The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) released SMIL 2.1, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, as a W3C Recommendation on December 13, 2005. With SMIL, authors can create interactive multimedia presentations and animations integrating streaming audio and video with graphics and text. Version 2.1 features include a new Mobile Profile and an Extended Mobile Profile with enhanced timing, layout and animation capabilities. The new features are the result of strong coordination between users and the Synchronized Multimedia (SYMM) Working Group. With SMIL 2.1, W3C is well on the way to making multimedia presentations on mobile devices a reality.
"CWI is proud to have contributed to SMIL 2.1," Dick Bulterman - head of the Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures group at CWI - says. "We see the development of the new Mobile and Extended Mobile SMIL profiles as being a tangible answer to the growing need to align media integration with the capabilities of modern mobile delivery platforms. CWI's multi-platform implementation of the new features and profiles of SMIL 2.1 in the Ambulant Player has demonstrated the viability of the new specification."
More information can be found on SEN5's website, W3C's press release (in English), W3C's press release (in Dutch), CWI's Ambulant Player or SMIL's testimonials
