Format

Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (Generic)

Summary

Name: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (Generic)
Identifiers: PUID: fmt/205
Format type: Text (Mark-up)
Description: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language is a World Wide Web Consortium recommended Extensible Markup Language (XML) markup language to describe multimedia presentations. It defines markup for timing, layout, animations, visual transitions, media embedding and others. SMIL allows presenting media items such as text, images, video, audio, links to other SMIL presentations, and files from multiple web servers. SMIL markup is written in XML, and has similarities to HTML. This is the generic entry for this file format which most commonly is denoted with the .smil extension. It is likely that the truncated .smi extension refers specifically to the metadata files accompanying the corresponding images taken by Sony digital cameras.
Format encoding: Text
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronized_Multimedia_Integration_Language https://www.w3.org/TR/SMIL3/ http://www.telestream.net/pdfs/app-notes/app_Camera_Ingest.pdf
File extensions: smil, smi
Submitted by: Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Has priority over

Is subtype of

Description: BOF, offset 0-3, magic bytes:'<?xml version=("|')1.0("|'){20-256}<smil EOF, offset 0-3, magic bytes: </smil>
Provenance: 11/2024(v.120)- variable in the BOF byte sequence expanded from 20-86 to 20-256 to allow for a DOCTYPE. Submitted by Archives New Zealand and Brigham Young University.

Min Frag Length: Absolute from BOF
Offset: 0
Max offset: 3
Byte Sequence: 3C3F786D6C2076657273696F6E3D(22|27)312E30(22|27){20-256}3C736D696C
Endianness: None