedding, among other things.
