Ambulant Player is an Open Source player for SMIL 3.0 documents, It is intended primarily for the research community, and not as a replacement for commercial SMIL players such as the RealPlayer or QuickTime, the Ambulant Player does not provide support for the wide range of media encoding formats that such players support.
The AMBULANT Player Project is an attempt at providing a clean, fully open and fully customizable SMIL player that can be used as a common research and development resource. Via AMBULANT, the hope is that various research groups (academic and corporate) will have an incentive to develop new tools, protocols and algorithms in a way that fosters common development and also provides a platform for comparing and verifying each other's work.
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