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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 <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 5 jan 2010, at 11:51, Florin Stati wrote:
>
> > Hi, a Happy new year!
> >
> > 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?
>
> Florin,
> SMIL itself is completely free to use any way you want. It is really only
> the language specification.
>
> 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, <[email protected]>, 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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Hey Jack,<div><br></div><div>Do you Ambulant guys do much integrating with =
web based presentation of content? =A0I&#39;ve dug up a variety of flash pl=
ayers who claim to support SMIL (for varying values of &quot;support&quot;)=
, but so far as i understood it, Ambulant is just desktop based, and implem=
ented in C++, which makes it a difficult reference implementation to those =
writing in languages typically used to power the web.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Incidentally, do you know of any other SMIL3 players be=
yond Ambulant?</div><div><br></div><div>For Florin:</div><div><br></div><di=
v>All w3c standards, to my knowledge, are free open standards, intended to =
be stable and freely available for adoption by anyone who needs! =A0The com=
pany i work for has had to implement our own SMIL player, but as i mentione=
d 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=A0<a h=
ref=3D"http://flowplayer.org/">http://flowplayer.org/</a> i believe).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>-Ted<br><br><div class=
=3D"gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Jack Jansen <span dir=3D"l=
tr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt;</s=
pan> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br>
On 5 jan 2010, at 11:51, Florin Stati wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; Hi, a Happy new year!<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; I would like to find out if Synchronized Multimedia Integration Langua=
ge (small portions-excerpts of SMIL code ) may be freely (free of charge) u=
sed by webdesigners on their projects , or they have to buy a license?<br>

<br>
Florin,<br>
SMIL itself is completely free to use any way you want. It is really only t=
he language specification.<br>
<br>
If you want an *implementation* of SMIL there are also various free solutio=
ns. The W3C SMIL homepage, &lt;<a href=3D"http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://www.w3.org/AudioVideo/</a>&gt; lists quite a few, bu=
t let me put in a plug in here for our player: &lt;<a href=3D"http://www.am=
bulantplayer.org" target=3D"_blank">http://www.ambulantplayer.org</a>&gt;.<=
br>

<font color=3D"#888888">--<br>
Jack Jansen, &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</=
a>&gt;, <a href=3D"http://www.cwi.nl/~jack" target=3D"_blank">http://www.cw=
i.nl/~jack</a><br>
If I can&#39;t dance I don&#39;t want to be part of your revolution -- Emma=
 Goldman<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
</font></blockquote></div><br></div>

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