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Acronym |
Full Name |
Purpose |
Description |
Reference |
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JMF |
Java Media Framework |
Enables development of rich media applications and applets. |
Cross platform Application Programming Interface (API) for developing rich media applications, applets and JavaBeans that run on all Java-enabled platforms. The Java Media Framework extends Java's core programming capabilities. |
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MHEG |
Multimedia/Hypertext Expert Group |
Defines multimedia presentations in an object oriented manner |
MHEG defines object-oriented constructs for defining distributed hypermedia presentations. |
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~nd/surprise_96/journal/vol2/srd2/article2.html |
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SMIL |
Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language |
Encodes multimedia presentations on the Web |
W3C format for multimedia presentations on the Web. SMIL is an XML format similar, where applicable, to HTML. SMIL 1.0 describes basic multimedia presentations, including content selection, spatial layout, timing, navigational hyperlinking and adaptation. |