MHEG-5/SMIL: um ambiente de integração entre os padrões

Abstract

This work presents an integration environment between the standards MHEG-5 and SMIL. The MHEG-5 standard defines the syntax and the semantics of a group of objects which can be used for interoperability of multimedia applications among platforms with minimal resources. On the other hand, the SMIL standard provides synchronized media in the Web documents. In order to integrate the two standards two translators were developed. With this integration the multimedia applications can be presented either in a Web environment, using SMIL, or in authoring tools following the MHEG-5 standard. A rule database was developed to carry out the translations; which has as an objective to store the translating rules between the standards allowing for dynamism in the translation process. As a test database for the translations a Multimedia Object Server multimedia database was used in the AMOM project, where a connection module was developed between these database an the Web environment. This work has also involved the proposal of an environment which integrates the SOMm and the Web, whose title is MAW (Multimedia Application WebBuilder).