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Added December 21, 2011
'Cholesterol'
What is it good for?
SMIL 3 example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows
Ambulant 2.2 on Wine
on PCLinuxOS 2011
Added November 27, 2011
'Merry Christmas'
SMIL 3 example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows
Ambulant 2.2 on Wine
on PCLinuxOS 2011
Added November 13, 2011
'Customize Audio'
state SMIL 3 example
restart Ambulant to
reset state values
Online, Download
Tested on Windows
Ambulant 2.2 on Wine
on PCLinuxOS 2011
Added November 3, 2011
'Media layering'
video under gif and smilText
Online, Download
Tested on Windows
Ambulant 2.2 on Wine
on PCLinuxOS 2011
Edited 'Namibia'
October 28, 2011
removed switch with smilText/text.jpg
KMPlayer 0.11.3 now plays smilText
Congratulations KMPlayer developers :)
Online, Download
Tested on Windows
Ambulant 2.2 on Wine
and KMPlayer 0.11.3
both on PCLinuxOS 2011
Added October 17, 2011
'Namibia'
simple slideshow with audio
Online, Download
Tested on Windows
Ambulant 2.2 on Wine
and KMPlayer 0.11.2c
both on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added October 6, 2011
'Vitamin K2 Benefits'
SMIL 3.0 example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added September 14, 2011
'The Sunshine Vitamin'
SMIL 3.0 example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added August 10, 2011
'Are Carbs the culprit?'
SMIL 3.0 example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added June 24, 2011
'Hunter-Gatherers'
a panZoom
video example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added May 21, 2011
Quick view of the
Healthy 4 Life Dietary Guidelines
from westonaprice.org
healthy4life online or download.
What the USDA and westonaprice.org
define as healthy are
sometimes the opposite.
It's probably due
to the USDA's mission,
"expanding markets for
agricultural products".
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010.
Added May 2, 2011
'Enterocytes'
an animate element
SMIL 3.0 example
Online, Download
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added March 14, 2011
panZoom video example
No prefetching used, video may start later
Added January 22, 2011
'Enuma Elish -> Genesis 1'
related creation stories.
Use mouse over the bottom bar to
open the timeline of contents panel.
TOC makes it easy to navigate thru
the SMIL 3.0 presentation. Online, Download
Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Updated November 23, 2010
Timed Text Markup Language 1.0 Overview
W3C Recommendation November 18, 2010
Congratulations Timed Text Working Group :)
Added November 20, 2010
'Mesopotamia'
Sharing goes way back
SMIL 3.0 example online
No prefetch used if your having problems download
and play locally. Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added November 2, 2010
'Jesus Quotes'
SMIL 3.0 example online
No prefetch if your having problems download
and play locally. Tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on PCLinuxOS 2010
Added September 29, 2010
Thank you Paul Bukhovko
for a Belorussian translation of this homepage
Updated September 20, 2010
Timed Text Markup Language 1.0 Overview
TTML is the new name for DFXP
W3C Proposed Recommendation September 14, 2010
July 22, 2010
Looking for a recent good article on SMIL
Keys to the kingdom of SMIL 3
July 14, 2010
There are some issues with prefetch on Ambulant 2.2
Best way to view the SMIL 3 examples are to
download the zip and play locally. Besides
that's the best way to learn SMIL, change the SMIL code
and see what happens :) The detailed SMIL 3 overview shows
what changes are possible.
Note: smilText in the Linux player is larger than in
the Windows/Wine player. The SMIL 3 examples are tested
on Windows/Wine Ambulant. If your using the Linux player and
the smilText are overlapping or missing, reduce the textFontSize.
Added July 14, 2010
'Gold5000'
Simple SMIL 3 slideshow with audio
download zip
tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on Ubuntu 10.04
Added June 22, 2010
'Tibicos'
SMIL 3.0 example
online, online without prefetching, download
tested on Windows Ambulant 2.2
on Wine on Ubuntu 10.04
Works without prefetching
Added April 17, 2010
SMIL 3.0 State example
'SF 1905'
Use your mouse over the bottom bar to open
a panel with options. Change the music
and text then click restart.
SMIL State remembers the changes.
online, online without prefetching, download
tested on Windows Ambulant 2.0.2
on Wine on Ubuntu 8.04
Updated February 27, 2010
Timed Text Markup Language 1.0 Overview
TTML is the new name for DFXP
W3C Candidate Recommendation, February 23, 2010
Added February 22, 2010
SMIL 3.0 example
'Timeline of Contents'
At the bottom of the presentation use mouse
over on the bottom bar to activate TOC.
This smilFile uses inBoundsEvent, audioFade features.
online, online without prefetching, download
tested on Windows Ambulant 2.0.2
on Wine on Ubuntu 8.04
Comments added February 8, 2010
The SMIL 3.0 examples are tested with Ambulant 2.0.2
date 2009-04-20, Windows version running on Wine, Ubuntu 8.04.
The next version is in beta, give it a try.
Help improve Ambulant by sending your comments.
Added December 11, 2009
SMIL 3.0 example
'Traditional Probiotics'
online, online without prefetching, download
tested on Windows Ambulant 2.0.2
on Wine on Ubuntu 8.04
Previous News
This website is here to provide examples of SMIL. SMIL is an XML language, it's simple and straight forward. In a nutshell what you do is create regions and fill them with media and set the time of playing. SMIL is doing well on phones with MMS and on the large screens with digital signage. On the Web not so much, hopefully with webm video codec and getting the text to appear the same on different platforms that will change.
Best place to start SMIL-ing is to download the detailed overview to see the structure of the language. The overview page helps visualize the relationships between the elements. Next step is to download a SMIL 3 example and then in a text editor make some changes to the SMIL code. The detailed overview shows what changes are possible.
This is the new paradigm for multimedia, the logic of the presentation is in easy to edit text and the media files are reusable objects.
Copy and paste your imagination to the Web via SMIL