This simple tutorial is intended to help you understand how to
take advantage of the capabilities of XMT-O to create MPEG-4
presentations.
MPEG-4 is a new multimedia standard for coding and composing
audio, video, graphics, text, etc. into a presentation scene with
user interactivity. MPEG-4 coding treats a scene as a collection
of media objects each of which is individually coded, and can
be dynamically updated.
XMT-O is a high-level textual descriptions of MPEG-4 content.
It is authored in the XMT (Extensible MPEG-4 Textual Format in
XML) standard. The high-level format XMT-O, based on the SMIL
2.0 syntax and semantics, provides a comprehensive authoring facilities
utilizing MPEG-4 Systems, including graphics, animation, and user
interaction.
Each exercise will build on the previous exercise. The following
illustration depicts the final presentation you will create it in
the exercises that follow.