Ambulant: a fast, multi-platform open source SMIL player

  • Authors:
  • Dick C.A. Bulterman;Jack Jansen;Kleanthis Kleanthous;Kees Blom;Daniel Benden

  • Affiliations:
  • CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;CWI: Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the Ambulant Open SMIL player. Unlike other SMIL implementations, the Ambulant Player is a reconfigureable SMIL engine that can be customized for use as an experimental media player core. The Ambulant Player is a reference SMIL engine that can be integrated in a wide variety of media player projects. This paper starts with an overview of our motivations for creating a new SMIL engine, then discusses the architecture of the Ambulant Core (including the scalability and custom integration features of the player). We close with a discussion of our implementation experiences with Ambulant instances for Windows, Mac and Linux versions for desktop and PDA devices.