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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.

What’s New:
Version 1.8:

• Embedding and extending Ambulant has become a lot easier: the Python interfaces have been enhanced, examples are provided, the API documentation has been updated and embedding now also works on Windows.
• The Nokia 770 and 800 are supported.
• Gtk can be used as the GUI toolkit for Linux, in addition
  to Qt.
• Fullscreen mode has been added.
• FFMPEG video rendering has greatly improved.
• QuickTime video rendering has improved.
• Support for SMIL transitions has been extended (but it is still
  not complete).
• RTSP support has been improved.
• HTML rendering is much smoother when displaying different sections of the same HTML file (such as for Daisy books).
• Very long uences no longer load all data in advance.
• pause_display now works.
• inBounds, outOfBounds, focusIn and focusOut events now work.
• accessKey works.

Developer’s website: CWI Ambulant Project