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SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) got updated last in 2008, does anyone know if there are better protocol to follow when it comes to synchronizing multi-media files?

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SMIL has no natural competitors, so any other solution would rely on scripting. It has support in ePub readers like Azardi as well as most phones with MMS support. The Timed Text, Media Fragments, and Media Ontology specifications address captioning, bookmarking, and indexing audio/video content respectively. No successor for SMIL has been formulated outside of the Timesheets draft, which is a resurrection of the XHTML+SMIL proposal that became HTML+TIME in IE and has a JavaScript implementation in timesheets.js.

In terms of specifications, it's part of both ePub3 and the Messaging API used in Firefox OS.

In terms of tooling, it's integrated into the Aeneas and tobi projects to sync audio and video.

In terms of software, it's integrated with JavaScript and RS-232 and subtitle codecs.

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    Is this still relevant today in 2015? SMIL looks dead. I'm working on a project that sends and receives MMS and we are required to use SMIL. Development resources for it are very sparse. Many of the links I find are dead. – MikeJansen Aug 05 '15 at 17:49
  • @MikeJansen In 2015, it's part of both [ePub3](http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/SMIL) and the [Messaging API](http://www.w3.org/TR/messaging/) used in [Firefox OS](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MozMmsMessage/smil). – Paul Sweatte Aug 05 '15 at 18:24
  • @MikeJansen As far as resource availability, a basic site search (smil multimedia site:linkedin.com) returns more than a few results. – Paul Sweatte Aug 05 '15 at 18:32