SYSTEM, METHOD AND ENGINE FOR PLAYING SMIL BASED MULTIMEDIA CONTENTS

摘要

A system for playing SMIL based multimedia contents, comprising: a plurality of SMIL engines (201) for analyzing and interpereting SMIL documents, as well as communicatin with and controling SMIL sub engines (201), remote media proxies (202) , or local media playing devices; a plurality of remote media proxies (202) for receiving instructions from the upper level SMIL engines, starting or stopping providing media objects to the remote media playing devices, sending back events, and providing basic user interaction capabilities, wherein said a plurality os SMIL engines, a plurality of remote media proxies, and local and remote media playing devices contruct a tree-link structure, of which the root node is a SMIL engine, the branch nodes are SMIL engines and remote media proxies, and the leaf nodes are local and remote media playing devices. The corresponding SMIL engines and methods are also provided. The present invention enables the playing of SMIL based multimedia contents on a set of PvC devices, which can be dynamically configured as a new multimedia terminal on demand.