What is SMIL?
SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integrated Language) is used to mix different media types, such as images, scrolling text, audio, animation and video, into a dynamic presentation which can playback in the player or be embedded into a Web page. SMIL technology allows the media designer to specify multiple regions in a streaming presentation and allocate “bandwidth” to each region. For example, the media designer would allocate low bandwidth (i.e. about 10% of end user’s available bandwidth) for streaming images while allocating more bandwidth to the audio and/or video that was playing in the same presentation at the same time. Web servers are unable to manage SMIL content.
