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The AMBULANT Open SMIL Player is an open-source media player with support for SMIL 2.1. The current AMBULANT release provides namespace-based support for the SMIL Language, Extended Mobile, Mobile, and Basic profiles. The current release also provides full backward compatibility with SMIL 2.0.

AMBULANT is intended for researchers and developers who want an source-code player upon which they can build higher-level systems solutions for authoring and content integration, or within which they can add new or extended support for networking and media transport components.

The AMBULANT player may also be used as a complete, multi-platform media player for applications that do not need support for closed, proprietary media formats. If you want to use AMBULANT as a media player, please keep in mind that licensing issues prevent us from providing support for RealMedia or WindowsMedia proprietary formats in this release of AMBULANT.

The AMBULANT SMIL Player is provided in two formats: an open source distribution that can be built on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows systems, and a set of convenience installers that have been pre-built for various platforms. Please pick the appropriate link in the following table to select the desired AMBULANT distribution.

All versions of AMBULANT are covered by a Lesser GNU Public License (LGPL).

February 2007
The AMBULANT/1.8 Player was released. This version is an incremental maintenance release with numerous SMIL language implementation fixes. Other news: support for embedding and extending Ambulant has been significantly improved; this version contains initial support for Windows Vista and for Nokia 770/800 devices; Gtk and Qt can both be used as Linux UI toolkits; networked media support has been improved; FFMPEG video support has been greatly improved; HTML rendering support has been improved. (Click here for details.)

December 2006
The SMIL 3.0 first pubic draft was released. This specification provides a glimps of the future of AMBULANT. New proposed SMIL 3.0 functionality will be incrementally integrated into AMBULANT starting with the AMBULANT 2.0 release in May, 2007.

Users or organizations who are interested in more direct participation can join the AMBULANT Open SMIL Player team by sending an expression of interest to: Ambulant Feedback at CWI. We are interested in partners with prior SMIL experience or with media codec or networking protocol experience.

The AMBULANT team wants to hear from you: we want to know why you are here and what you want from the Ambulant player. This information will be used to help us build a better picture of who uses SMIL and why. Let us know if you want to hear back from us (or if you DON'T want to hear back from members of the development team). And don't worry, we're too busy with various aspects of building the planet's best open-source SMIL player to send you spam or even to resell your e-mail address. (We'll leave all of that to other media player makers.) Please, help us help you!

Please take a moment to share your experiences with us, either by subscribing to the general AMBULANT User's mailing list or via the AMBULANT Feedback private line to our developers. Thanks!

If you simply want to remain informed about AMBULANT developments, join the AMBULANT Announce mailing list; this is a (very!) low-volume list that posts major announcements regarding the status of the Ambulant project.

If you find bugs in the Ambuant player, please file a bug report (at our Source Forge site).

The AMBULANT Player project is being made possible by a grant from the NLnet Foundation. NLnet funds open-source projects that stimulate the development of advanced networking applications and protocols on open platforms. The project is also supported by CWI: The Center for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam.