Multimedia on the Web
Web Information Systems

Group assignment (2 or 3 people per group)

The goal of this assignment is to give you hands-on experience with using multimedia web technology, in particular SMIL.

Slides from lecture

A pdf file with the slides from the talk can be found at http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda/courses/WIS04/SMILTut.pdf.

Task

Create a presentation in SMIL 2.0 using images from the photo annotation assignment.
Make sure you use all three main SMIL constructs: par, seq and excl; include at least one link to within the same presentation.
You are also encouraged to find relevant material from other sources and/or make your own audio recordings (e.g. language voice-overs in multiple languages).
Make sure the presentation runs in the RealOne player.
Create the same presentation in XHTML+SMIL (or HTML+TIME). Make sure it runs on Microsoft IE 6.

Useful Links

To view the XHTML+SMIL-encoded SMIL tutorial in IE 6.0 (or above) do the following:

  1. Make sure the window content display is active by clicking on it.
  2. Press alt-space to focus on the next link.
  3. Press return to trigger the next link.
  4. By default, the focus stays on the next link. From now on, all you should need to do is press return to go to the next slide. If this stops working, repeat steps 1 and 2.
  5. To return to the first slide, reload the document by pressing F5.
  6. The second sheet has hyperlinks to sheets throughout the presentation. Clicking on these will remove the focus from the next link, so you will need to repeat steps 1 and 2 to go further.

Example SMIL presentations can be found at http://www.cwi.nl/~lynda/WIS04/SMIL/.
Patrick Schmitz's HTML+TIME examples can be found at http://www.ludicrum.org/demos/H+Tdemos.html (use IE 6 to view).
A trial version of the GRiNS authoring environment can be downloaded from the Oratrix web site.

Deliverables

Email the URLs of the working presentations to Lynda.Hardman@cwi.nl. Don't forget to state the names of the people in your group in the email (even better - include them somewhere in the presentation). If you are unable to put the files on a web site that I can access then email two separate zip files (one for IE6 and one for RealOne) each containing all the files you used.