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Hey Jack,

Do you Ambulant guys do much integrating with web based presentation of
content?  I've dug up a variety of flash players who claim to support SMIL
(for varying values of "support"), but so far as i understood it, Ambulant
is just desktop based, and implemented in C++, which makes it a difficult
reference implementation to those writing in languages typically used to
power the web.

Incidentally, do you know of any other SMIL3 players beyond Ambulant?

For Florin:

All w3c standards, to my knowledge, are free open standards, intended to be
stable and freely available for adoption by anyone who needs!  The company i
work for has had to implement our own SMIL player, but as i mentioned there
are flash players out on the web, some open source, which do claim to
support SMIL (for instance there is a rudimentary SMIL plugin for
http://flowplayer.org/ i believe).

Cheers,

-Ted

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl> wrote:

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> On 5 jan 2010, at 11:51, Florin Stati wrote:
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> > Hi, a Happy new year!
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> > I would like to find out if Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
> (small portions-excerpts of SMIL code ) may be freely (free of charge) used
> by webdesigners on their projects , or they have to buy a license?
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> Florin,
> SMIL itself is completely free to use any way you want. It is really only
> the language specification.
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> If you want an *implementation* of SMIL there are also various free
> solutions. The W3C SMIL homepage, <http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/> lists
> quite a few, but let me put in a plug in here for our player: <
> http://www.ambulantplayer.org>.
> --
> Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
> If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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